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Watching a band you love level up in front of a packed venue is one of the best experiences a music fan can have. Hatton Manor – the guitar-vocal duo now expanded to a trio with the addition of brand new drummer James Purvis – did exactly that at Komedia Read more…
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Duff McKagan. Guns N’ Roses. Velvet Revolver. These are all names familiar to rock fans worldwide. But behind the music, Duff McKagan struggled to stay afloat and alive even as he stood at the peak of rock bass stardom.
Fortunately, Duff has kept not only rocking, but also living. His story – chronicled in his autobiography It’s So Easy (And Other Lies) and a new accompanying DVD – is seriously inspiring. Duff also has much to teach, many lessons to pass on to any rock aficionados who are willing to listen.
Here are five things you’ll learn from Duff McKagan… Read more…
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Over the past thirty-two years, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have carved a singular swathe through the musical jungle, strutting and preening like one of a kind wildlife. Unlike the majority of musicians so desperate to give off an air of idiosyncrasy, studiously cultivating an image in line with the trends of the times, the Chilis more than look the part. They walk the walk –and that is an undeniable fact Read more…
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According to modern cultural commentators, our society is slowly losing its capacity for empathy. The potential causes range from capitalistic money-chasing to isolating smartphone bubbles – but regardless of the reasons why, the solution is the same. There isn’t one. We’re sick of it all, but we don’t know what else to do but grin and bear it.
As their name makes clear, Nahko and Medicine For The People are well aware that countless individuals worldwide desperately want to get up, get better, and get on with life. Cue HOKA, an album that chronicles a lifelong struggle with trauma and its consequences – and a series of personal victories that fuel one of the most emotive releases you’re going to hear this year Read more…
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Camden High Street is a busy place at the best of times. Bargain hunters crowd its world-famous market; tourists take selfies in front of outlandish shopfronts; alternative fashionistas strut around in their latest cutting-edge purchases.
Add in Camden Rocks, a twenty-venue, two-hundred-band music festival stretching from the vicinity of the Roundhouse down to Mornington Crescent, and you’re talking the coolest kind of chaos imaginable Read more…
With their new album Celebrate (reviewed in full on TMMP here), Tiny Moving Parts are flying the flag for manically complex, yet still emotionally evocative rock. With that in mind, I chatted to TMP vocalist/guitarist Dylan Mattheisen about Celebrate, motivation, golf, and more… Read more…
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The intertwined histories of rock and metal are littered with countless thousands of bands proclaiming their own uniqueness. Most of them were (and many are) full of shit. Volbeat are not.
Before ex-Anthrax axe maestro Rob Caggiano joined Volbeat’s ranks while producing 2013’s Outlaw Gentlemen And Shady Ladies, Volbeat were already an established and undeniably idiosyncratic act. That now-three-year-old album saw Volbeat reinvigorated, juiced up like never before, ready and willing to play with all the toys they could get their hands on. Now, with Seal The Deal And Let’s Boogie, it’s time to see what Volbeat MkII have hidden up their sleeves Read more…
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Interviewing musicians can be a tricky business – especially when you know they’ve sat across from countless others before you and been subjected to endless barrages of identical questions. For ex-Anthrax and current Volbeat guitarist Rob Caggiano, who left the former on good terms to pursue his own path and joined the latter after taking on production duties for 2013’s Outlaw Gentlemen And Shady Ladies and finding that all-important chemistry sparking in the studio, that’s meant explaining the above over and over again. After touching briefly on what I referred to as “the Anthrax question,” Rob proved a fascinating and engaging conversationalist… Read more…
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Innovative instrumental guitarists are a rare breed. Most still stick to recycling Satriani licks over stock-issue backing tracks. The standard has been set and met many times, but rarely exceeded.
Yossi Sassi is a notable exception. This guy has mastered many stringed instruments, the electric guitar being just one – and he’s even masterminded the creation of an entirely new instrument, the bouzoukitara – half guitar, half bouzouki. In short, Yossi Sassi is pretty much a one-man orchestra.
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UK: get ready for an Australian invasion. With their new album Hoops, The Rubens are patiently strutting their way toward world domination – and any blues- and soul-oriented rock fans whose ears get bent by those eleven tracks are likely to find themselves swept away.
Produced by a behind-the-board team boasting Grammy wins and collaborations with Lana Del Rey, Coldplay, and The Strokes, it’s little surprise that Hoops sounds as big, flavourful, and vital as it does. Check out my full review here, and read on for an in-depth chat with The Rubens… Read more…