Reviews The big review: Wacken 2024Kommen sie, bitte, und listen to metal: Architects, Amon Amarth, Jesus Piece, Korn, Scorpions and tons more descend on Europe’s heaviest party!
Features 10 bands you can’t miss at Bloodstock 2024From rising metal powerhouses Green Lung to Brit hardcore upstarts Grove Street and doom trap trailblazer Mimi Barks, there’s far more to Bloodstock than just massive headliners Opeth, Architects and Amon Amarth. Here are our picks from the undercard to get you fired up for one of the heaviest weekends of the year…
News Hear Filth Is Eternal’s new cover of Violet by HoleListen to Filth Is Eternal share their take on Hole’s “f*cking brilliant and inspiring” Live Through This classic Violet.
Reviews Album review: JPEGMAFIA – I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOUThe surprise release of JPEGMAFIA’s brilliant fifth album only means that the world is even less ready for what the Brooklyn hip-hop agitator is throwing out here…
The Cover Story Mothica: “When you’ve been through so much and gone through so many rock bottoms, you start to think, ‘Nothing can hurt me now’”After taking the ‘backwards’ route into music, McKenzie Ellis – aka Mothica – has become one of the most talked-about names in alt. pop. Ahead of her new album Kissing Death she looks back on her strange journey so far, why she won’t be defined by the trauma of her past, and how she seeks to heal a new generation of fans…
News Vended promise “aggression and emotion” on newly-announced debut albumVended will release their self-titled debut album in September, and they boldly describe it as “the first step” towards world domination…
Features Orange Goblin: “My kidney went like George Best’s. The first tour sober was great!”As Brit stoner-metal legends Orange Goblin roar back into action with their first new music in six years, singer Ben Ward reflects on longevity, being called the new Motörhead, and how the clarity of quitting the booze fuelled the excellent Science, Not Fiction…
News Courtney Love to guest on the rock episode of new Never Mind The BuzzcocksThe guests for the fourth series of Never Mind The Buzzcocks have been announced, with Courtney Love stepping in for the rock episode.
Reviews The big review: 2000trees festival 2024These woods are lovely, dark and deep, full of bands that rock and tales to keep, so we went another weekend without much sleep to bring you all the highlights down at Upcote Farm for 2000trees…
Features Sing-alongs, stretching and… scrubbing?! Life on the road with Frank IeroFrank looks back over some of his wildest memories on tour – from the time his tooth “exploded in my head”, to having to pee in the grim loos at CBGBs, to performing outside a hot dog stand…
Reviews Album review: SOFT PLAY – HEAVY JELLYTunbridge Wells duo SOFT PLAY return, renamed and reinvigorated, on irrepressible fourth album HEAVY JELLY…
Features Crawlers: “It’s healing to stand onstage and see kids taking in all our vulnerable moments”Holly Minto was always destined to be a star. Having written their first songs as a kid, and tried for a life in the theatre, with Crawlers, they’ve finally found the vehicle to help conquer the world, and connect with outsiders everywhere…
Reviews The big review: Outbreak Fest 2024Okay cowards, let’s party! As Europe’s finest hardcore gathering blasted into the great outdoors, we headed back to Manchester to bust guts with every chaotic pit and lung-exploding sing-along of Outbreak 2024…
Reviews The big review: Glastonbury Festival 2024K! venture down to Worthy Farm again, and though broadly occupied by pop artists across its main stages this year, we spend the weekend getting dust in our eyebrows and tracking down all things heavy and alt. at the biggest fest of the summer…
Features Why you need unpeople in your life: “I’ve never been scared that a crowd is gonna hate us”In the midst of a busy summer of festivals, we grabbed unpeople’s Jake Crawford and Meg Mash and got them to tell us all about how they’re one of alternative music’s best new bands…
News See Geezer Butler join Foo Fighters onstage in Birmingham to perform ParanoidAt the final night of Foo Fighters’ UK tour in Birmingham, the band brought out Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler to play Paranoid…