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Leeds Festival, it’s never going to be the warmest festival and it is usually overshadowed by Reading. However, armed with a few layers of thermals, Impact sought out the charms of the festival located in a field just off the M62. There is little disagreement that Arctic Monkeys stole the show, performing... -
As much as I love The Gaslight Anthem, I can’t quite get over the feeling that they were carefully designed as the ultimate guilty pleasure for guys like me. It’s not that they are bad, but their particular brand of nostalgic longing for a mythical golden age of Americana... -
Beacons Festival 2014 Highlights Set in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales and under some stormy Skipton skies, Beacons Festival once again brought together some of the world’s finest musical talents, arts and unparalleled festival food. Void of all of the mainstream commercialisation of the bigger festivals, another successful... -
Feeling glum as your holidays wind to a close? Already starting to feel down about the prospect of trudging ‘back to school’ in a few depressingly short weeks? Why not chase away those summertime blues with some nihilistic Sludgecore courtesy of Buffalo, NY’s Water Torture? I came across this... -
In the midst of the often laughably misguided wave of seemingly relentless 90’s nostalgia currently invading every aspect of popular culture, an exciting new batch of bands have arrived on the DIY punk scene to breathe new life into a dying genre. In the wake of the underground success... -
By rule of thumb, the first bands to achieve crossover success from marginal genres do so by completely compromising their values and/or by consciously altering their sound to suit a mainstream palate. Subsequently, creativity stagnates and identical records are churned out for the next decade. It’s bad enough when...
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