Bruce Dickinson, who may be more familiar as the frontman of Iron Maiden or as a radio Rock DJ, has created a solo album to follow on from 2002’s The Chemical Wedding (also re-released this week on Sanctuary). The sound will be familiar to all devotees of Iron Maiden as it is in the mould […]

ATD’s unconventional and uncompromisingly honest hip hop is refreshingly based around the vocals and uncluttered by the detritus of too long spent in the studio obsessing. Patrick is (at least semi-) autobiographical and about being young and in a bad scene in North Wales. By contrast there is the charmingly low tech track with the […]

The 2D heroes return

Carlos Niño is one busy guy; not only does this mini-album come just six months after the release of Ammoncontact’s One In An Infinity Of Ways album but it comes out on the same day as the first single from another of his projects Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio And his partner […]

Miocene have announced that their bassist, Alex, has left the band. No reason has been given for his departure by him or the band. A possible stand-in has already been located and the band will attempt to continue on with upcoming tour dates.
Nothing is certain as yet though and Miocene are welcoming demo submissions from […]

The American moral majority are up in arms this week after System Of A Down slipped an unscripted “fuck” into a performance of sweary new single BYOB on Saturday Night Live.
The show’s broadcasters NBC had sanctioned five uses of the word in the performance but frontman Serj Tankian slipped in a sixth. Reports that this […]

The Line-up Jim Knights (vocals, guitars, synths, programming), Scarlet (bass, synths, Programming).
The History The band formed in 2000 by ex-members of Elementary 4 Jim Knights and Lee Kinrade with bassist Scarlet. They toured the UK extensively picking up high profile support slots with bands like The Damned, The Faint, Lolita Storm and Rachel Stamp and […]

The band best known for providing the theme tune to The Sopranos have been presenting their very different take on country music since 1997. Now readying their 4th album, Outlaw, this single finds itself the first to be released from it.
Musically it sounds like it could have been written by Johnny Cash and lyrically, well, […]

Jazz-punk. Yeah, I can almost hear your thought process. Now shut up. Big Strides’ frontman Marcus O’Neill sums it up perfectly when he says, “we don’t want to be a rock band that shuts out the influence of all the great old time stuff, so we have to stand firm. Jazz and blues aren’t soft, […]