Joe Goggins

Manchester

Music Journalist at Freelance

Contributing Writer at Rolling Stone UK

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Articles

Outbreak 2025 - Festival Review

6 days ago | louderthanwar.com | Joe Goggins

Outbreak Festival 2025Bowlers Exhibition Centre, Manchester & Victoria Park, London13th –15th June 2025The mecca of hardcore delivers its most diverse and intense instalment to dateAs the UK’s musical grassroots faces a tougher reality than ever, what a joy it is to see a success story like Outbreak Festival in action.
McKinley Dixon on his genre-bending, mystical fifth album 'Magic, Alive!' • Interview • DIY Magazine

1 week ago | diymag.com | Joe Goggins

A master of genre-bending, boundary-pushing reinvention, on fifth studio album ‘Magic, Alive!’ McKinley Dixon is casting story-led spells of a different kind. If you’re yet to hop on the McKinley Dixon train, now would be a good time. Be warned in advance, though, that it moves at breakneck speed.
caroline - caroline 2

1 week ago | theskinny.co.uk | Joe Goggins

Album title: caroline 2 Artist: caroline Label: Rough Trade Release date: 30 May If you’ve been wondering where all of the original ideas have gone in modern rock, it might be that caroline have been hoarding them. On this searingly inventive miracle of a second record from the London eight-piece, everything feels new, even identifying individual influences is a relatively straightforward process.
The Hotelier: Academy 3, Manchester - Live Review

3 weeks ago | louderthanwar.com | Joe Goggins

The HotelierAcademy 3, Manchester28th May 2025The emo favourites’ return gathers pace as they lead a night of singalongs in Manchester. Reports of The Hotelier’s demise appear to have been greatly exaggerated. The Massachusetts outfit placed themselves at the vanguard of a scintillating new wave of emo bands during the 2010s, putting out three records that blended elements of indie rock and post-hardcore and played around with the parameters of what a modern emo band should sound like.
Demise of Love - Demise of Love

4 weeks ago | diymag.com | Joe Goggins

4 Stars Excitingly, there’s the sense that this first four-track salvo is a mere tune-up. Released: 30th May 2025 Label: Domino Daniel Avery claims that Demise of Love went into the studio for the first time “armed only with a love for each other’s work,” and it shows. This is quite the opening statement from the trio, completed by Syd Minsky-Sargeant of Working Men’s Club and James Greenwood of Ghost Culture, all singular electronic firebrands.
Matt Berninger - Get Sunk

4 weeks ago | diymag.com | Joe Goggins

4 Stars The sound of him really beginning to stretch his legs as a solo artist. Released: 30th May 2025 Label: Book / Concord Of all the peculiar spectacles the pandemic provided us with, the lead singer of arguably America’s most beloved indie rock band making his solo debut at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds last month is right up there with the strangest.
These New Puritans: “If you’re always trying to chase what sounds new, you’re bound to sound old”

1 month ago | nme.com | Joe Goggins

Jack and George Barnett are proof positive that progress is a slow process – the Southend twins’ fifth record, ‘Crooked Wing’, is only their second since 2013. Their glacial rate of return becomes more understandable, though, when you consider that every record they’ve made as These New Puritans has involved a daring and wholesale reinvention.
Bruce Springsteen’s Manchester return was an electrifying anti-Trump triumph

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Joe Goggins

Bruce Springsteen made his name writing torch songs that roared in support of the blue-collar American. His most revered records, from Darkness on the Edge of Town to Nebraska, are fraught with the tension of balancing his deep love for his homeland with his indignation at its inequalities.
Guest Opinion: Common Ground Summit seeks to unite livestock industry

1 month ago | wlj.net | Joe Goggins

I really feel the need to inform you all about the “Common Ground Summit” meeting that was held in Denver, CO, April 21-23. In my opinion, this meeting was nothing short of historic for the beef industry. It was—without question—the most memorable and impactful experience I’ve ever had the opportunity to be a part of!Forty stakeholders, from all across the U.S., from diverse backgrounds, operations and organizational affiliations, attended.
Father John Misty: Apollo, Manchester - Live Review

2 months ago | louderthanwar.com | Joe Goggins

Father John MistyApollo, Manchester13th April 2025The post-modern troubadour brings his fabulously varied new record to Manchester. Tonight, Josh Tillman opens his set with that might be the outstanding track from his latest album, the low-key disco groove of I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All.