Louder Than War

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Louder Than WarScenesWe Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music by Stephanie Phillips – Book Review We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music by Stephanie Phillips Da Capo | 368 pages | published August 27th 2026 in the UK; November 17th 2026 in the U.S.

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Louder Than WarScenesBIG ASS TRUCK I.E.: FOUND ON ROAD DEAD – EP Review Metallic Hardcore assassins from San Bernardino, California gift us a short and blackened chunk of great depth and subtle meaning.

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Louder Than WarScenesEd Blunt: Things No Machine Could Ever Understand – Album Review On his third album singer-songwriter Ed Blunt asks what does it mean to be human in the age of thinking machines. Mark Ray reviews… The world is moving fast.

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Louder Than WarScenesSwansea Sound: pre-post-truth – Album Review Swansea Sound release their third album, pre-post-truth, containing twelve new punk and power-pop tunes on 13th November The indie supergroup christened ‘The C86 Crass’ by comedian Stewart Lee…

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Louder Than WarScenesJabu: Severn Flood Plain/Where You Run To – EP Review Bristol’s Jabu release the “great lost song” of Twin Peaks on their atmospheric new EP. Richard Foster lets it wash over him.

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Louder Than WarScenesDe Kloe: Vanity Fair – Album Review Antwerp’s De Kloe offer up a fascinating, funny and unnerving slice of no-wave-rave absurdism. May I offer my services in this review, oh reader, without the risk of intruding?

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Louder Than WarScenesVanessa Bedoret: About Time – Album Review Vanessa Bedoret explores time, memory and perception on her new album. It’s a trip well worth experiencing. Vanessa Bedoret is a London based French singer songwriter, composer, and vocalist.

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Louder Than WarScenesMuse to headline BST Hyde Park on 26th June 2027 BST Hyde Park has announced that Muse will be its next headliner for 2027 on Saturday 26 June, supported by special guests Nothing But Thieves and CHVRCHES.

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Louder Than WarScenesDylan Taganas: A Moon of Mercury – Album Review I don’t think I have ever heard an album open quite like a band entering the stage, but that’s exactly the feeling created by Dylan Taganas’s new album, A Moon Of Mercury.

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Louder Than WarScenesSimple Things 2026 – Festival Review Simple Things Various venues, Bristol 7th November 2026 Musical styles go through the blender at the mishmash that is Simple Things.

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.