Chris DeMakes (guitars & vocals) – “Billy Batts & the Made Men are a band that I recently got into. They are really young, but the songs are super punk rock, with great melodies. Reminds me of early ...

The darkness closes in, the world seems just too hard, you wrap yourself up in the blankets, stay in bed and hope the world will go away, and then, the season changes, you pull away the covers and ...

In a world full of uncertainty, a new record from pop punk staples New Found Glory feels like a comfort. Thoughts of nostalgia, friendship and living the good life make for a warm album focusing on ...

After over two hundred shows in the UK over his career as Less Than Jake’s guitarist and vocalist, Chris DeMakes is practically a local at this point. “I've never had a bad gig in the UK,” he declares ...

The production is powerful and there is a slick sense of self; this is an accessible, artistic metal record, filled with strong songs. ‘Sunder’ is a portrait of distress and despair painted with the ...

I’ – the band’s admirably ambitious collaboration with Chelsea Wolfe – prevented the passing of a near-decade of Converge-less time, the wait for a new Converge album proper has never been greater.

JON SHEASBY CHRONICLES THE CHAOS OF THE MTV2 GENERATION. In ‘Teenage Dirtbags: A Brief History of the MTV2 Generation’, Jon Sheasby has written a gritty retrospective of the a ...

It’s no surprise that DIY punk supergroup YAKKIE’s debut offering, ‘Kill The Cop Inside Your Head’, is a political, feminist melting pot of anti-capitalist rage. The band is fronted by Dream Nails ...

Gogol Bordello have drawn on so, so much from their musical heritage to make this album, passing beyond the gypsy-punk label and through to glorious self-definition. We’ve got the gorgeous Madness ...

Baking a cake is a simple thing. Two eggs, two hundred grams of flour, sugar and margarine, all mixed together and gently cooked for thirty minutes. An easy recipe. The results are fairly consistent, ...

Of course ‘Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death’, Creeper’s song awaited fourth album, is released on Halloween. And the fact it’s centred loosely around a Lost Boys-esque story about a vampire rock band ...

“No, it’s not just your imagination,” claim HEALTH. “The future is shit and the phone you are reading this on is making it worse.” It’s a suitable epigram for the twelve industrially-tinged and rather ...