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In the most significant development in the four-year planning battle, the Take That star is set to go ahead with plans for a subterranean extension

Venue: Scala, London Date: 10.5.18 Support: Rattle, Ana Da Silva Photos: Grant Bailey Protomartyr have never heard of final-night lethargy. Tonight's Scala crowd have packed themselves in for a show, and Joe Casey and his crew or hangdog punks are going to give it to them. The band came for a whistlestop tour of the UK last week in support of their latest EP, Consolation, and to give some of their freshest cuts an airing in front of a devoted audience....

After months of anticipation, La Luz's lush, lysergic new album Floating Features is finally out today. Shot through with rays of smoggy LA sunshine, the record navigates disorienting dreamscapes throughout its 11 tracks--particularly ‘Mean Dream’, which has a new music video from director Ryan D. Browne. La Luz have just begun a massive 35-date North American tour. The band return to the UK this September and October - full list of dates below. La Luz UK Tour Dates 09.24.18 -...

It's 2018 and the World is on its knees. Ask British folk singer Jay McAllister about it and he'll tell you that “the world is dying. Shit is getting serious".  Ask punk poet Sean McGowan and he'll say it's all "daylight robbery, mad men on a muggery, lifetime of monotony, it’s a fixed lottery, burdened to bottom feed, banished to poverty, worship celebrity?… Nah I don’t think so". Arc of Triumph released their debut album last year making chilling warnings about the...

A new Protomartyr EP is coming. The Detroit post punk posse have announced the new release, titled Consolation E.P., which they recorded in part with friend Kelley Deal and will be released June 15th via Domino. Two of the four songs feature Deal on vocals alongside singer Joe Casey, including ‘Wheel of Fortune’, which receives a video today directed by Yoonha Park (who directed the band's video for ‘Don't Go To Anacita’).  The EP was recorded by Deal's R.Ring bandmate Mike Montgomery. Joe Casey and Kelley Deal had...

Nottingham trio Kagoule will release their new album Strange Entertainment on Alcopop! Records later this year. The band will also support Drenge on their upcoming run of headline shows this month. With some time away from the spotlight to consolidate their early achievements and think about the direction they were heading after parting ways with their previous label, Strange Entertainment sees the band finally spinning together their disparate influences into a record that attempts to capture the sum of their parts. Commenting on...

Brooklyn-based power pop troupe We Are Scientists have returned with a jubilant new release that comes as welcome relief amidst the doom and gloom soundtrack that seems to have permeated most aspects of our lives. The band's seventh album, titled ‘Megaplex’, sees the now renowned duo of Keith Murray and Chris Cain dazzle with ten brand new splashes of colourful and utterly addictive pop. Recorded at the Tim Wheeler from Ash’s studio much of the record bears a resemblance to the aforementioned...

In eight months’ time, when everyone’s doing their yearly round-ups and we’ve all seen exactly 7,081,346 Best of 2018 album countdowns each, music press will turn to April as the banner month for releases. I mean, you were there too. Just look at the state of it! In the space of 30 short days we had batshit experimental hardcore in the return of The Armed, a smoothed out and slappy as-all-get-out new one from stoner rock legends Sleep, and the...

Venue: Brixton Academy, London Date: 21.4.18 Support: Code Orange, Power Trip, Venom Prison Photos: Richard Broome (richbroomemusicphotography.weebly.com) Good grief, look at that line-up. After riding the hype – and subsequent hate – of a meteoric rise in the early noughties with Ascendancy, Trivium have, through sheer perseverance and talent, found themselves settled at the top of the pile once again, this time as elder statesmen of metal. This is no more apparent than on this later tour where Matt Heafy’s...