Louder Than War

Louder Than War is a dedicated platform for music and culture, primarily highlighting alternative arts through news, reviews, and features. Founded in 2010 by journalist John Robb, this independent publication is now managed by a team of journalists alongside a global network of freelance contributors. Since 2015, Louder Than War has also published a print version. The website focuses on providing live concert reviews, album critiques, and artist interviews. In 2012, Louder Than War expanded by establishing a record label aimed at supporting and promoting emerging bands and artists.

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casual smart: cranes - Single Review

2 days ago | louderthanwar.com | Simon Lucas-Hughes

casual smart: cranesSelf ReleaseDLOut NowCardiff newcomers casual smart share the new single cranes – a buoyant and heartfelt blend of endearing anti-folk and impassioned bedroom-rock into a tasteful indie-post-punk package.
The Farm come up trumps with late period bloom.

3 days ago | louderthanwar.com | John Robb

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.
Arkayla

4 days ago | louderthanwar.com | John Robb

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.
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.
Download 2025: Weds / Thurs / Fri - Festival Review

6 days ago | louderthanwar.com | Dave Beech

Download – Days One, Two and ThreeDonington Park, Derbyshire11th-15th June 2024The UK’s biggest alternative festival, Download, returns to the hallowed grounds of Donington for yet another year. How does it hold up for Louder Than War’s Dave Beech and Rebecca Bush, who are there to find out. While for some it’s just a music festival, for others it’s a pilgrimage.
Phillip Boa

1 week ago | 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.
100% Wet: 100% Wet - Album Review

1 week ago | louderthanwar.com | Alex Maiolo

100% Wet: 100% WetCrunchy FrogAll formatsOut nowEvery generation has its complaints about what the kids are up to “these days.”Currently a good number of the olds absurdly assert there is “too much music out there.”Understandably, it can be hard to know where to start. However, for a gen that grew up genreless, immersed in an all-you-can-eat buffet of music and mash-up culture, this means just jumping into the stream and being unencumbered by the tribalism of the past.
With songs full of a dark forest/dark folk grandeur, Last Apollo is a startling newcomer.

1 week ago | louderthanwar.com | John Robb

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.
Arkayla | Florentenes: Gorilla, Manchester - Live Review

1 week ago | 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.
Supergroup We Were Kings on turning grief into tunes

1 week ago | louderthanwar.com | Sam Lambeth

When a friend and talented songwriter sadly passed away before his time, his friends channeled their grief into the medium they know best – music. Sam Lambeth spoke to We Were Kings about recording their late comrade’s songs and raising money for charity. Most supergroups form in happy, rather bougie circumstances. The Travelling Wilburys joined forces one sunkissed afternoon in a recording studio after a luxurious lunch in California.