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May 2022

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May 26
- Coheed And Cambria’s Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind: the alt-prog empire strikes back
- Coheed & Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window On The Waking Mind: "doing whatever the hell they want"
May 25
- Dirty Honey conjure up the ghosts of classic Zeppelin and Aerosmith on expanded debut
May 23
- 10 things we learned from the brand new season of Stranger Things
- Dr. Feelgood: Stupidity - Album Of The Week Club review
May 20
- xPropaganda - The Heart Is Strange: "a compelling listen"
- The expanded Combat Rock is a magnificent, vital snapshot of The Clash’s glorious last stand
- Grunting, sweating, greasy downer rock from the dawn of the 70s? Step right this way
- NWOBHM footnotes Prowler finally achieve the full package
- Quartz recall purer, simpler times on riotous but poignant On The Edge Of Tomorrow
- Cave In explore the noisy landscape between grunge and metalcore on Heavy Pendulum
- Anvil's Impact Is Imminent is thunderous, goofy, and impishly diverse
- Evergrey: more crunching prog as brutal riff power pounds into the gothic bleakness
- James LaBrie: Beautiful Shade Of Grey album review
May 19
- Alpine MusicSafe Pro earplugs review
May 18
- Fender Musician Ear Plugs review
May 17
- Here's what it was like watching grime-punks Bob Vylan tear up a tiny venue in Milton Keynes
May 16
- Jeff Buckley: Grace - Album Of The Week Club review
May 13
- The Pineapple Thief - Give It Back: "sounding refreshed"
- The Pineapple Thief provide hours of spot-the-difference fun on Give It Back
- The Black Keys' Dropout Boogie: modern rock’n’roll doesn’t get any better than this
- Church Of The Cosmic Skull: your new favourite classic rock hippie sex cult
- Toyah explores unexpected sonic territory on Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!
- There's drama and passion aplenty on the Graham Bonnet Band's Day Out In Nowhere
May 10
- Phil Lynott: Solo In Soho - Album Of The Week Club review
May 9
- Stadium Arcadium: a fluid cruise through the Red Hot Chili Peppers' California
May 6
- Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus: "a multi-faceted beast"
- Halestorm are Back From The Dead and into unashamedly maximalist territory
- Puppy are proof that rock is alive and begging for your attention
- Richard Thompson runs from beauty to cacophony on Grizzly Man soundtrack
- Pure Reason Revolution: Above Cirrus album review
- Stöner's new album is a consummate lesson in High Desert grooviness
- Jeff Scott Soto: solid but frustrating on Complicated solo album
- John Illsley's VIII: a decent album with fining playing but skip the Beatles cover
- Bonham-Bullick: powerful, immaculately played, and perfectly smoky
- The Waterboys find space for romantic and rebellious reflection on All Souls Hill
May 5
- Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Review: the MCU goes full Sam Raimi
- Apple Music review: Apple take a bite out of the competition
May 4
- Beatdown kings Terror’s Pain Into Power is a tough record for tough times
- Puppy’s Pure Evil: riffalicious glory with a side order of earworms
May 2
- Matt Heafy’s black metal passion project Ibaraki hits hard with debut album Rashomon
- Rainbow: Long Live Rock 'N' Roll - Album Of The Week Club review
May 1
- Halestorm’s Back From The Dead: what doesn’t kill Lzzy Hale and co makes them stronger
- Fozzy’s Boombox: bona fide bangers cut through the cheese