Girls With Guitars Gonna Shake: compilation review
Straight outta garageland: here comes Girls With Guitars Gonna Shake, the long awaited fourth instalment of this Ace Records CD…
Chroma: interview
The following interview was initiated last week and completed on the very cusp of Chroma’s high-energy performance at last weekend's…
The Hercury Music Prize 2022 – shortlist announcement
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: the dawning of the Hercury Music Award.
Shooting Daggers: Athames – EP review
Shooting Daggers are a pretty irresistible prospect on paper, an impressive first listen on record, and your new favourite band…
Dusty Sings Soul: compilation review
If you treat yourself to a copy of this brand-new Ace Records compilation - and you should - you will…
The Empty Page: interview
Last time we had Manchester's The Empty Page on a LOUD WOMEN stage it was 2016, which is pretty much…
Hagar the Womb: interview
We are delighted to welcome punk legends Hagar the Womb to LOUD WOMEN Fest this year. Buoyed (or perhaps grrrled)…
The 2021 Hercury Prize Shortlist
Clearly there was frenzied artistic activity between strictly-observed lockdowns this year, with the dozens of albums below as aural evidence.…
Classic LOUD WOMEN Album: Mambo Taxi – In Love With (1994)
‘In Love With’ – a few slow-burning songs aside - is an album of wall-to-wall tuneful punk bangers. I’d be…
Classic LOUD WOMEN LP: The Passions – Thirty Thousand Feet Over China
Just one of several squat-based post-punk groups to remake/remodel themselves as 80s popstars (see also Scritti Politti, Thompson Twins), The…