Tracklist: She’s Got a Way You Can Make Me Free Everybody Loves You Now Why Judy Why Falling of the Rain Turn Around You Look So Good to Me Tomorrow Is Today Nocturne Got to Begin Again Cold Spring Harbor is a flawed classic; I fell in love with it at first listen many years ago. It’s a classic but it was not the way Billy Joel had intended, imagine how good it could have been? When I first saw this album I sneered, yes sneered. As I have lived with this classic Billy Joel ge

There are times when I begin to realise I might be getting quite old, those mornings when it’s a struggle to put on my socks, when I make a cultural reference and no-one under the age of 40 gets it, when I realise many of the people I work with weren’t born when I finished Uni but I have now realised I am getting really old because Peter Hook, one of my musical heroes, is going to perform at Manchester Academy next year to celebrate 50 years in music, how on earth did that ha

Wolf Alice Sunflower Bean Bria Salmena This wasn’t my first time seeing Wolf Alice, I’ve been buying their albums for years, have seen them live several times before and come to know them as real contenders who felt ready to step up but this gig was something different for them, quite simply put it felt like their graduation into the big league. They have been knocking at the door for quite a while but, when I reviewed their new album, 'The Clearing', for this site earlier t

So it’s that time of year again and, after resisting it for many years, Ash have finally succumbed to the Christmas single mania, Tim Wheeler himself is no stranger to Christmas music but this is the first time Ash as a band have dipped their toes in the water. For some reason lots of brilliant artists over the years have felt the need to release Christmas singles with various degree of success and some abject failures I’ve never fully understood the appeal myself but I am a

Tracklist: Porcelain Warrior     Major Threat     Pretty Things     Secrets     Goldmine     Part Of You     You Love It When     Oblivion  February Ripe Fruit Rots and Falls Californian duo, Izzie Clark and E Scarlett Levinson, better known as chokecherry, released their debut album on the 14 th  of November via Fearless Records, 3 Songs found out about it being out and I gave it a listen, I’m really glad I did. There is no better feeling in music than discovering a great

Ash Coach Party This wasn’t my first time seeing Ash live but it was my first time at this venue and the first time I was going to get to see Ash play their new album, 'Ad Astra', which I reviewed for this site and was very impressed with. It does feel like Ash are in danger of turning into Bod Dylan from a touring perspective, this was one of multiple dates this year (including supporting the Darkness)  finishing in mid-December in Belfast, they take a brief break, then are

Lamb Of God have released “Parasocial Christ”, a relentless three-minute assault that once again pairs the Richmond metal titans with longtime producer Josh Wilbur. The song arrives alongside a stark, desaturated video directed by Jon Vulpine, whose unsettling visual style mirrors the track’s intensity as it captures a man’s descent into madness. “The Information Age has birthed the attention economy, an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars anchored in keeping eyeba

Tracklist: 1. That Same Place 2. Where the Flowers Never Grow 3. Everybody Knows 4. So Low 5. For You 6. All Out 7. Ritual 8. When You're Gone 9. The Sky Behind The Rain 10. The Silence 11. Eyes 12. Cure Me 13. Wave 14. My Paradise On November 14th, Metalcore stalwarts The Devil Wears Prada released their ninth album 'Flowers' via Solid State Records. First comes 'That Same Place', a minute long intro with stripped back piano and strings which are absolutely beautiful, and it

James have long been one of the best bands the UK have produced, their live performances are a joy to behold and they’ve had something of a renaissance over the last few years in term of the quality of their new output so it’s interesting timing that they have decided to release their definitive best of now, I hope this doesn’t mean no more new music! The problem with definitive best of records is that it always gives the die hard fans something to argue about, why isn’t thei

UK electronicore heavyweights,  Cabin Boy Jumped Ship , are back, and they're louder than ever. After three years of silence, the band erupts with a brand-new single that hits harder than a mosh pit in full swing. Chemicals blends the intensity of metalcore with the pulse of EDM, bringing together crushing riffs, enormous vocals and a bridge that will be stuck in your head for days. Maintaining that distinctive Cabin Boy Jumped Ship sound while nodding to modern metal artist