The Load-In January is, by and large, a miserable time. I think we can all agree with that, even if we’re not being frozen solid like Chicago. With the excesses of Christmas rapidly becoming a distant memory, we are left with long, dark, cold nights, and largely empty bank accounts. …
Hello, and welcome to the final post we will have about 2018! Yes, it’s late January. And yes, this is coming out much later than in previous years. After several years of completely burning myself out assembling these industry lists, I made the decision early on in planning out our…
There are bands that catch like fire, spreading from one social circle to the next as their music consumes the attention of everyone who touches them. You first see their names crop up here and there on the edges, among members who are most well versed in new music being…
You’ve seen it. You’ve debated it. You’ve cried over it. But what’s done is done: Our list of the best albums of the year is behind us, and there is much rejoicing. But what about the albums we loved that didn’t make the final cut?
Four years ago, I started to keep a complete list of every band I saw. Three years ago, I began kicking myself for not starting that childishly simple task sooner. Never mind. At least I can tell you exactly what I got up to this year – with one important caveat. A…
The Load In The gig drought continues. Admittedly, I was out of the country (again) for a good chunk of the month and, typically, almost everything I wanted to see in October happened whilst I was away. I was particularly annoyed to miss Sleep Token’s first headline show, taking place…
The Load-In When you live in a big city, you get used to the transport network being fantastically busy all of the time, especially when most people are trying to get to or from work. Yet every now and then, things will suddenly become freakishly quiet. Through a bizarre and…
Listen: it’s no secret (because we choose not to make it a secret) that a vast majority of the writers and editors here at Heavy Blog belong to the left side of the political map. There are exceptions and there is variety; “the left” is not some monolithic, featureless plateau…
The Load-In My July, as you may have already seen from my review, is always dominated by Tech Fest. For the last six consecutive summers, I’ve enjoyed a highly concentrated weekend of general merriment, sub drops, breakdowns and attempting to headbang in 7/4. Which is super. In addition to the…
The UK is built for boring weather; the kind of weather where it’s not really nasty enough to warrant staying inside, but not really nice enough to make it worth going out, either. Basically, weather we can grumble about in queues before we get bored and go off and colonise…
