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Interview: Harry Cody, Shotgun Messiah

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SKINT...BUT HAPPY This month sees the release of SHOTGUN MESSIAH's second album, the aptly titled Second Coming , and a mighty f...
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Album Review: Iron Maiden, "The Final Frontier"

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You could never accuse Iron Maiden of selling out. So loyal are they to their roots and riff structures that they've taken the...
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Preview: Ornette Coleman, Japan, 2006

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Some jazz legends have a big impact at the time, but as the years pass their influence gradually diminishes until it is forgotten. Th...
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Album Review: Liquid Jesus, "Pour In The Sky"

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From the opening track Intro which has opera singers' ethereal voices floating over a hypnotic chant and digeridoos, it is obvious ...
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The True Story of U2’s Shockingly Bad “Songs of Innocence” Cover Image

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You will have heard by now that U2’s latest album was forced on the public by being made a compulsory download on iTunes, and that it s...
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Album Review: Black Mountain "Wilderness Heart"

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Canadian five-piece Black Mountain play bluesy rock that veers from a hard and heavy (but always warmly fuzzy) sound to something mor...
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INTERVIEW: WAYNE HUSSEY, THE MISSION

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 MISSION ACCOMPLISHED "I am a bit of an old fogey," Wayne Hussey tells me proudly. Surely, Wayne, you cannot be ser...
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Revenge Recommends: "Infected" by The THE

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Back in 1986, when The THE released their second album  Infected , they little realized that the deadly Ebola virus would be sweeping the w...
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Album Review: U2 "All That You Can't Leave Behind"

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Radiohead get round their songwriting poverty by developing initially startling soundscapes that simply dont belong on a rock record....
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Album Review: Edwyn Collins, "Losing Sleep"

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Back in the day – the day being the early 1980s – Edwyn Collins and his then band Orange Juice practically invented the indie guitar po...
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Quote: James Dean Bradfield on "Sons and Fascination"

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Welsh guitar wizard James Dean Bradfield on one of his favourite albums, Simple Minds' 1981 classic  Sons and Fascination : ...
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New Release: "Doom Philosophy" by Sorrow's Path

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Most metal is in too much of a hurry to get where it's going, which can make it a bit irritating. Not so doom metal, which is what it is...
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Interview: Scott Ian & John Bush, Anthrax

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A THOUSAND POINTS OF NOISE Anthrax have been through a turbulent time lately, what with the departure of singer Joey Belladonna....
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Song by Song: "The Joshua Tree" by U2

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The Joshua Tree was U2's most important album. It marks the point at which they became a global brand as big as The Beatles or The...
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Album Review: Smashing Pumpkins, "Siamese Dream"

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The Pumpkins are never going to be as good as Nirvana. They're already much better. This album is a seamless lava flow of burni...
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Live Review: Jethro Tull, Portsmouth Guildhall, 19th May 1990

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 THE ENDLESS ENIGMA The enigma of Jethro Tull is captured in the opening moments of their show. As an introductory tape of a cla...
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Album Review: Laibach, "Spectre"

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There have always been doubts about just who Laibach are and what they are up to. First who are they? The band is a collective so it is...
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