Reviews archive

March 2026

Filter

Year
Month

23 articles

March 30
- "She's skipping, spinning, hollering and slapping the hell out of her frame drum when she’s not riling the crowd up." Mysterious Viking war trance duo Eihwar bring a party like no other to London
- “Makes Hieronymus Bosch’s visions of Hell look like a nursery school”: Thrash veterans Kreator bring demons, wicker men and the most fire this side of Parkway Drive to stunning London show
- "Blessedly free of vibraphones and scatological humour." Todd Rundgren delights some and confounds others on A Wizard, A True Star
March 27
- "This is a record about identity, legacy, survival." Suzi Quatro refuses to dim the lights on 18th album Freedom
- "Notable for not including anything new or previously unreleased." The Expanded Edition of Van Halen's 5150 is bigger but not necessarily better
- "Blackwater Park confirmed Opeth as one of the most inventive, indefinable bands in metal." A mesmerisingly brilliant prog-metal album's quarter-century celebration
March 26
- "Eyes pop, brains explode, jaws smack hard on the venue floor." Mogwai summon a post-rock apocalypse in London's most refined concert hall by invitation of The Cure's Robert Smith
March 24
- "I felt like an absurd grunge Cinderella, who’d found herself with VIP access to the ball." Melissa Auf der Maur's '90s rock memoir Even The Good Girls Will Cry is frank, fearless and fabulously revelatory
March 23
- "On paper, it's hard to imagine Ronstadt as a road-weary trucker, but she completely owns Lowell George's Willin'." Linda Ronstadt gently explores an eclectic selection of songs on Heart Like A Wheel
March 19
- Pro-Ject E1.2 turntable review: A stellar turntable that's simply hard to beat for the price
- "A mix of surreal, supercilious satire and puerile lewdness." Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and The Mothers' Bongo Fury, revisited and expanded
- "Raw, hungry, and already road-honed by years of gigging." The Legendary Edition of Aerosmith's debut album expands the original with live and session tracks
March 18
- "One of America's great bands just got a little bit greater." Tedeschi Trucks Band continue the search for transcendence on the sublime Future Soul
March 16
- Audio-Technica AT-LP70XBT review: An automatic turntable all-but guaranteed to go the distance
- "Heathen finds Bowie settling into his role as elder statesman of the post-punk art rock movement." David Bowie successfully charts a path into his later years with the help of a returning friend
March 12
- "They combine the best parts of Rammstein, Iron Maiden and Ghost". Flame-throwing organs, witch burnings and inflatable pickaxes: Heavy metal's nerdiest subgenre just conquered one of the UK's most iconic arenas
March 10
- "Rich Robinson is an honours graduate from Keef university but he's funkier than the master has been in decades." The Black Crowes' blessed resurrection keeps rolling on A Pound Of Feathers
- "This is a mallet to the back of the skull to anyone who believed their best days were behind them." One of metal's greatest modern bands have made their best album in over a decade: Lamb Of God's Into Oblivion slays
March 9
- "A stylus-melting red-hot riff-o-rama that demands to be played loud." AC/DC are captured in their hungry prime on If You Want Blood You've Got It
March 6
- "We wanted a song about castles and crossbows." The magical relationship between Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio celebrated on the monumental Rainbow - The Temple Of The King 1975-76
March 2
- Audio-Technica AT-SB727 Sound Burger turntable review
March 1
- "An unexpurgated burst of creativity with no nuance or tact or second-guessing. Just raw, hard rock frenzy unleashed." Japan's Flower Travellin' Band aren't for the faint-hearted on proto-prog-guitar-wigout Satori
- "There's no tanks, fantastical swordfights or bloody executions, just sweat, songs and almighty sing-alongs: rock'n'roll at its very best." Foo Fighters return to their punk roots in a very sweaty Manchester club