Where – Whitebottom Farm, Etherow Country Estate, Stockport When – 6th/9th August 2026 Review and photographs by Linda McDermott The Pre-Party 6th August 2026 There’s something special about getting to a festival the day before it officially kicks off. Maybe it’s taking the stress out of getting all set up, meeting friends you’ve not seen for ages for pre-festival drinks or simply relaxing into the weekend and forgetting all about work. Firevolt Festival caters for [more…]
Review and Images By Paul McWilliams Some gigs are about spectacle, huge production and the biggest stage possible. Others remind you that when the songs are good enough, none of that is necessary. Everette’s appearance at Manchester’s Band on the Wall on 6 August was very much the latter. In the intimate [more…]
Review By Glen Parkes Some bands make an album. Others make a statement. With A Beautiful World To Lose, Corella have done the latter. This is a record that sounds like a band that has stopped asking whether they belong at the top table of British rock and decided instead that they [more…]
Review By Glen Parkes Few artists on the UK blues-rock scene deliver heartfelt, riff-driven rock quite like Jack J Hutchinson, and with his latest single ‘Rise Again’, he has produced one of his most uplifting and memorable tracks to date. Serving as the second single from his forthcoming album Soul Believer, due [more…]
A Jace media music review There are debut albums that arrive politely, introduce themselves and ask for your attention. Then there are albums like Ryan Perdz’s Can’t Cry that kick the door in, plug the guitar straight into the amp and demand that you listen. This is not a record built to [more…]
‘HOMETIME’, ‘VOICE’, ‘THE TURN’, ‘the minutes’ AND ‘OTHER’ALL RE-RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 25THPRE-ORDER HERE ALL ALBUMS ARE EXPLORED IN DEPTH IN AN UPCOMING TEN-PART PODCAST SERIES Alison Moyet’s 2024 career-spanning reworks album ‘Key’ earned critical adoration and saw her recent return to the Top 10 album chart. Cooking Vinyl are now re-releasing a limited edition, five-album reissue series of ‘Hometime’, ‘Voice’, ‘The Turn’, ‘the minutes’ and‘Other’ on heavyweight colour vinyl and deluxe CD [more…]
LIMITED RUN COMING TO CINEMAS WORLDWIDE STARTING SEPTEMBER 30; GLOBAL EXPANSION IN SELECT CITIES TO FOLLOW WATCH THE OFFICIAL TRAILER HERE FILM SOUNDTRACK UNSHATTER (LIVE IN SÃO PAULO) ARRIVES SEPTEMBER 25; AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW HERE “SOMEWHERE I BELONG (LIVE IN SÃO PAULO)” OUT NOW LISTEN HERE FILM TO BE PRESENTED IN SCREENX, 4DX [more…]
Nova Riot Interview By Lily O’Delia Nova Riot is an Oklahoma and Texas duo that blends pop hooks, nu metal synths, and horror spectacle into what they call “bubblegum alternative metal,” and their debut album, Blood, Lies & Lullabies, wastes no time proving it. From the first track, it swings between melody and menace without [more…]
To coincide with The Damn Truth’s August 2026 UK Tour that kicks off at The Live Rooms in Chester on Friday August 28th, and the Deluxe Edition of their self-titled album The Damn Truth (released September 11th), the JUNO Award-nominated Canadian rock band will perform a FREE 30-minute acoustic session at London’s [more…]
Ahead of the release of their debut EP ‘Us’ scheduled this month, French progressive metal act Dualisis brings both previously released singles back into focus “Us” and “The Deep” – revealing them not as isolated tracks, but as interconnected fragments of a larger emotional and sonic narrative. ‘Us ‘is out [more…]
Download/Stream HERE Black Water Redemption have released their heartfelt new single, ‘Walk Beside You’, taken from their forthcoming self-titled debut album, Black Water Redemption, due for release on 2 October 2026. Following the release of recent single ‘Ride Or Die’, the band continue to showcase the depth and diversity of the record. For guitarist Tyler [more…]
‘HOT SUMMER NIGHT’ THE NEW SINGLE & VIDEO OUT NOW WATCH HOT SUMMER NIGHT USA good time rockers Big Engine are thrilled to return with the bluesy slide guitar laden and sparkling keys infused ‘Hot Summer Night’ out now on all good digital platforms. On the theme of the song, their first [more…]
Where – Whitebottom Farm, Etherow Country Estate, Stockport When – 6th/9th August 2026 Review and photographs by Linda McDermott The Pre-Party 6th August 2026 There’s something special about getting to a festival the day before it officially kicks off. Maybe it’s taking the stress out of getting all set up, meeting friends you’ve not seen for ages for pre-festival drinks or simply relaxing into the weekend and forgetting all about work. Firevolt Festival caters for [more…]
Review and Images By Paul McWilliams Some gigs are about spectacle, huge production and the biggest stage possible. Others remind you that when the songs are good enough, none of that is necessary. Everette’s appearance at Manchester’s Band on the Wall on 6 August was very much the latter. In the intimate [more…]
Review By Glen Parkes Some bands make an album. Others make a statement. With A Beautiful World To Lose, Corella have done the latter. This is a record that sounds like a band that has stopped asking whether they belong at the top table of British rock and decided instead that they [more…]
Review By Glen Parkes Few artists on the UK blues-rock scene deliver heartfelt, riff-driven rock quite like Jack J Hutchinson, and with his latest single ‘Rise Again’, he has produced one of his most uplifting and memorable tracks to date. Serving as the second single from his forthcoming album Soul Believer, due [more…]
A Jace media music review There are debut albums that arrive politely, introduce themselves and ask for your attention. Then there are albums like Ryan Perdz’s Can’t Cry that kick the door in, plug the guitar straight into the amp and demand that you listen. This is not a record built to [more…]
‘HOMETIME’, ‘VOICE’, ‘THE TURN’, ‘the minutes’ AND ‘OTHER’ALL RE-RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 25THPRE-ORDER HERE ALL ALBUMS ARE EXPLORED IN DEPTH IN AN UPCOMING TEN-PART PODCAST SERIES Alison Moyet’s 2024 career-spanning reworks album ‘Key’ earned critical adoration and saw her recent return to the Top 10 album chart. Cooking Vinyl are now re-releasing a limited edition, five-album reissue series of ‘Hometime’, ‘Voice’, ‘The Turn’, ‘the minutes’ and‘Other’ on heavyweight colour vinyl and deluxe CD [more…]
LIMITED RUN COMING TO CINEMAS WORLDWIDE STARTING SEPTEMBER 30; GLOBAL EXPANSION IN SELECT CITIES TO FOLLOW WATCH THE OFFICIAL TRAILER HERE FILM SOUNDTRACK UNSHATTER (LIVE IN SÃO PAULO) ARRIVES SEPTEMBER 25; AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW HERE “SOMEWHERE I BELONG (LIVE IN SÃO PAULO)” OUT NOW LISTEN HERE FILM TO BE PRESENTED IN SCREENX, 4DX [more…]
Nova Riot Interview By Lily O’Delia Nova Riot is an Oklahoma and Texas duo that blends pop hooks, nu metal synths, and horror spectacle into what they call “bubblegum alternative metal,” and their debut album, Blood, Lies & Lullabies, wastes no time proving it. From the first track, it swings between melody and menace without [more…]
