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Born in London and raised across Uganda, Ethiopia and the United States, Nanseera draws on her global upbringing to deliver thoughtful songwriting with real emotional weight. Written in a single sitting after weeks of searching for the right words, Poison Rain balances its apocalyptic atmosphere with a sense of hope, while highlighting the importance of protecting civil rights. Speaking on the track, Nanseera explains: “Poison Rain was written in response to the US Supreme Court’s recent decision to significantly weaken the Voting Rights Act… Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg said throwing out anti-discrimination laws that are working is like ‘throwing away…
The album wastes little time setting the tone, with Snoop Dogg joining Kurupt on opener “Sneak Attacc” and returning for “Me N The Boyz.” Elsewhere, the project finally gives an official release to “Mystic River,” a Kurupt and Battlecat collaboration that first surfaced almost 20 years ago, while Jane Handcock appears on “Special.”One of the standout moments comes with “I Don’t Love Her,” featuring BJ The Chicago Kid, Soopafly and Akeem Ali, which flips New Edition’s “If It Isn’t Love” into a smooth G funk cut. Butch Cassidy and RBX also make appearances across a record packed with familiar West…
The phrase “da capo” means “from the head” – and that’s exactly where Arthur Lee was coming from when he created Love’s second album, 1967’s Da Capo. We explored its progressive tendencies in 2018.In September 1966, Love went into RCA Studios on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard to record the follow-up to their self-titled debut album. The LA group employed Dave Hassinger, the same engineer as the Rolling Stones, but the record that emerged was light years away from mainstream contemporary rock.For Da Capo, lead singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Arthur Lee decided to sail uncharted territory. He confounded fans, record label Elektra…
Swedish House Mafia connect with Lykke Li for the first time on Happiness Is So Sad, a melancholic electronic track built around the uncomfortable overlap between pleasure, memory and loss. Produced by Swedish House Mafia, PARISI and Fred again.., the single was recorded in Stockholm, with Max Martin and Oscar Holter also contributing to the songwriting. That heavyweight creative setup does not push the track towards obvious maximalism. Instead, the production leaves space for Li’s emotionally restrained vocal to carry much of the tension.The song explores how a happy moment can become painful once it exists only as memory. Celebration…
Madness – Madrophenia23rd July 2026Madrophenia took place on Brighton Beach on the 26rd July, starring Madness with special guest The Blockheads, Craig Charles, The Selecter and Beatles Dub Club. Tony Clarke reviews the event for Louder Than War.As a dedicated fan of Ska Pop evergreens Madness, I was excited to attend the packed event Madrophenia, which took place in the picturesque setting of Brighton Beach to 10,000 dedicated fans. What’s more, the iconic nutty boys brought in the musical genius of The Blockheads to warm the crowd up. As both bands have collaborated on various projects over the decades, it…
The curtain’s only just come down on this year’s edition of Wacken, but the first wave of bands for next year were announced via an epic multimedia display last night (August 1). Electric Callboy will be making their Wacken debut proper next year after playing an Electric Bassboy set at this year’s festival, while they’ll also be joined by Five Finger Death Punch, Helloween and Wacken regulars Heaven Shall Burn, while Dragonforce are also joining the line-up as a European exclusive. Newly installed vocalist Alissa White-Gluz is pulling double duty this year as Blue Medusa will also be playing. Halestorm…
When Sony and Marvel Studios struck their historic deal back in 2015 to bring Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fandom was collectively holding its breath. We had already seen two distinct live-action iterations of the web-slinger in quick succession, and the prospect of yet another reboot felt, to some, like a dangerous exercise in brand saturation. Enter Tom Holland: a young British actor equipped with gymnast-level agility, an infectious boyish charm, and the terrifying task of stepping into boots previously worn by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.We love the animated Spidey but we are only talking live-action here, sorry.Fast…
Rocky Kramer will be hosting “Birthday Boy” on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 at 7 PM PT for this amazing show. Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world. Rocky has performed on shows with some of the greatest musicians on the planet including Ozzy Osbourne, John Lodge, Steve Vai, Leland Sklar, Kenny Aronoff, Tommy James, Verdeen White, Ten Years After, BuckCherry, Rick Wakeman and more. Rocky’s first studio album, “Firestorm” is now available worldwide through…
Minneapolis-based troubadour draws upon the Creative Spirit in turbulent times.Dark Wings is the eighteenth studio album from the prolific Mason Jennings. With a significant following in the USA and worldwide, new releases from the Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter are eagerly awaited, and this collection of eleven songs will not disappoint his many fans.Onthis recording, Jennings returns to a band format after his primarily solo acoustic album,Magnifier, in 2025. Dark Wings was produced by Scott McPherson, a drummer who Jennings attests has played with “everyone”, the list including Elliott Smith, Beck and She & Him. Basing themselves in a studio workshop at McPherson…
During the almost 55 years since the release of her eponymous debut album, Bonnie Raitt has established herself as a top quality singer and slide guitar player; she has won many awards over her career, including 13 competitive Grammy awards (from 31 nominations), topped off in 2021 by a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She has also performed at nine Grammy Awards ceremonies.I Can’t Make You Love Me featured on Raitt’s 11th (and her biggest selling to date) studio album, 1991’s Luck of the Draw.Raitt used the sleeve notes to dedicate this album to legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, who tragically…
Say She She|PonceauThe Drill Shed, Margate, Kent30th July 2026Say She She, supported by Ponceau, brought their “discodelic soul” and “dreamy harmonies” to the South-East coast to help Margate celebrate 25 years of its now legendary Soul Weekender. In the relatively new and repurposed event space of the 750 capacity Drill Shed, the incredibly talented New York trio of Piya, Sabrina and Alina transferred Manhattan chic to bohemian Margate.Below the lurid orange glow of the iconic Lido sign, and within a stone’s throw of the Kent seaside, Say She She, following in the footsteps of fellow New Yorker Madonna, made Margate…
Things are pretty dramatic in the Slipknot camp right now with the surprise, if unconfirmed, news that Sid Wilson may be out of the band. But then things have always been pretty dramatic when it comes to the most explosive metal band of the last 30 years.That was certainly the case around the time of their second album, Iowa, if producer Ross Robinson is to be believed. Speaking to Metal Hammer in a brand new interview just ahead of the album’s 25th anniversary, Robinson looks back on the internal and external pressures surrounding the band as they worked on the…