Category: Jace Media Music

Review By Darren McIntyre Riot Weekend are a Guildford-based alt-pop-punk quartet that blends pop-punk catchiness with hard-hitting heavy riffs & wide-ranging soaring vocals. The band draw favourable comparisons with the likes of Green Day, Blink-182 & Paramore; they deliver a kinetic & crowd-engaging performance each time they hit the stage. 2022 sees [more…]

REVIEWER – GRAEME WRIGHT This may seem like a weird analogy, but listening to the new record from Chemical Tribe is a little bit like watching the autopsy scene from John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’. We remove the blanket and immediately recognise this beast as pop/punk. Then somebody says, “Is that a bit [more…]

A Jace Media Music Review There’s something electrifying about an artist who refuses to sand down their edges—and on Burn Me Into Something Better, Gina Zo doesn’t just embrace the fire; she walks straight into it. Originally from the suburbs of Philadelphia and now based in Los Angeles, Zo has steadily built [more…]

Self-Released | Out 23rd April Having read the press, I knew I just had to listen to this and review it. Spain’s unruly pirate collective, The Groggy Dogs, return with No Grog, No Glory, and there’s something genuinely different about this record. While many bands flying the folk-punk flag lean heavily into [more…]

Out 27th February via Big Oil Recordings Review By Halina Wegner Copenhagen-via-Berlin artist Debbie Sings is carving out her own corner of what she calls “recession-pop” — a sharp, self-aware brand of pop music that feels both playful and politically conscious, glossy yet slightly fractured. With Oh My, her entirely self-produced new [more…]

By Kirsty Middlemist With Songs for the Weary, his second album, Matthew Whitaker delivers a collection of songs that feel tailor-made for quiet corners and unhurried afternoons. From the very first notes, the record establishes itself as a gentle, soothing listening experience — the sort of album you might expect to hear [more…]

Review By Josh Jones End of Us is a highly anticipated album, being TX2’s debut album after a whole decade of building popularity on social media and releasing only singles, which on their own racked up millions of streams, so it is safe to say I listened to this album with high [more…]

Carpenter Brut has released the new single ‘Speed Or Perish’, the latest song to be taken from his forthcoming album Leather Temple out February 27th via No Quarter Prod / Virgin Records. Leather Temple is the third and final album in the Leather trilogy from the French synthwave icon. The Leather Temple stands at the centre of Midwichpolis, [more…]

Album Review by GLEN PARKES Release Date: 20th February 2026Label: Silver Lining Music There are albums you anticipate… And then there are albums that arrive. Outerstellar doesn’t politely knock at the door—it kicks it open in a cloud of leather-scented swagger and neon-lit attitude. Michael Monroe has always embodied the pure spirit [more…]

Review By Glen Parkes Some bands hit a peak and spend the rest of their careers chasing it. Gipsy Pistoleros are not one of those bands. With Dark Faerie Tales, they don’t just prove that lightning can strike twice — they prove it can strike harder, darker, and with far more dangerous [more…]

Words and Photos by Dave Martin/Faversham Photography The lighting started flashing and thunder sounds echoed through the PA system as the intro to Thunderstruck hit and Sophie Lloyd entered the stage. Gone was the Top Gun theme used as an intro on Sophie’s previous tour now replaced with her rendition of the [more…]

Review By Glen Parkes Reina del Mar arrives wrapped in salt air and sun-warmed rhythm, a Latin-rock-infused single that carries a distinctly Mexican-Cuban spirit in both its groove and its soul. From the opening moments, the track moves with an easy, rolling sway, as if guided by the tide itself rather than [more…]