Category: hard rock
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Artist Spotlight: This is Alice Merton.
Pilfering through the roster of bolstering rock from last summer to this years’, one song lurched out from the rest. A real cream of the crop, the plastering bassline-drum combo – not too dissimilar from Manson’s Beautiful People lore – and the angelic trepidation with the vocals drew me in to a pretty stalwart chorus.…
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Your Weekly Mixtape #1 (April 17 2022)
Join an eclectic mix of the new and extraordinary in the very best of rock, funk and jazz fusion. Interpol’s Toni sees their return to music since their Marauder in 2018. While the likes of new-kid-on-the-block lostboy keeps up momentum with lust-for-life Maple and Arcade Fire‘s double header of The Lightning I, II hails a…
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Queens of the Stone Age: “…Like Clockwork” – Your Album Review… A Stellar Sixth
Dark and haunting, their sixth album is an intoxicating mix of simmering riffs and blazing eruptions that encapsulate a record perfect from start to finish. In 2000, QOFTSA were flying high with Rated R. A blistering rock-classic album with The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret and Monsters In The Parasol, it combines all of…
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John Frusciante’s Welcoming Return… and Red Hot Chilli Peppers – “Unlimited Love”
A healthy detox, Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ compulsive search for revitalisation brings a new challenging frontier for the group. Not exactly Red Hot as they wished, but albeit a lukewarm welcoming. //It’s slowly becoming nigh possible to produce a studio album nowadays without its usual lathering of swampy filler and even though this Rubin-enhanced 17-track…
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Let’s Talk: The “Downfall” of Machine Gun Kelly – mainstream sellout
So, it’s taken me a while to get around to this one. After MGK’s genre-defining moment of Tickets to my Downfall went platinum back in 2020, I was marginally excited for its follow-up. Embellished, new and pivotal in the course of pop-punk, Tickets to my Downfall was a solid album upon release. Sparked by the…
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