[Albumrezension] 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 ...
[Albumrezension] Floating Room – Falsche Taufe
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 von Celldweller
Wenn Sie zu den Leuten gehören, die elektronischen Rock oder Industrial Metal mögen oder vielleicht einfach ein begeisterter Gaming-Fan sind, haben Sie wahrscheinlich schon einmal Klaytons Musik gehört. Von der weit verbreiteten ...
[Albumrezension] Other Americans (Selbsttitel) [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 ...
[Albumrezension] Becky and the Birds (Selbsttitel) [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 von Blue Stahli und Sunset Neon
Bret Autrey von Blue Stahli und Sunset Neon hat sich kürzlich mit AltWire zu einem ausführlichen Interview getroffen. Sehen Sie es sich hier an!
[AltWire-Interview] Dan Voicians von Voicians
Voicians ist das vielseitige Electronic-Rock-Projekt des deutschen Künstlers und Produzenten Dan Voicians. Bekannt für die Produktion packender Electronic-Rock-Tracks auf den Alben A Matter of Time oder dem neueren Wasteland und die Zusammenarbeit mit ...
[Albumrezension] Falling From Trees – Schlaflose Nächte
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 von The Anix + neue 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 ...
[Albumrezension] 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 ...
[Albumrezension] 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 ...
[Albumrezension] 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 ...
[Lieder für den Frühling] 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: Ein Gespräch mit Leo, Adam und 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 ...
[Albumrezension] Shinedown – Achtung Achtung
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 ...
[Konzertbericht] Awolnation im Scala – London, Großbritannien 22.04.18
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 von LEDGER: Hinter ihrem verletzlichen Debüt
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 veröffentlicht EP „Hydrograd Acoustic Sessions“
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 ...
[Albumrezension] 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 ...