Day two of Outbreak 2026 sees the opening of a larger outdoor stage, which subsequently becomes the festival’s main stage. It’s a mixed blessing given the blistering sun which reflects off the ...

Our experience at the leafy, historic Crystal Palace Park is neither. Instead, we get the best that The Offspring and Dropkick Murphys have been in years; tight, ferocious, devoid of the whimsy that ...

The problem is, “That Song” is often the one that doesn’t represent a band’s sound as a whole – think The Stranglers ‘Golden Brown’ – and that was exactly where Rise Against sat in 2005. ‘Swing Life ...

Outbreak Festival 2026 is filled with nostalgia. There is of course the usual array of hardcore and metal bands – some of which are at the genres’ vanguard – but the occasion has an altogether ...

Nothing holds Download back. Not the mud that covers our boots long before the arena opens, not the 100-metre-long queue for ...

Don’t forget your sunscreen – it’s Download Day Three. A reward for the early risers, Unpeople are here to show off the ...

Clouds threaten, but the only inclement weather on Saturday is ‘November Rain’. Download Day Two sees us fighting for the Fox ...

Hence, ‘Every House We Built’ is difficult to classify. Mostly it’s a series of lush soundscapes that border on soft rock, often it’s the kind of ballad you might find on a film soundtrack but ...

If we have a good chorus, then we have something to build upon.” The Menzingers might be one of the few contemporary punk bands who’ve never changed their lineup, which makes them special on this fact ...

With hindsight, the collaboration between Des Rocs and the Borderlands franchise feels so obvious. Both the artist and the looter-shooter game series channel a renegade energy, whether you’re fighting ...

Motion City Soundtrack have to be having the summer of their lives. Last year they dropped their seventh album, ‘The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World’, and six years after their reformation, Motion ...

Sometimes you just need a little pick-me-up from the stresses of daily life from someone who gets it. That’s what the new Sleeping With Sirens album is; a friend when you’re in need of a helping hand.