Just because Rosemary fit quite neatly into the popular post-punk revival genre doesn’t mean they’re not worth a second glance. Third single ‘If I Had My Way’ is a kinetic rush of assault-pop, where floaty guitars get chased down a dark alley by relentless drums looking to beat a solo out of them.
Richard O’Brien reviews Rosemary’s new single.
When you get The Hold Steady, it’s like suddenly seeing your own reflection in the tenth shotglass of the evening. They ply their trade in gruff Kerouac-rock about drugs and drinking, and occasionally fucking, but mainly just the drugs. Finn’s atonal voice shouldn’t work but it does, and once you get hold of the lyrics there’s no going back. The lyrics are the key to the entire sound — a sound of manly heartland rock guitars and stadium-filling keyboards.
Richard O’Brien reviews The Hold Steady’s Boys and Girls in America.
Every January the magazine previews the big albums of the coming twelve months and every year Kerrang! is told on good authority that Axl’s long-awaited Chinese Democracy album is in the bag and on the way and a preview piece is subsequently penned. But it never arrives. It’s the Waiting for Godot of the hard rock world, an endless act played across the stage of the gossip columns and rock rag new round-up’s, where our anticipation of this unseen entity far exceeds its actual arrival.
Ben Myers discovers the missing link between Beckett and Guns N’ Roses in his latest column for 3:AM.
Brownlow’s pissed-off purr on ‘Last Call’ echoes around behind its precise, oppressive wall of New York post-punk like the revenge you can’t bring yourself to take.
Richard O’Brien reviews Me With Trees Towering by Swallows.
In April 2004, on release of their most recent and best album, Gods and Monsters, Bramwell peered out at a sold out Ritz, dipped his mouth to the microphone and sang the opening lines of ‘Coincidence’. “Love may have just come to bury me/But I’m not afraid of what I see.” We talk a lot about progress today, we’ll put with a lot for this undefined, malleable notion, but as those words seeped out there was a gravity, a break through, not just the band’s but everyone’s, as though all that’s best and highest was parting modern cultural maladies like the Red Sea.
I Am Kloot reviewed by Maxwell Liu.
Four or so years ago, the Libs created a musical Narnia for a country that had forgotten how to dream, and gave it a place to go, a special magic to feel. Now the good ship Albion may have sunk, but those dreamers aren’t leaving any time soon. The Bergeracs are among the best. Is it time for some new heroes?
Richard O’Brien thinks highly of the The Bergeracs’ ‘Back on Crack’.
Carruthers knows his way around a guitar, and the best way to peel off those oh-so-slow clean-picked notes to spin you right into the web he’s weaving. A prime example is ‘Finding It Hard’, containing the killer couplet ‘I wake Sunday morning in my Friday night shirt/There’s burns on my arms and they don’t even hurt’, delivered in a manner slightly reminiscent of a yobbish Jarvis Cocker. Or maybe that’s just me.
Richard O’Brien on freelovebabies.
Given the buzz surrounding Larrikin Love, you’d think they’d colonised Mars and, just to cap it off, beat up the Pope. In fact, they’re a relatively good indie band who’ve just released a relatively well-realised first album.
Richard O’Brien on Larrkin Love, and Dylan.
Rowdy riffs, punked-up drumming, and an angry Scotsman with Dylanesque hair shouting hoarsely.
Richard O’Brien reviews, The Fratellis‘ debut album.
This wasn’t a nostalgia trip. It wasn’t a cashing in on the anniversary celebrations, and it wasn’t to push a repackaging of a back catalogue. It was just rock’n'roll played the way it’s supposed to be, and that’s something that is more difficult than many of us appreciate.”
Mainey from El Diablo fanzine reports back from the Eater, TV Smith, Don Letts and 100 Punks exhibition bash at the 100 Club in London on 28 September.
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