John Robb
Editor-in-Chief at Louder Than War
My best selling 'The Art Of Darkness - the History Of Goth' is available from here https://t.co/wIJxQgilXF
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The Farm – Let The Music (Take Control) (Modern Sky)LP | CD | DLOut Now4/5Long-term Liverpool band, commentators of terrace culture and hit makers in the baggy wars come up trumps with late period bloom. The Farm go back a long way, the Liverpool based band emerged in post punk with a fusion of Madness and the Jam and were John Peel faves with their brass fuelled, sprightly, linear modish take on punk.
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Arkayla instagramThe quest for a perfect guitar pop was a serious business in the post-punk era, and nowhere got as close as in Scotland with Postcard Records. With its stylised brilliance, classic guitars and even more classic frantic strummed riffs and blue boy melodies that melted from the grooves the label was an instant collector classic with a stunning series of seven inch singles.
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louderthanwar.com | John Robb
Phillip Boa and the Voodoo Club are genuine legends of the German music scene. Emerging in the mid-80s, their mix of British post-punk with a genuine German twist created a perfect hybrid that saw them score many top ten German albums which helped to change the German music scene and empower it.
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New artist of the day : Last ApolloWith songs full of a dark forest/dark folk grandeur, Last Apollo is a startling newcomer. Her new song, ‘Dandelion’, claims to be ‘Dreamy, Fierce, Tender, Haunting…’It is all of these but more. It sounds intimate and yet passionate. It’s poetic, eloquent and full of emotional intelligence and paints enthralling pictures with its stark and gorgeous melodic adventures.
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louderthanwar.com | John Robb
Arkayla | FlorentenesManchester GorillaJune 13 2025Arkayla and Florentenes are two new young Manchester guitar bands for the future and two fast-rising young Manchester bands prove that the power of guitar, bass, and drums is eternal and the city of guitars has two more young contenders for future pop/noise. Despite the naysayers, decades into the pop culture journey four lads playing guitars is as evocative as ever.
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Louder Than War festival announces Sea Power as headliner of our inaugural live music festival. Tickets and more info from here https://t.co/PL4MtiekNO via @louderthanwar
Louder Than War festival announces Sea Power as headliner of our inaugural live music festival. Tickets and more info from here https://t.co/PL4MtiekNO via @louderthanwar