Voyager stunned the world with their Eurovision performances earlier this year. Now they're back with a new album on Season of Mist. T...

  What's so exciting about the current generation of young rock bands is the vision they bring to the table combining such a diverse arr...

Coheed and Cambria is a band I can quite surely qualify as an instant crush at first listen. Ever since having heard the first few minute...

One of the things I find endlessly fascinating about SPV Records is how they don't feel at all obligated to just release metal reco...

I'm more used to reviewing Gothenburg metal than Gothenburg indie, but y'know, sometimes something cool will find its way into my...

It's not often that I review singles on here, perhaps because I feel that in many ways they are a kind of lost art. Yet The Blue Van ...

When I first spun Animal last Thursday I didn't get it. I was preparing myself for a pretty heavy trip, a festival where drugs and al...

Shorthand Phonetics are an Indonesian pop-punk band who do not shy away from catchy hooks and powerful choruses. These guys may not be ...

I have a weakness for pop punk, I don't know why, it just reminds me of childhood, it's strangely beautiful, and sometimes it ev...

Villainettes are the kind of unique and proggy pop band who break boundaries and pursue a wholly singular sound. Suffice to say, they ...

Mangoseed is an exciting rock band from London. Their sound, while based in tradtional rock roots, actually has a lot more going on, with...

I don't get a lot of progressive and exciting modern rock, yet Rinch provide it proudly with their new record Odysee , the kind of al...

Eyes of Verona are one of those bands on the scene who basically play by their own rules. Sure there are elements of other genres thrown ...

Seamus Heaney is one of my favorite poets, in large part due to the way the he uses a down to earth simplicity to communicate a beautiful...

Regular readers know the drill, Matt tries to be a hoary old metal dude, but he has a soft spot for fun loving pop punk, it happens. Ma...

Progressive and powerful rock and roll magic, this is the kind of thing that we don't get nearly enough of in modern rock and roll...

Female fronted rock inflected alternative pop band. Admit it, even if you're not into this kind of music (I'm certainly not) it...

Now you guys know that I have a secret adoration for pop punk, and when it is pulled off well, it can be brilliant. Admittedly, when done...

Now you guys know, when I get to review a melodic rock/pop punk record I have a tendency to get inordinately happy, and thats just becaus...

So now we move on from the jagged metal fields and into something more majestic, something that is beautiful in its simplicity. Here is a ma...