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More than half made no profit in 2025 — and the future is looking seriously shaky Britain loves to bang on about being a “world-leading music nation”. We export bands, sell out arenas, and slap Union Jacks on festival posters like it’s all going swimmingly. But down at street level — where the sweat drips off the ceiling and the...

BLOOD-RED VINYL, RARE RIFFS & ZERO MERCY New year, new noise, and The Chuck Norris Experiment are kicking things off with the release of HOT STUFF 3 – the third chapter in their no-frills series of unreleased tracks, B-sides, and rare cuts from the last couple of years. This isn’t a half-hearted leftovers job. This is action-packed, riff-driven rock ’n’...

Someone lock the doors and hide the whiskey, because The Karma Effect are back — and they’ve brought trouble with them. Today, the South London rockers have dropped ‘Dangerous Love’, a sultry, swagger-soaked new single lifted from their fiercely anticipated upcoming album Cruel Intentions, due to land on 15th May 2026 via the ever-reliable riff factory that is Earache Records....

“End of Beginning” breaks charts, logic, and the Upside Down Somewhere between the Upside Down and a face-melting guitar solo, the internet has collectively decided to lose its head — and honestly, we’re right there with it. According to the wildest corner of pop-culture chaos, Steve Harrington has just gone #1 on Spotify with a track called “End of Beginning.”Yes....

Strap in, prog heads 🤘 — Rush are cracking open the vaults once again, announcing Super Deluxe Editions of their razor-sharp 1984 classic Grace Under Pressure. And yes… it’s proper tidy stuff. Originally released at a time when Cold War anxiety was thick in the air and synths were taking over the planet, Grace Under Pressure saw Rush lean hard...

Stop what you’re doing, drop the pint, and steady yourself — this one’s a proper WHAT’S OCCURRING moment, butt. Flea has announced a special UK show, and as if that wasn’t already enough to make bass players across Wales weep softly into their pedalboards… he’s also unleashed a brand new single featuring none other than Thom Yorke. Yes. That Thom...

27 September 1947 — 20 January 2022 Four years ago today, the rock world lost one of its biggest voices, biggest hearts, and biggest bloody personalities. Meat Loaf didn’t just pass through music — he charged through it, kicked the doors off, knocked over the furniture, and left scorch marks on the walls on the way out 🤘🔥 This wasn’t...

Every so often, history gives us a moment where the volume knob snaps clean off and refuses to be fixed. 20 January 1992 was one of those days, butt. 🇬🇧🐉 That’s when Manic Street Preachers unleashed You Love Us, the third single from their snarling, confrontational debut album Generation Terrorists — and British rock was never quite the same again....

The heartbeat of Midnight Oil. A drum throne with a conscience. The world’s a little quieter today. News has landed that Rob Hirst — drummer, songwriter, founding force and rhythmic spine of Midnight Oil — has passed away at 70, and it’s hit like a kick drum to the chest. Rob wasn’t just keeping time. He was driving the message....

Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds Live Invades the UK in 2026 Hide your nan, lock up the dog, and point your telescope skyward — Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds is marching back across the UK in October and November 2026, and yes… it’s every bit as colossal, dramatic, and gloriously over-the-top as you remember. 🤘🛸 This...

There are cover versions… and then there are acts of musical vandalism so glorious they deserve their own plaque.Enter 2Cellos and their absolutely feral take on Thunderstruck by AC/DC. Two cellos.No guitars.No amps.No safety net. And yet… pure, sweat-drenched rock ’n’ roll chaos 🤘🔥 When Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser dropped this cover back in 2014, the internet collectively spat...

Some bands play Saturday Night Live multiple times, collect a mug, shake Lorne Michaels’ hand, and ride off into late-night legend. Rage Against The Machine did it once… and somehow managed to get themselves banned, detained, and escorted out of 30 Rock like absolute revolutionaries. Proper tidy chaos, mun 🤘 The Night That Everything Went Sideways Cast your mind back...

Break out the eyeliner, hairspray, and a calculator from hell, mun — because this one’s messier than a backstage dressing room in 1989. Glam metal legends Poison have reportedly axed upcoming tour plans after frontman Bret Michaels allegedly demanded 600% more money than the rest of the band. Yes. Six. Hundred. Percent.That’s not “I want a bigger slice of the...

South London’s blues-rock wrecking crew The Karma Effect are back, louder and swaggering harder than ever, with ‘Waiting On A Miracle’ — the first taste of brand-new studio material since their Top 20-crashing second album Promised Land barged into the Official UK Album Chart like it owned the place. Proper job, that. 🤘🔥 And that’s not all, mun. The band...

Right then, butt — let’s properly set the scene, because Wilding Takeover isn’t just another date in the diary. This is one of those proper grassroots gems that reminds you why small festivals still hit harder than most big-field behemoths. 🤘😈 📍 WHERE IT ALL GOES DOWN The chaos unfolds at The Green Rooms in Treforest, a venue that’s quietly...