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[Album Review] 5 Seconds of Summer – Youngblood
Like the Busted’s and Mcfly’s of the early 2000s, 5 Seconds of Summer’s sound and style has always been a calculated and consciously safe one. In implementing casual lyricism with playful melodic hooks, the ...
[Album Review] Floating Room – False Baptism
I remember the exact moment I realized I had completely fallen in love with moody, beautifully textured indie rock. Spending a long, bored night tumbling down the endless rabbit hole of the internet, I ...
[AltWire Interview] Klayton of Celldweller
If you’re the kind of person who enjoys electronic rock, industrial metal, or perhaps are simply an avid gaming fan, then the chances are you’ve heard Klayton’s music in the past. From the widely ...
[Album Review] Other Americans (Self Titled) [EP]
It’s funny, the incredible effect of hearing something that immediately captures your attention from the very first second. There’s a sudden rigidity that holds you in place, an almost primal fear of what caught ...
[Album Review] Becky and the Birds (Self Titled) [EP]
These days, originality is a hard thing to come by and if there ever was a more guilty genre to display this, modern pop and R&B sits at the very top of the list. ...
[AltWire Interview] Bret Autrey of Blue Stahli and Sunset Neon
Bret Autrey of Blue Stahli and Sunset Neon recently sat down with AltWire for a wide-ranging interview. Check it out here!
[AltWire Interview] Dan Voicians of Voicians
Voicians is the multi-faceted electronic rock project of German artist/producer Dan Voicians. Known for producing enthralling electronic rock tracks throughout albums A Matter of Time or the more recent Wasteland and collaborating with the ...
[Album Review] Falling From Trees – Sleepless Nights
As a creator, your earliest ventures can either be something to be proud of or what eventually cause you to shudder in disapproval in the years to come. It’s natural to feel that your ...
[AltWire Interview] Brandon Smith of The Anix + New Single
Following a restructuring of the project and having recently been signed to independent Detroit label FiXT, electronic rock artist The Anix has been hard at work. Having released his debut FiXT track ‘Fight The ...
[Album Review] Circle of Dust – alt_Machines
While Klayton’s most playful persona was recently revisited with Scandroid’s latest remix album, Dreams in Monochrome, Circle of Dust easily represents the most aggressive side of things for the Detroit producer/musician. Following almost two ...
[Album Review] TT – LoveLaws
“I need a little room to sway.” Exquisite Corpse is a tremendously beautiful piece of work. Be it the dreamy, lullaby tones of ‘Billie Holiday’, or perhaps the gorgeously absorbing layers of reverb drenching ...
[Album Review] William Ryan Key – Thirteen (EP)
It hasn’t been an easy 18 months for the world of music. From the likes of Tom Petty to Chuck Berry, to Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington, and the recent tragic news of Scott ...
[Songs For Spring] Becky and the Birds – Concept Store
While the incoming dizzying and vibrant summer tones (and pulsing, infectious holiday beats that tend to accompany it) are always entertaining and fun to play with, spring tends to lean towards being far more ...
Falling From Trees Interview: A Chat With Leo, Adam and Rebecca
Falling From Trees is an English rock quintet hailing from Norwich, UK. Having already released EP’s On and On and Words, the band’s newest single ‘Dirty Footprints’ saw the group re-established as a full ...
[AltWire Interview] Alton Wahlberg
I had the pleasure of meeting English singer-songwriter Alton Wahlberg during a live evening in Norwich, UK at Epic Studios. Mixing classic acoustic rock elements with a truly honest lyrical perspective, Alton Wahlberg‘s style ...
[Album Review] Shinedown – Attention Attention
It’s fair to say that Shinedown are the kind of band where you know exactly what you pay for. Mixing hard rock with flavours of heavier post-grunge, The Sound of Madness effectively stands as ...
[Concert Review] Awolnation at Scala – London, UK 04/22/18
A few months ago I covered Awolnation’s latest studio effort Here Come The Runts in a review here on AltWire, offering my thoughts and feelings on what I felt was an incredibly captivating and ...
Jen Ledger of LEDGER: Behind Her Vulnerable Debut
Having now spent a decade performing with American Christian rock giants Skillet, from 2009’s Awake through to the band’s latest offering, Unleashed, drummer and backing vocalist Jen Ledger has become an essential element to ...
Stone Sour To Release ‘Hydrograd Acoustic Sessions’ EP
Following the success of 2017 studio effort, Hydrograd, American rock act Stone Sour are to release an acoustic EP featuring four tracks from the album. At a lengthier 15 tracks, Hydrograd was acclaimed for ...
[Album Review] A Perfect Circle – Eat The Elephant
It starts slowly. A swell of thousands of excited voices in unison, then quelled gently by Maynard’s solitary introductory vocal, “from dehumanization to arms production, we hasten this nation towards its destruction.” A sweetly sinister ...
