Category: Music reviews

• Album Review: Randy Holden – Population II

  A look at a cult classic and potentially one of the earliest heavy metal albums, Population II by Randy Holden.

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  14th Feb 2023

  Classic Reviews, Classic Rock, Heavy Metal, metal mondays, Music reviews

  Population II, Randy Holden

• This Week’s Best New Music: February 2023 Week 2

  

  Reviews of Young Fathers’ Heavy Heavy, Council Cut, Boyan Chowdhury, Addison Groove, and Beck

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  12th Feb 2023

  Best New Music, Music reviews, Music roundup, new music

  Addison Groove, Beck, Best New Music, Boyan Chowdhury, Council Cut, new music, Tunes of the week, Young Fathers

• Classic Review: Los Campesinos!

  A review of the ridiculously titled, This Is How You Spell “HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics” from Los Campesinos!

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  9th Feb 2023

  Classic Reviews, Indie Pop, Los Campesinos!, Music reviews, Throwback Thursday

  indie, Los Campesinos!, music blog, Music reviews, This Is How You Spell “HAHAHA We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics”, Throwback Thursday

• This Week’s Best New Music: February 2023 Week 1

  

  This week’s best new music roundup features reviews of Lil Yachty, The Tubs, The Heavy Heavy, Badger, Ruby J, and Seb Lowe

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  5th Feb 2023

  Best New Music, Music reviews, Music roundup, new music

  Badger, Lil Yachty, music blog, Music reviews, new music, Ruby J, Seb Lowe, The Heavy Heavy, The Tubs

• Remember when Kanye was good?

  A look at Kanye West’s Never Let Me Down from his debut album. And some general thoughts on his bizarre downfall.

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  2nd Feb 2023

  Classic Reviews, Hip-Hop, Music reviews, Throwback Thursday

  Hip-Hop, J. Ivy, Jay-Z, Kanye West, music blog, Music reviews, rap, The College Dropout, Throwback Thursday

• Metal Mondays: Pigsx7

  Metal Mondays is a guide through the good (and bad) of metal from someone who doesn’t really like metal. This week looks at the new single from Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs.

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  30th Jan 2023

  Heavy Metal, metal mondays, Music reviews

  metal mondays, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Pigsx7

• This Week’s Best New Music: January 2023 Week 4

  

  Reviews of The Dream Machine, Red Telephone, Bek Jones, Fake Empire and Bailey’s Nervous Kats

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  29th Jan 2023

  Best New Music, Music reviews, Music roundup, new music

  Bailey’s Nervous Kats, Bek Jones, Best New Music, Fake Empire band, indie, music blog, Music reviews, new music, Numero Group, Red Telephone, The Dream Machine, Tunes of the week

• Classic Review: Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?

  17 years on from their debut album, a look back at a slightly lesser known release from Arctic Monkeys

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  26th Jan 2023

  Arctic monkeys, Classic Reviews, Music reviews, Throwback Thursday

  Alex Turner, Arctic monkeys, Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?

• Metal Mondays: Christian Metal

  Metal Mondays is a guide through the good (and bad) of metal from someone who doesn’t really like metal. This week looks at some Christian Metal from Tourniquet.

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  24th Jan 2023

  metal mondays, Music reviews, Single Review

  Christian metal, metal mondays, tourniquet

• This Week’s Best New Music: January 2023 Week 3

  

  Reviews of Billy Nomates, Sleaford Mods, Priestgate, Smote and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

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  22nd Jan 2023

  Music reviews, Music roundup, new music

  Billy Nomates, music blog, Music reviews, new music, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Priestgate, Sleaford Mods, Smote