Tag: Hard rock
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Kleptones – AD
If I was to choose one word to describe The Kleptones fourth album in the ‘quadtriptych’ it would be angry. Not a misplaced or random anger, but a righteous one about the state of the world at the moment. Starting with hypnotic Alan Watts quotes and strange spoken word about reality, truth and cake, it…
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Deafheaven – Great Mass of Color
Was watching Dunproofin’s Spin set (Fridays and Saturdays at 10pm UK time) and he raided moshtalks hosted by Beez which I’d not heard before who did a great video set of metal – some requests (Gojira! Motorhead!), some his choices (Slayer is always welcome, Sepultura, classic stuff and newer stuff I’d not heard of). I…
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Pop Goes The Weapon
New Prophets of Rage (the supergroup formed by members of Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave and Cypress Hill) and they are back with a hard-hitting video about gun culture in the US and all the shootings this year alone. It’s a good time to be angry, and there is a lot to be…
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RC 299: Running Away Into The Sunset
From Sunset to Sunrise, from Metal Muppet Baby Shark to Catching A Godlike Pussy, we take a trip into the far blue yonder soundtracked by disco, northern soul, electronica, punk, heavy rock, ska, pop, hiphop, indie, hi-nrg, indie and a small shedload of queer artists. We talk about social media, avoid Br*x*t, Time passes…, My…
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Infinite radio & the shadow people
Brendan from Infinite radio & the shadow people sent these over to me, I guess demos/rough mixes for their next album, and there’s something very primal, dark and interesting about these – certainly the noises are up my street, mining that dark vein of psychdelic rock/gothabilly and more harder/post rock. This is very much the…