Following The Smashing Pumpkins’ show-stopping performance at Download this past weekend, frontman Billy Corgan played a one-off UK solo headline show at Saint Luke’s & The Winged Ox in Glasgow. We sent joung Jess R to check out the action – well, once she managed to make it through the venue’s doors!
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After hearing that Canadian five-piece Obey The Brave’s new album was to affirm them as a major heavyweight in the metalcore genre, our Jolee’s hopes were set high. ‘Balance’ is the guys’ fourth full length album to date, with it demonstrating the stylistic diversity and complexity they have to offer. In our youngest team member’s opinion, the album as a whole, except for one or two songs, screams Beartooth-esque vibes. For fans of Beartooth (of course), The Amity Affliction and The Ghost Inside.
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Moonlight Haze’s debut album ‘De Rerum Natura’ has an impressive lineup both in the band itself and in the guests. You can definitely hear an influence from Chiara Tricarico’s time with Temperance as the sound here is similar to the things she was doing back then but more developed and evolved. ‘De Rerum Natura’ takes far more advantage of her vocal range and musically has a much more aggressive and passionate tone.
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Cockney Rejects are to celebrate their 40th anniversary year with a new book, a limited edition signed DVD, both released in October, and a career-spanning show in December.
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Bern-based power trio The Jackets are one of a slew of widely diverse acts who have been placing the land of mountain-shaped chocolate bars and cuckoo clocks very firmly on the rock ‘n’ roll map and establishing this seemingly otherwise quiet little country as a true powerhouse of creativity and talent. In the case of The Jackets, their chosen mien of expression is garage-infused psychedelic fuzz of a kind that is hypnotic and trancelike, but equally energetic and enervating at the same time.
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