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March 2022

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March 31
- Review: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are back and it sure feels good
March 29
- Jimi Hendrix: Band Of Gypsys - Album Of The Week Club review
March 28
- Carpenter Brut’s Leather Terror: murder on the dancefloor
March 27
- Meshuggah’s Immutable: still running rings around every other metal band on the planet
March 25
- Hoodoo Gurus return with a raucous scramble of garage guitars and kinky lyrics
- Hardcore Superstar thrust more crotch as Abrakadabra veers toward pastiche
- The stars shine as respect is paid to a late great on Legacy: A Tribute To Leslie West
- Robert Plant favourites Tinariwen still mesmerise on reissued albums
- Placebo's Never Let Me Go is paranoid, euphoric, and surprisingly timely
- Loop's new album is designed to pin your psyche to the wall at maximum volume
March 24
- Architects’ For Those That Wish To Exist At Abbey Road is the perfect live album for 2022
- Dave Grohl’s Dream Widow is the ultimate love letter to extreme metal
- Animals As Leaders’ Parrhesia album: molten noise meets next-level virtuosity
March 23
- Soul Glo's Diaspora Problems: "like Animal from The Muppets getting p***ed up and finding a snare drum at a funeral"
March 22
- Abbath’s Dread Reaver: black metal icon hits the sweet spot between Motörhead, Bathory and Kiss
March 21
- Placebo's Never Let Me Go: first album in nine years is worth the wait
- Motley Crue: Motley Crue - Album Of The Week Club review
March 18
- Midlake - For The Sake Of Bethel Woods: "Nursery Cryme-era Genesis meets Crosby, Stills & Nash"
- Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert In The Blue Forest: "a masterpiece"
- Stone Axe revisit the past again on love letter to classic rock Stay Of Execution
- Melodic rock veterans FM deliver hooks galore on ageless album Thirteen
- Von Hertzen Brothers' new album Red Alert In The Blue Forest is a captivating experience
- Pleasant but never bland, Midlake's For The Sake Of Bethel Woods mulls over time, illness and innocence
- Shot through with urgency, Torpedo finds Feeder still at their peak
March 15
- Eric Wagner’s In The Lonely Light Of Mourning is a fitting epitaph for the voice of doom
- Pat Benatar: Crimes Of Passion - Album Of The Week Club review
March 11
- Loop - Sonancy: "a seamless alliance of intensified sonics"
- Jenny Hval - Classic Objects: "casts a potent spell"
- HammerFall bring the bombast as Hammer Of Dawn delivers big on action and small on surprises
- Ghost's Impera: large doses of schlock but marginally more meaty
- Business as usual for Bryan Adams but there's a lot to like about So Happy It Hurts
- Shaman’s Harvest offer real weight and power on the impressive Rebelator
March 8
- Sony WF-1000XM4 review
March 7
- Ho99o9’s Skin: hip hop/punk riotstarters are out to f**k with your head
- Roxy Music: Roxy Music - Album Of The Week Club review
March 6
- Ghost’s Impera album is the 80s arena rock banger to end 80s arena rock bangers
March 4
- Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark: "grabs the listener by the lapels"
- Marillion's new album is dramatic, hopeful, and one of the finest of their career
- Stereophonics keep up the good work on Oochya!, with a few surprises
- Kris Barras broadens his horizons on Death Valley Paradise, but not by much
- Things Are Great by Band Of Horses is a minor wonder of wit, weight and emotion