Formed in 2017, Londoners Southbank Crows are pop rockers who met at a blind audition. It must have been really weird then to discover that they clearly share an affinity for the avian. Is it a coincidence that they are with ‘Skyfire Productions’? Surely not. Wait… a blind audition for what Lesley Mac wonders, as she moves the wine glass to the side… She hopes it wasn’t that naked show.
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We are certainly living in strange and troublesome times and Portland, OR, punk-rockers, Era Bleak, are here to provide the soundtrack! Our country is currently being run by a tangerine tyrant, during a global pandemic, and it seems like no one can be trusted. Honestly, what could be more bleak than that? Right from the start, you’re hit with a wall of raw, in-your-face energy with the title track ‘Era Bleak’. The lyrics “Things get shittier every week/No hope for the future in this era bleak” perfectly sums up how 2020 is going so far and it’s only the beginning!
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Back in 2016, Jim R was asked to review Brimstone Coven’s second album ‘Black Magic’, which was released on Metal Blade. He was immediately enchanted by the sound of these Ohio melodic occult rockers, and the album ended up as my choice for album of the year that year. It was an excellent album that should have propelled them onto a whole new level, and certainly deserved to. Instead, circumstances stopped the momentum and they fell under the radar, but now they’re back with a new deal with Ripple Music and a new album ‘The Woes of a Mortal Earth’.
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There’s a very splaylist called “Prog Me Harder” on Spotify – and that’s because he can’t get enough of the experimentalism and unorthodox nature of prog metal. He loves the way that the songs are structured in such a way that they seem to suck you out of your body and into an almost dreamlike state, then suddenly you’ve listened to a 20 minute track and it feels like no time has passed at all. So, when the debut album from the progressive trio from Leeds, Divided by Design, landed in front of me for review, he knew it was time to see if it passed the Jonny Bakes prog playlist test…
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The Music Venue Trust – the charity that represents the interests of almost 1,000 independent music venues across the Uber Kingdom – has issued a statement in response to the Government’s announcement today (Friday) that indoor venues can start to stage events, under strict social distancing conditions, from tomorrow (Saturday 15 August).
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