G,day pilgrims, it’s been quite a year so far what with NLEE doing so amazingly well in the charts and all of those beautiful diehard Damnedfans who…
Author: John Robb
BOB MOULD BOX SET DISTORTION: 1989-2019 IS RESCHEDULED TO COME OUT OCTOBER 23 UPCOMING ALBUM BLUE HEARTS ARRIVES FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25 VIA MERGE RECORDS The massive Bob…
The Chocolate Watchband: Exclusive in-depth Interview Louder Than War is proud to present this exclusive in-depth interview, conducted by Nathan Whittle, with the genuinely legendary psych-garage originals.…
BOOK NOW: 0161 832 1111 Oxford Road // Manchester // M13 9PR MOOSE BLOOD SATURDAY 3RD MARCH 2018 MANCHESTER ACADEMY Currently hard at work recording…
Acclaimed Joy Division play “New Dawn Fades” to tour the UK in 2016. Tickets and details from here Acclaimed production “New Dawn Fades – A Play About…
Girls In Hawaii, whose album, 'Everest', has just been released on Naïve Records, have just confirmed a trio of UK dates for November. The Belgian sextet, who…
BAND ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES WITH MUMFORD AND SONS AND PHOENIX The Vaccines have released a new track in anticipation of their upcoming North American tour…
PERFORMING DEBUT ALBUM ‘LIFE’ IN ITS ENTIRETY PLUS ALL THE GREATEST HITS Following a summer of festival appearances Inspiral Carpets have announced that they are performing their…
John Robb retraces the twists and turns of the legendary Boston band, The Pixies. Few bands have become as loved as The Pixies. John Robb examines the…
They never really were ‘cool as fuck’ but then that was the joke they were playing on themselves. Oldham¹s biggest ever band – The Inspiral Carpets never…
Defying the laws of rock 'n' roll gravity, The Red Hot Chili Peppers find themselves in 2003 as the biggest group in the world. This is a…
John Robb chews the fat with the voice of the reformed Happy Mondays Shaun Ryder, the accidental bard of Salford and the front-man of the most off…
From Dublin to London via Berlin, My Bloody Valentine have taken the scenic route to success. John Robb retraces their footsteps on the way to becoming…
The words, ‘hotly anticipated’ are much overused in the music industry but one glance at the forum pages for The Courteeners would justify that term in relation…
Mashing the stage in a blur of quiffs, tatts, Day-Glo fifties billy gear, Horrorpops are an amazing blur of great pop tunes, rockabilly style and punk rock…
A book about Primal Scream was always going to be a right old romp. The band themselves literally wrote the story as they went along; drugs, revolution,…
Boston’s Dropkick Murphys are worthy of anyone’s attention argues John Robb with the aid of lead singer Ken Casey. Listening to any Murphys long player you have…