Speaking to MOD SUN (aka Derek Smith) is like speaking to actual sunshine. He oozes positivity and energy, and his excitement for where he is in his life right now and his passion for music is so infectious. After reminiscing about the old times, (where we didn’t just go to live shows, but we queued…
A bumper announcement from the Download Festival team about Download Festival 2022 this morning! A mixture of bands from the cancelled 2020 and 2021 lineups, along with some fresh faces have given us all plenty to look forward to in June 2022. Confirmed alongside headliners KISS, Iron Maiden and Biffy Clyro for the main stage…
2020 saw Scottish duo VUKOVI release their second album and they kick-started 2021 with the release of new single, Kill It. The band, which was previously a four-piece is now made up by Janine Shilstone and Hamish Reilly. Kill It is not only their first release of the year, but also the first to be…
Credit where it is due, there aren’t many organisations out there who have kept us entertained throughout this miserable pandemic than the Californian Desert Wizard Association. The Wizards pioneered the streaming market with their Couchlock and Rock festival last year, which gathered highlights of the Stoned and Dusted Festival together plus that majestic performance from…
Los Angeles icons Weezer teamed up with the prestigious Los Angeles Philharmonic and YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles) over the weekend to host a live steam with No Cap. The event saw Weezer perform their latest album OK Human, front to back at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, giving fans a chance to experience the uniquely different album in all its glory. Alongside the…
St Albans’ finest Enter Shikari have recently revealed a surprise companion collection of songs in the form of new album Moratorium (Broadcasts From The Interruption). The release comes not only out of the blue, but exactly a year after the release of Shikari’s sixth studio album Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible. The companion collection includes re-imagined songs…
Few bands are as exceptional as Black Peaks. That’s a curt and hyperbolic statement, but a justified one.
“For bands in general nowadays there’s so many cogs that have to turn to keep the machine going. It’s not like it used to be back in the day where “Rock’n’Roll’ was enough!” quips the While She Sleeps frontman, Loz Taylor. The Sheffield quintet have never been the sort to take their feet off the…
This is Holding Absence. Words heard and read time and again by those, like us here at Rock Sins, who have followed the South Wales collective from their inception. Four years on from bursting onto the scene with their first single, and two years on from their debut self-titled album, Holding Absence return with “the…
WHILE SHE SLEEPS have undeniably been one of the bigger success stories of the last decade within UK metal. They’ve faced their share of adversity and persevered through it all thanks to their fiercely independent drive and DIY ethic. This attitude has been the constant driving force for While She Sleeps alongside their deep connection…
