Our weekly playlist update is back for the first time in awhile! There’s been SO much good music released recently that we wanted to give our playlist a spring cleaning and provide our readers and listeners with a new batch of the latest tunes (and maybe one or two old favourites too). With their critically…
Sometimes, when a Download line up comes together, individual days stand out as something that could be truly special, even in the context of some of the legendary line ups that have gone before. The Saturday of 2006, when Metallica played Master Of Puppets in full, the infamous KoRnaoke following Jonathan Davis being taken ill…
After a rather excellent first day that saw chaotic sets the likes of Hollywood Undead, Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, Billy Talent and Lowlives bring a much-needed dose of rock to proceedings, the second day of this summer’s Leeds Festival looked set to be a bit more of a relaxed affair, with a Main Stage headline…
We said with their first announcement that the Download Festival team certainly weren’t messing around with their plans for 2019. Having dropped all three headliners and another dozen plus bands in the first announcement, they’ve followed it up with another mammoth helping of bands for next year. There’s only one place we can start, and…
It’s time once again for another update to the Rock Sins Spotify playlist. This time out we are, as you might have guessed from the title, focusing on the annual August bank holiday festival double header at Reading & Leeds 2018. This weeks’ 20 tracks are a mixture of old favourites and new releases from…
Despite the predictions of a total wash out of Doningtons annual festivities, mother nature had been kind to Download 2016, at least until the Friday. As Team Rock Sins took to the hallowed turf there was still grass to be seen, albeit not for much longer! First band of the day were Swedes Royal Republic…
Download Announcement time again! We somewhat get the feeling that Team Download’s hand was forced this time after All Time Low dropped the bombshell live on stage in London on Thursday that they would be performing at Download 2016. Team Rock Sins has long speculated All Time Low as a possible second stage headliner and…
Save the Nation the second release by Swedish Hard Rock band Royal Republic takes a derivative hard rock formula into which a heady sense of reckless fun is enthused. Songs like the title track ‘Save the Nation’ will plaster a huge grin on your face with its anthemic chorus shrieking “a vote for me is…
Royal Republic are a band who’ve really made people sit up and take notice in the last few months. I’d never heard of them before until I was persuaded by Neil (Rocksins editor) to go and watch them at Download earlier this year. It was a shrewd piece of advice as they whipped a capacity…
