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LIVE REVIEW + PHOTOS: Clutch – Academy, Manchester – 19/12/2025

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  • Posted on December 23, 2025December 23, 2025

Clutch bring some serious heat to close out the year, thanks to what’s still among some of the most vital and vivacious hard rock out there.

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PHOTOS: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Academy, Manchester – 12/12/2025

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  • Posted on December 22, 2025December 22, 2025

Even decades in, the love for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club hasn’t faded, as they take to Manchester for a packed headline show.

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PHOTOS: The Black Keys – Castlefield Bowl, Manchester – 09/07/2025

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  • Posted on July 15, 2025July 15, 2025

As part of Manchester’s Sounds Of The City, The Black Keys arrive at Castlefield Bowl to show how much steam their blues-rock still has.

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ALBUM REVIEW: BIG SPECIAL – ‘NATIONAL AVERAGE’

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  • Posted on July 4, 2025July 4, 2025

A surprise album with a quick turnaround time proves no hurdle for BIG SPECIAL, who continue to hammer post-punk into an image that’s among one of the most engrossing things in UK music today.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Kaleo – ‘Mixed Emotions’

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  • Posted on May 5, 2025May 5, 2025

Kaleo’s indie-, blues- and folk-rock is still among the strongest from its scene, but the feeling that they still could be better has never been clearer than it is right now.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Dorothy – ‘The Way’

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  • Posted on March 14, 2025March 15, 2025

Dorothy swap out flair and fire for radio-ready functionality, and arrive at hard rock’s middle of the road with ease and haste.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Zeal & Ardor, Dark Tranquillity, Frozemode

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  • Posted on August 22, 2024August 31, 2024

In this Review Round-Up, genre experiments from Zeal & Ardor and Frozemode yield a mixed bag (with one much better than the other), while Dark Tranquillity provide some welcome reliability.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – ‘Dark Rainbow’

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  • Posted on January 22, 2024January 22, 2024

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes bring authenticity to the fore, on an album defined by stark ballads, electrified ragers, and a sense of excellence only brought from a band continuing to grow.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Bad Touch, ERASE THEORY, Felicette

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  • Posted on November 29, 2023November 28, 2023

In the final Review Round-Up of 2023, throwback-rock still isn’t any more interesting coming from Bad Touch, though ERASE THEORY and Felicette deliver some solid EPs as a counterbalance.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: The Word Alive, Filter, Des Rocs, Knife Bride

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  • Posted on August 23, 2023August 23, 2023

In this Review Round-Up, there’s a range of alt-metal of all shapes, sizes and qualities from The Word Alive, Filter and Knife Bride, broken up by some solid throwback-rock from Des Rocs.

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After a long absence, Basement’s indie-rock reworking has quite a few nice ideas, but also just as many limitations that they struggle to work around.

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Continuing their legacy as a true cult classic of post-punk and indie-rock, The Twilight Sad's newest UK tour lands at Manchester’s New Century Hall.

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📞 ALBUM REVIEW: @koyolihc - 'Barely Here' 📞

Koyo’s intersection of pop-punk, emo and hardcore is taken to new heights, on what legitimately feels like a scene classic in the making.

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