Steve Beebee

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Recorded in the wake of Shirley’s lengthy and painful recovery from a hip replacement operation, it’s also a set that looks for hope. She documents her tramadol-laced comeback in unflinching manner on The Day That I Met God, while the massively contoured, beautifully melodic Love To Give offers the bursts of optimism she struggled to find during that phase. As always, Garbage cannot resist lashing out at the madness of a society that has placed borderline pyschopaths in control of superpowers.

2 weeks ago | kerrang.com | Steve Beebee

You face a dilemma when most people know you for music created three decades ago. While proud of your legacy, like any normal human being you’ve changed since then. Perhaps this – the compromise of meeting expectation with representing who you actually are – is the reason Skunk Anansie haven’t released an album for nine years. In the end, Skin and her loyal cohorts have simply taken the plunge.

3 weeks ago | kerrang.com | Steve Beebee

Frontman of quirky, glam-tinted rockers Måneskin, there’s clearly a chunk more to the annoyingly chisel-cheeked Damiano David than we thought. He’s not done bad so far – give or take Lacuna Coil, Måneskin are the only Italian rock band to genuinely break through, and doing so off the back of a 2021 Eurovision win is entirely typical of their oddness. This first solo offering, however, is something else again – an almost complete diversion from anywhere our man has been before.

1 month ago | kerrang.com | Steve Beebee |Jimmy Fontaine

April 29, 2025Words:Steve BeebeePhotos:Jimmy FontaineYou might be at the top of the mountain, distance travelled perfectly visible, and still somehow feel shredded by self-doubt. Even Lzzy Hale, one of the biggest voices in rock and one of its most inspiring figures, suffers from imposter syndrome.

2 months ago | kerrang.com | Steve Beebee

It turns out that a change is as good as a rest. For Mark Morton, the 52-year-old guitarist in eternal metal champs Lamb Of God, there’s clearly more to life than massive riffs and sludgy heft, great though he is at those things. Last year’s purgative biography, tellingly titled Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir revealed some of the challenges, physical and mental, that Mark has found a way to survive.