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Acclaimed north-east artist Amelia Coburn has announced her second album, Myself and Other Monsters, due to arrive on 5th March 2027, alongside new single I Just Want To Say. @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social louderthanwar.com/amelia-cobur...
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Edged in Blue: A Rock’n’Roll Odyssey with Rory Gallagher by Dónal Gallagher – Book Review “…an informative, personal and affectionate biography has arrived to keep the flame alive.” @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social #rorygallagher louderthanwar.com/edged-in-blu...
Edged in Blue: A Rock’n’Roll Odyssey with Rory Gallagher
This is the story of the ‘greatest guitarist you’ve never heard of’, Ireland’s original rock star, the legendary Rory Gallagher.
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Steve Hill's Friday Night Fever charts his mission, post pandemic, to attend 25 Half Man Half Biscuit gigs around the UK… @iainkey.bsky.social reviews @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @routebooks.bsky.social louderthanwar.com/friday-night...
Friday Night Fever Steve Hill
Steve Hill's Friday Night Fever charts his mission, post pandemic, to attend 25 Half Man Half Biscuit gigs around the UK…
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The Wonder Stuff/Inspiral Carpets : Manchester : Live Review ‘A night of classic indie from two bands born out of parallel nineties scenes when indie ruled the earth yet still hungry enough to feel much more than nostalgia for an age yet to come.’ louderthanwar.com/the-wonder-s...
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The Wonder Stuff and Inspiral Carpets breathe life into the old and new
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Jamie T – Ghosts (100 Days of Morning): Album Review louderthanwar.com/jamie-t-ghos... @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @wayneafcarey.bsky.social @nigelcarruk.bsky.social
Jamie T - Ghosts (100 Days of Morning): Album Review
Sat in the doldrums of self psychoanalysis, Jamie T turned to the sounds of a youthfully free speaking Paul Weller. Ghosts might not be real, but try and
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Pain of Truth: Pain of Truth – Album Review louderthanwar.com/pain-of-trut... @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @wayneafcarey.bsky.social @nigelcarruk.bsky.social
Pain of Truth: Pain of Truth - Album Review
.."it must be beautifully brutal in a live setting: the wall of detuned noise they create, a near physical mass, a movable object."
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Mi von Ahn: Yet all drifts – Single Review louderthanwar.com/mi-von-ahn-y... @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @wayneafcarey.bsky.social @nigelcarruk.bsky.social
Mi von Ahn: Yet all drifts - Single Review
Mi von Ahn has announced her third album, Delta Veins, arriving November 6th, and released the hazey new single, Yet All Drifts. A silky dreampop offering as comparable to Mazzy Star as it is the likes of Portishead and Alison’s Halo, the track brings shogaze tendencies and a beautiful sense of melancholy.
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Things We Didn’t Know: Summer 2026 - high-quality new bands and inexpensive London shows are all featured here in a round-up on what's been happening recently in East London louderthanwar.com/things-we-di... #louderthanwar @keithgoldhanger.bsky.social
Things We Didn’t Know: Summer 2026
High quality new bands and inexpensive London shows are all featured here in a round up on what's been happening recently in East London
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Johnny Marr ‘The Age Of Everything’ Album Review ‘the Mancunian icon confronts modern malaise, fractured times and the shifting sands of the now with restless, life-affirming rock ’n’ roll with an added post punk inventiveness.’ louderthanwar.com/johnny-marr-...
Johnny Marr ‘The Age Of Everything’ Album Review
Johnny Marr ‘The Age Of Everything’ Album Review
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Meryl Streek: Stories They Don’t Teach You At School – Review – ALBUM OF THE WEEK! louderthanwar.com/meryl-streek... @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @wayneafcarey.bsky.social @nigelcarruk.bsky.social
Meryl Streek: Stories They Don't Teach You At School - Review - ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Three albums in after this one and Meryl is not letting it lie down. He's covered corrupt landlords, child death on 796, nightclub nightmares, dodgy
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Jim Lea’s How Does It Feel is the fourth and final chapter in the Slade autobiography series. Richard Hougton reviews… @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @omnibuspress.bsky.social louderthanwar.com/how-does-it-...
How Does it Feel?: Slade and Beyond by Jim Lea - Book Review
How Does It Feel is the fourth and final chapter in the Slade autobiography series..........................
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Watch This! The End post stunning retro looking video of the year. Great video of retro Manchester pop culture landmarks accompanies brilliant song from new band louderthanwar.com/watch-this-t...
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The End : New Manchester band post video of the year!
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Another evening well spent
louderthanwar.com@louderthanwar.bsky.social · 6d agoAdult DVD: Fighting Cocks, Kingston – Live Review @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social | @stevemorgan68.bsky.social “Big, bouncing, bleepy beats and slyly seductive lyrics make Adult DVD one of the live circuit’s most compelling acts.“ louderthanwar.com/adult-dvd-fi...
The K's, Tom A Smith, The Wran, Marie Franc, Teleshopping + more www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Sal...
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Adult DVD: Fighting Cocks, Kingston – Live Review @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social | @stevemorgan68.bsky.social “Big, bouncing, bleepy beats and slyly seductive lyrics make Adult DVD one of the live circuit’s most compelling acts.“ louderthanwar.com/adult-dvd-fi...
