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Team Member: Chandni Sembhi

I'm Chandni, I review albums and gigs, and in my spare time design t-shirts on Redbubble, and play guitar. My life goal is to be a music journalist, so I guess I'm living the dream. My music taste varies from indie to metal to pop-punk.

Chandni Sembhi's Articles:

Still Remains to play UK after almost a decade

Still Remains will be touring the UK this October, four years after their last release, ‘Ceasing to Breathe’, and for the first time in almost 10 years. The band will be playing 9 headline shows with Wars and Carcer City as supports. Frontman TJ Miller said, “We have always seen the UK as our home […]

Soft Fangs release new single, ‘Elephant Girl’

With the upcoming release of album, ‘Fractures‘, on September 1st, Soft Fangs have released ‘Elephant Girl’. Elephant Girl is a hazy alt-folk track with raspy vocals, a dreamy guitar, and a melody which just makes you feel relaxed, and somehow nostalgic about last summer. It’s great, and definitely will get you excited about the album release. Following […]

Acacia Strain – Gravebloom

Deathcore band ‘Acacia Strain’ have released their 8th album, Gravebloom, and the 11 track mammoth of an album is full of heavy breakdowns, growls, and drone sounds. Faster songs like ‘Calloused Mouth’ and ‘Bitter Pill’ do well to add variety to the generally almost sludgy sound with rumbling bass lines and filthy riffs under rasping […]

Let’s Get Drunk say SVETLANAS

Following the release of their LP, ‘THIS IS MOSCOW NOT LA‘, thrash-core band SVETLANAS have released a video for ‘Let’s Get Drunk‘. https://vimeo.com/224821973 If Gene Simmons and The Adolescents can get behind this band, so can we with their intense live shows, energy, and insanely catchy tunes. Catch the band here! Jul 13 LOLA Groningen, Netherlands […]

Chambers announce new single

Chambers have announced that they will be releasing ‘Down The Rabbit Hole‘ on August 4th, and have announced UK and EU tour dates! The single is about people getting into situations they shouldn’t – going down a rabbit hole, and will be released before the duo go to record an EP later this year. On […]

Devil Electric announce debut album!

Devil Electric are releasing their debut self-titled album on August 11th through German label Kozmik Artifactz. To promote their album release and new signing, they’ve released a video for their latest single, ‘Hypnotica’, a thundering, slightly blues-y, heavy rock jam with chilling vocals. Their album follows an EP, ‘The Gods Below‘, which was extremely well […]

Make Them Suffer announce UK headline tour and new single

Australia’s ‘Make Them Suffer‘ will be touring the UK this October, following the release of the new single, ‘Uncharted‘. ‘Uncharted‘ is taken from their album, ‘Worlds Apart‘, which is released on July 28th. The band said they’ve taken risks and new approaches to writing and production, which is plain to see when listening to ‘Uncharted‘. […]

Showoff front man and wife launch new indie label Dodgeball Records

Chris Messer, pop-punk band ‘Showoff’s frontman, is starting a new indie record label, Dodgeball Records, with wife Dani, and Mike Felumlee of Smoking Popes. Born in Chicago from a passion for music, the trio aim to run the label like a family business, and to recruit bands and artists to join their team who match […]

THE XCERTS announce UK headline tour

Following their incredibly well-received single, ‘Feels Like Falling in Love’, THE XCERTS have announced that they will be touring the UK in September and October this year. THE XCERTS have had an exciting few weeks with the anthemic ‘Feels Like Falling in Love‘ premiering on the Radio 1 Rock Show as the ‘Rockest record’ and […]

Crumbs reveal new single and video!

Ahead of the release of their debut album, ‘Mind Yr Manners‘, Crumbs have released ‘Weasels Can Wait‘. The album comes out July 28th, and will hopefully see more songs like ‘Weasels Can Wait‘, where the band exhibit post-punk riffs with poppier sounds to create an insanely catchy song. The band said the track “is a […]

Deadly Inscription announce new single and tour!

Scottish metal band, Deadly Inscription, are releasing their new single, ‘Cemetery Wind‘, and preparing to tour the UK! This is the first we’ve heard from the band since their EP ‘A Testament to Sin‘ last year. ‘Cemetery Wind‘ will be released on the 28th July, coinciding with their tour. Catch the band here: 21st July […]

The Strypes – Spitting Image

The Strypes are back with ‘Spitting Image‘, and it’s a cracker full of rock riffs, infectious rhythms, catchy vocals; and if anyone can bring back the harmonica (did it even really leave?), it’s these guys. The album opens with ‘Behind Closed Doors‘, and you can immediately tell how the band have progressed over the two […]

The Strypes Live at Dingwalls, Camden

On 13th June 2017, the best-dressed boys in music, The Strypes, headed to Camden’s Dingwalls for what turned out to be probably one of the best gigs that venue has seen. Before The Strypes, the crowd were warmed up first by Sasha Adamczewski who killed it with his raspy vocals and blues-y, rock n’ roll grooves atop […]

Wren – Auburn Rule

Following their success with EP ‘Host‘ last year, Wren are releasing new album, ‘Auburn Rule.’ With praise from the likes of Daniel P. Carter, many eagerly awaited the few release from the noise rock/ post-metal four-piece from London. Speaking about the new album the band said “The album is based around the same premise as the […]

Music and mental health – Alzheimer’s

People using music as a form of therapy isn’t unheard of. It has bought plenty of people back from their darkest times with illnesses such as depression and dementia. Although it technically isn’t a medication, there is not a doubt that it is powerful enough to positively change someone’s life. “I have seen deeply demented […]

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