If you’ve been paying attention over the past six months or so, you might have spotted a new Scottish band on the rise. Silver Dollar Room play classic rock riffs but temper tham with an influence that’s best described as melodic grunge. Their early singles shared strong influences from both Stone Temple Pilots and Bush, and at their best, Silver Dollar toom sound like a slightly heavier take on some of those post grunge acts from the late 90s.
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Rare Breed revisit classic pop punk sounds on ‘Out of The Question’
Originally released a year ago, Rare Breed’s ‘Out of The Question’ is a pop punk banger that’s now getting a much deserved second round of promotion as part of Reaction Management’s brace of summer singles.
Listen: Brackish unveil new track ‘Lay Down’
Following their self titled long player from 2022, Philadephia’s Brackish have returned, and on their current track, they sound like a band that means business.
TWENTYTWENTYSIX – Fake It Till You Make It
As the author of the Marillion biography ‘Separated Out’ and the Rush history ‘Strange Chemistry’, writer Jon Collins has been well known to prog rock fans for decades. Those fans are less likely to know Jon for his poetry, or be aware of his work as a musician, but he has been rather wise in choosing to apply his writing talents to different media. After all, if you stick to the same thing, you’ll eventually end up stuck in an uninteresting rut.
Check out ‘Please Me’ – the new single and video from The Rattlebacks
Just a few weeks after the release of the enjoyable ‘Over The Edge’, The Rattlebacks have returned with another new single ‘Please Me’.