Adult DVD: Fighting Cocks, Kingston - Live Review
Adult DVD Fighting Cocks Kingston September 29th 2026 Big, bouncing, bleepy beats and slyly seductive lyrics make Adult DVD one of the live circuit’s Big beats and slyly seductive lyrics make Adult DV...
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Watch This! The End post stunning retro looking video of the year. Great video of retro Manchester pop culture landmarks accompanies brilliant song from new band louderthanwar.com/watch-this-t...
The End
The End : New Manchester band post video of the year!
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Blokeacola: Boastcard – Album Review louderthanwar.com/blokeacola-b... @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @nigelcarruk.bsky.social @wayneafcarey.bsky.social @blokeacola.bsky.social
Blokeacola: Boastcard - Album Review
Musical subtlety and lyrical intelligence underlie each of these perfectly formed tracks. Robin Boardman listens to Boastcard for LTW.
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Tender Youth: Turning Torso – Album Review louderthanwar.com/tender-youth... @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @nigelcarruk.bsky.social @wayneafcarey.bsky.social
Tender Youth: Turning Torso - Album Review
Tender Youth return with their sophomore album, Turning Torso. The Copenhagen-based four-piece have built a reputation for intense, evocative and energetic live performances, touring extensively across Europe while developing a physical, theatrical strain of art rock that thrives on tension and experimentation. On Turning Torso, the band push that sound into unfamiliar territory, abandoning the guitar almost entirely in favour of violin, and opening up a new palette of distortion, texture and rhythmic possibility.
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Grauzone Festival adds Mareux, Marissa Nadler, Phase Fatale and more for 2027 Dutch post punk fest louderthanwar.com/grauzone-fes...
Grauzone Festival Announces bill
Grauzone Festival Announces bill
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Beyond The Music music showcase event heads to Salford next week with GANS, The Slow Readers Club and ALT BLK ERA and panels and interviews louderthanwar.com/beyond-the-m...
Beyond The Music
Beyond The Music returns for its third edition from October 6–9, moving to MediaCity in Salford
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Man/ Woman/ Chainsaw: Brudenell Social Club – Live Review @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social #manwomanchainsaw “On stage chemistry is important, and they certainly have those ‘last gang in town’ vibes.“ louderthanwar.com/man-woman-ch...
Man/ Woman/ Chainsaw: Brudenell Social Club - Live Review
Man/ Woman/ Chainsaw sound fresh and inspired at the Brudenell Social Club. Andy Brown jumps on the cannonball for Louder Than War.
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This link just proves to all DJs what an AMAZING show-opener 'Praxis Makes Perfect' by the Cuban Boys feat. Tony Wilson makes.
Iain Key@iainkey.bsky.social · 2w agoThis weekends LTW Editor's Choice Show for @louderthanwar.bsky.social is now on Mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/louderthanwa...
The Cheap Thrills: Rough Trade East, London – Live Review “These celebratory, feel-good songs capture a rare sense of authentic joy and emotion that it can be argued are even stronger than what we already have available out there.“ louderthanwar.com/the-cheap-th...
The Cheap Thrills: Rough Trade East, London - Live Review
To coincide with the release of their debut album, The Cheap Thrills play a show inside the Rough Trade East record shop in East London.
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Playlist for this weekends LTW Editor's Choice Show featuring tracks selected by Robert Plummer, Iain Key, Nathan Whittle, Ged Babey and Iain Key Tune in via the app, website or on Mixcloud from 11am
Danny and the Dressmakers : Meanwhile Gardens, London – Live Review @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social "a magnificent half an hour that was worth waiting over forty years to see live and hearing what some of us would call the band’s ‘big hit’" louderthanwar.com/danny-and-th...
Danny and the Dressmakers : London - Live Review
Danny and the Dressmakers play live for the first time in over fourty years. Keith Golhanger reports from West Lonon.
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Her Country: How Women Reclaimed Country Music by Marissa R. Moss @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social "Nashville-based music journalist Marissa R. Moss examines the sexist culture of the American country music industry" louderthanwar.com/her-country-...
Her Country by Marissa R. Moss – Book Review
How Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris and Micky Guyton successfully challenged the sexist culture of the American country music industry.
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With Under The Watchful Eye Of Another Man's God, @crosswiresband.bsky.social create something even more powerful and provocative than what has gone before @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @wayneafcarey.bsky.social louderthanwar.com/cross-wires-...
Cross Wires: Under The Watchful Eye Of Another Man's God - Album Review
With Under The Watchful Eye Of Another Man's God, Cross Wires create something even more powerful and provocative than what has gone before.
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Glowing review of the live show right here.
louderthanwar.com@louderthanwar.bsky.social · 3w agoScott Lavene: Water Rats, London – Live Review @scottlavene.bsky.social @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social “Scott Lavene’s slow-burning kitchen-sink tales, delivered with a storyteller’s craft, leave a lasting impression“ louderthanwar.com/scott-lavene...
Catch up with the @louderthanwar.bsky.social Editor's Choice Show and hear an exclusive play of the forthcoming new SHOPFIRES single Underachievers. Available soon from @yyzrecords.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/louderthanwa...
LTW Editor’s Choice Show 190926 by Louder Than War
LTW Music Editors, Wayne Carey, Ged Babey, Nathan Whittle, Robert Plummer and Iain Key present an eclectic 2 hour hand picked mix of recent and brand new releases every Saturday morning...
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