Anchors Up is a bit of a local supergroup featuring members of Fire Through The Window and Wrestlerish – but get this: they’re a country band. Anchors Up co-founder, Marc De La Querra, explains it all.

What’s better than local music? Local music kicking ass overseas, of course. The Spindle Sect’s bass monster and production maestro, The SciFientist, chats to MusicReview.

Currently out on the This World Is Ours Tour with Attack Attack!, The Word Alive, Secrets and Mest, Escape the Fate vocalist, Craig Mabbitt, was kind enough to reveal his touring highlights, lowlights, preferences and rituals to us. Check it out below. Weirdest requests on tour? Craig Mabbitt: Requests? People have asked for some gnarly [...]

Australian rock sextet Hands Like Houses confirmed that all their initial hype had substance with their Billboard charting debut album, Ground Dweller. Armed with an album of the year contender, HLH will now turn their attention to solidifying their name in the notoriously difficult US market. Guitarist Matt Cooper tells us more about Ground Dweller, [...]

Feeling ghoulish, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to interview German horror punk fiends, The Crimson Ghosts. Guitarist Jackal and bass player Monstro left the comfort of their crypt, promised not to eat our brains, and answered our questions below. Last year, Jackal joined Blitzkid for a few dates as a session guitarist. How sad [...]

If you weren’t at RAMfest, you missed out on the event of the year – and deserve a lifetime of FOMO. To rub it in, MK Ondergrond, the local champion of the underground, got a chance to interview In Flames bassist Peter Iwers (and animate him). Watch the interview below:

New metal kids on the block, Forfeit Thee Untrue, are making a statement: FTU are a Christian metal band, so deal with it. Drummer, Craig Palmer, tells us more about his band below. Forfeit Thee Untrue have managed to build up a nice reputation within the Christian community, although you guys haven’t released your debut [...]

Think it’s easy being a musician, and that the media will fall over themselves to interview and feature your band? Think again, sunshine. Having a great PR team behind you is perhaps the most crucial element that will ensure that your band gets on the map and recognised. So, who better to explain the delicate [...]

Proving that you don’t need to look overseas to find quality bands and music, Durban’s Fire through the Window have been steadily building up a reputation as one of South Africa’s finest young bands. Facing the music, Marc De La Querra (FTTW’s guitarist/vocalist) drops by for an interview with yours truly. Since All These People [...]

Last year, local TV got better. Why? Because the underground community found its saviour. A bastion of all things related to real music. A hero named MK Ondergrond. If you’ve been living under a rock (or solely watching the national broadcaster’s channels), MK Ondergrond is a TV programme that provides a platform for local and [...]