Ah – the second day of a hard-rocking music festival. It’s the morning after the first full-on, drink-until-your-liver-surrenders night before. A time when early risers head for the day’s openi

Opening the Saturn stage this overcast Saturday morning is none other than satirical songster Richard Cheese and his wonderfully titled, Los Angeles based cover band, Lounge Against The Machine

With a strong metallic aftertaste sticking to the back of my throat, it’s left up to pioneering punk-rock band Bad Religion to remove the residue. Any computer game geek in my balding age brack

If there’s one band on this weekend’s festival bill sure to act as my musical Delorean its Canadian rock outfit Sum 41 – a band who’ve been reliably ripping out punk-rock anthems since I was

Fresh from their two night stint supporting Foo Fighters at the Milton Keynes National Bowl; a weekend that saw Scotland’s most timid, talented rock trio performing in front of what equated to ha

For the first time all weekend I awake in my tent to the smell of roast nuts. The sun is out and boy is it making up for lost time. With my temporary home now transformed into Sonisphere’s hotte

Anyone waltzing over from watching Volbeat’s phenomenal last-day, first-on performance, realise Black Tide have the mother-of-all-mountains to climb in order to keep the quality sky high. This you

Best Coast's European tour touched London just once this year at KOKO with the support of Spectrals, the quieter rockstars in the world, with singer Louis Jones (a ginger version of Kyle Falcone

I know it’s not a pleasant way to begin this section but it’s what when down so I owe it to you not to censor my tale. Right now I’m back in the campsite and I’m enduring my first trip to t

Last year I was asked who, in my opinion, would be one to keep an eye on in 2011; as far as the big, wide world of music goes. My first choice was a London-based five-piece by the peculiar name

The expansive area surrounding stage two is now teeming with party people; people who have happily sacrificed catching Mastodon’s metallic onslaught in order to secure a good plot of land for t

On this, the second Sunday in July, with mere minutes to go until the arrival of this pitiful planet’s greatest modern, metal legion, the anticipation becomes almost too excruciating to bear. T

I admit I didn't know anything about the Macedonian music scene until now, but, after listening to Herzel and his countryman Sasko Kostov, who does the vocals in the first track of this short-leng

As genres go, ska punk is among the more maligned at the moment. After the boom of third wave bands in the late 1990s/early 2000s, opinion has been somewhat divided between people who love it a

Afro-Jazz singer and composer Teni has joined with the legendary Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen to create her debut single “Afrodisiac” from her upcoming 2012 album, also titled Afrodisiac. Teni

Having composed a track for the Twilight Official Soundtrack (sung by Robert Pattinson), which received a colossal amount of hits on Myspace and working his way up the hard way (without name-droppi