Reviews
[Album Review] Garden City Movement – Apollonia
Altwire Staff
After 3 EPs in the span of many years, a remix album, as well as several collaborations in between, it is here in 2018 that Garden City Movement, the alternative, electronica and indie pop ...
[Album Review] Stone Temple Pilots – Self Titled (2018)
Altwire Staff
The first item to address when we talk about Stone Temple Pilots is Jeff Gutt. The third permanent front man for STP already has a long standing link to the band having had former ...
[Album Review] Three Days Grace – Outsider
M. Stoneman
Every anger-induced, angst-ridden kid from the early 2000s remembers blasting MTV’s greatest rock music videos. Probably through cheap stereo subwoofers rigged into your overpriced Sony flat screen (which your dad still insists was a ...
[Album Review] Tory Lanez – MEMORIES DON’T DIE
Altwire Staff
Less than two years after the success of his debut album I Told You, Tory Lanez releases his sophomore album. On MEMORIES DON’T DIE, he features: Future, Wiz Khalifa, 50 Cent, Nav, Fabolous, Paloma ...
[Album Review] Mountains Of The Moon – Tiger’s Tongue
M. Stoneman
This one is a little late to the party, having been released mid-January, but every so often there comes something you stumble upon that stops you in your tracks, and can’t help but hold ...
[Album Review] Soccer Mommy – Clean
M. Stoneman
Basking in downtempo mellow instrumentation, and soothing reminiscences through the likes of “everybody’s changing and their moving away – I kissed you hardest on the moving day”, it’s not at all difficult to find ...
[Album Review] Pale Waves – All The Things I Never Said EP
M. Stoneman
Formed in 2014, Pale Waves are a Manchester indie pop quartet that, since releasing their critically acclaimed 2017 debut singles, ‘There’s a Honey’, and ‘Television Romance’, have been making it big, and making it ...
2 Mello: Memories of Tokyo-To | An Epic Tribute
Altwire Staff
Matthew Hopkins, who goes by the name of “2 Mello” puts his spin on the iconic Jet Set Radio soundtrack. Read our review here! In the year 2000 North America saw the release of ...
[Album Review] First Aid Kit – Ruins
Altwire Staff
From out of the humble beginnings of singing carefree as fans at a public festival, and from out of Enskede, near the very heart of Sweden’s lovely capital city of Stockholm, come the indie/folk ...
[Album Review] Vance Joy – Nation Of Two
Altwire Staff
James Keogh, better known by his stage name Vance Joy, became an international success with ‘Riptide’, a multi-platinum single from his debut album Dream Your Life Away. Now, Nation Of Two is the follow-up ...
[Concert Review] Bowling For Soup – O2 Academy Glasgow 02/09/18
Altwire Staff
Usually when Bowling For Soup come to town you know you’re in for a party. At the February 9th, 2018 O2 Academy Glasgow show, the band’s opening song “The Last Rock Show” set the ...
[Album Review] The Plot In You – Dispose
M. Stoneman
While certainly originating from a genre plenty over saturated, if there ever was a more charismatic metalcore front-man of the last decade, The Plot In You’s Landon Tewers would undoubtedly be an easy contender. ...
[Album Review] The Wandering Hearts – Wild Silence
M. Stoneman
Since early beginnings on SoundCloud, recent new management, and establishing themselves deep in the style of classic American country and folk-pop, London-based act, The Wandering Hearts, are making waves, and making them quickly. Having recently kicked off ...
[Album Review] The Wombats – Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life
Altwire Staff
Hailing from Liverpool, England is a collective of three musicians that make up the indie-pop/rock band that call themselves The Wombats. The band had reached critical acclaim with their hit single release “Let’s Dance ...
[Single Review] Upsahl – “Kiss Me Now”
Altwire Staff
Singer-Songwriter and Phoenix, Arizona native Taylor Upsahl, AKA “Upsahl” has been making music since she was 13 years old and released a self-titled alternative folk EP by the time she was 14. And, while ...
[Album Review] Jeff Rosenstock – POST-
Altwire Staff
2017 was a wild ride for the USA, and these constant news stories, especially under Trump, don’t look to be stopping anytime soon in 2018. Nobody has been feeling as much confusion as Jeff ...
[Album Review] Wild Child – Expectations
M. Stoneman
Wild Child are something of a wonderful find. Since their inception in 2010, the Austin, Texas group has steadily been capturing the hearts of a rapidly expanding audience, their beautiful, crooning indie-pop vocals and enthralling, ...
[Album Review] Legend Of The Seagullmen (Self-Titled)
M. Stoneman
While there are plenty of examples of notable established artists banding together, often leading to exciting results, such as Hollywood Vampires, A Perfect Circle and Alter Bridge, if the obnoxious, exaggerative term ‘super-group’ wasn’t already enough of an ...
[Album Review] The Shins – The Worm’s Heart
Altwire Staff
The Shins are a curious sort of band, somehow always seeming to drift quietly in the overflowing waters that fill the endless sea of indie music, reach periodic acclaim, disappear in the ether, only ...
[Album Review] AWOLNATION- Here Comes The Runts
M. Stoneman
Citing influences from the likes of Michael Jackson to Madonna, to Prince and Nirvana, lead vocalist and frontman Aaron Bruno’s ever-shifting style throughout his many projects, consistently dropping older ideas in favor of a newer approach when possible, can perhaps best ...
