Takedown Festival 2026 returned to Portsmouth Guildhall to kick off festival season and offer a selection of newer bands and more established bands, with a resulting balanced lineup of well-loved artists and exciting new music, to discover across the two days. The multi-room format encouraged constant movement between stages and a variety of high-production sets…
Last night at O2 Academy Brixton felt less like a gig and more like being caught in a controlled electrical storm. From the moment the lights dropped, there was this low, simmering anticipation that snapped into chaos as the Muse tore into their opener—no slow build, no easing in, just immediate, full-throttle intensity. What stood…
Tucked into the heart of Islington,The Grace has built a reputation as a proving ground for bands on the cusp, an intimate room where momentum either translates or fizzles out. Snake Eyes were very much in the former camp. Touring their debut album Cash Rich a record already noted for its “gritty and dense bass lines” and…
In the heart of Highbury, where the pulse of London’s underground music scene beats strongest, The Garage transformed into a sweat-drenched cauldron of sound on Friday, October 24. Mouth Culture, the Leicester-based alt-rock trio who’s been steadily clawing their way from festival sidelines to headline status, delivered a performance that felt less like a gig…
With the bank holiday weekend over and the end of August here, for many of us it marks the end of festival season, with Reading and Leeds Festival being one of these big markers. So as we say goodbye to summer you can relive some of our favourite rock and alternative bands at Leeds Festival,…
Halfway through the US leg of the Long Live The Black Parade tour, My Chemical Romance make a triumphant return to their hometown of New Jersey. Headlining Metlife Stadium for the first time and even being presented with a key to the city by Mayor of Belleville, home to three of the band members to…
Fresh from their headline set at 2000trees, closing out this year’s festival the night before, Canadian legends Alexisonfire still on a high, brought all the energy to London’s Brixton Academy show. We sent photographer Sarah Louise Bennett along to capture all the action – of which the night was of course full of. Check out…
It’s been one week since we kicked off our 2025 festival season with Slam Dunk Festival and what a weekend it was! We’re not ashamed to say we’re already counting the days till next year’s festival and can’t wait to see who’ll be on the line-up… In the meantime if like us, you want to…
There wasn’t a dry eye at London’s O2 Kentish Town forum as RØRY brought all the emotion and energy to her biggest sold out show, so far. RØRY aka Rox Pink has achieved so much in the last couple of years, both in her musical career and personal life, from her sobriety journey to being diagnosed…
Dance Punk trio DZ Deathrays surprised fans with the announcement of a small European tour and we were lucky enough to catch them at London’s The Victoria Dalston (a small venue hidden behind a bookcase…) This is one of those bands we can’t recommend enough for people to see given the chance -big energy, heavy riffs,…
