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Category: Features
2021’s Best Albums #18 W.H. Lung – Vanities
Mancunians named after local Chinese supermarket swap prog rock for rave after summering in Todmorden. Results: ecstatic. Read the full … More
Pip Blom – Welcome Break review
From Amsterdam, Pip Blom’s British naturalisation would seem to be well on the way to being complete. Their follow up … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #22 Primal Scream – Loaded
Released : 1990 For it’s punters – half a million plus sweaty, goggle eyed, lockjawed teenagers in disused buildings up … More
Idles – Crawler review
The music industry’s hype cycle is such a transient phenomenon, who can tell whether anyone is trying to genuinely appraise … More
Echo and The Bunnymen – Crocodiles, Heaven Up Here, Porcupine & Ocean Rain reissues review
The problem with the gold old days – when everything was better, wasn’t it – is that everyone’s start and … More
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – Sticky review
At five seven, with red hair and a surface area that’s now more tattoo than skin, Frank Carter you’d say … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #23 Goldie – Angel
Released : 1995 Extract from the Weekender piece on Timeless, originally published in 2018: Like all good urban legends, the … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #24 Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name
Released : 1992 It may surprise people to know that the art of whataboutery – or the practice of attempting … More
La Luz – La Luz review
Come to LA they said. Play some rock n’ roll they said. Originally formed in Seattle, La Luz’s singer Shana … More