Author: Callum Reid

Album Review: The Cruel Intentions – Venomous Anonymous
June 1, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: The Cruel Intentions – Venomous Anonymous

Much Sleazy fun and frolics are to be had via the second album from these rollicking rockers with a sense of humour and a seemingly constant availability when it comes to party time. Singer/guitarist Lizzy DeVine, formerly of Sweden’s Vains...
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Album Review – Evil: Book Of Evil
May 25, 2022 No Responses

Album Review – Evil: Book Of Evil

If your musical tastes have barely changed since 1982, or if you are only now “discovering” the “New” Wave Of British Heavy Metal, then it would be a sin for you to miss out on Evil and their Book Of...
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Album Review: Sylvia Rose Novak – A Miss/ A Masterpiece
May 18, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Sylvia Rose Novak – A Miss/ A Masterpiece

Sylvia Rose Novak’s The Window – song four of this excellent and emotionally engaging Indie Rock album – opens vistas, makes thing clear. It says a lot about Novak, where she has been, where she is right now. The Window...
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Album Review: Blue Violet – Late Night Calls
April 30, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Blue Violet – Late Night Calls

Blue Violet? Scarlet vermillion? Yellow amber? Verdant green? All the spectrum of emotions and myriad hues of life as we know it, or may not know it, are present and correct on elemental, engrossing and simply superior album Late Night...
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Album Review: Dorothy – Gifts From The Holy Ghost
April 20, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Dorothy – Gifts From The Holy Ghost

Who’s your favourite Dorothy? The ruby-slippered youth in Oz … “Sarong Girl” Lamour … or the girl you love talking to at your favourite dive bar whose parents named her after lounge singer Vallens? Either way, you can’t go wrong...
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Album Review: Bowling For Soup – Pop Drunk Snot Bread
April 20, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Bowling For Soup – Pop Drunk Snot Bread

Pop Drunk Snot Bread is a Pop Punk Fun Shred of a Kick Ass Out Bed album from Texas’ own Bowling For Soup. Jaret Reddick & Co take on some heavy, heavy issues, in their familiarly smartass/dumbass, self-deprecating, satirical, sharply-worded...
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Album Review: Tamar Berk – Start At The End
April 19, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Tamar Berk – Start At The End

This impressive and thought-provoking album offers up songs with a certain intimacy and authenticity, not to mention philosophical rigour. The second solo outing by Indie Pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tamar Berk is good company for its 13 tra...
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EP Review: The Clockworks – Self Titled
March 30, 2022 No Responses

EP Review: The Clockworks – Self Titled

“Tripping over bottle tops, skip round syringes/ Trollies in the river and gates off their hinges … It feels so real to me.” Everything Post-Punk plus the kitchen sink, Galway’s The Clockworks deliver power-packed two and three-minute pop vignettes pac...
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A Tribute: Taylor Hawkins
March 26, 2022 No Responses

A Tribute: Taylor Hawkins

The details are sketchy, the internet right at this publishing moment says “may be drugs”. The press release from the band says “devastated”. The press release mentions “wife, children, family”. When it comes to Taylor Hawkins, drummer and life and...
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Album Review: Axlaustade – Self Titled
March 25, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Axlaustade – Self Titled

Instrumental Indie Rock. Is this what the world needs now? Mmm. Axlaustade might just be on to something … The band collectively say: “We wanted to create some music you could meditate, headbang, dance or run to. Reminiscent of the...
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