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“James Has Even Yanked On The Steering Wheel While Asleep In The Front With Me Driving” | Alt Corner Chat With Trash Boat

With Their Upcoming Tour With Wonder Years Fast Approaching, Here At Alt Corner, We Took Some Time Out With Trash Boat To See What The St. Albans Outfit Have To Come Next...

Monster Download festival lineup announcement!

Download festival has announced a mammoth 48 bands to it’s already incredible lineup! Festival organiser Andy Copping says; “We’re committed to delivering the best in rock and metal year on year for the Download fans, and this year is no exception. We’re thrilled to have core acts in the likes of Steel Panther, A Day […]

Galactic Empire – Galactic Empire

When most people think of Star Wars they think of sci-fi loving nerds, some light sabers or that video of a woman enjoying her Chewbacca mask a little too much. Turns out what we all should have been thinking all along was rock music. Galactic Empire are here with their self titled debut album to […]

2017’s Ones To Watch

Here at Alt Corner we love discovering new bands and artists. A month into 2017 and there are already some great bands making waves in the music world and setting themselves up to have a great year. Here are just a few of the bands we think you should be keeping an eye on this […]

Less Than Jake – Sound the Alarm

For a band to stay fresh and entertaining for 25 long years, you must have something special. After 8 full length albums, 8 EP’s, and numerous other releases, Less Than Jake continue to raise the bar and keep your taste buds filled with exciting new flavours. Sound The Alarm is the 9th EP from the […]

Greywind chat about their music, plans for the future, and live shows

Greywind’s debut album, Afterthoughts, is out this Friday, and the duo of siblings have been working on it for a few years. With the album already receiving so much buzz, and their debut headline show already sold out, they’re a pretty exciting band right now. We caught up with Paul O’Sullivan to chat about the release […]

Motionless in White are Eternally Yours

Well if you insist Motionless in White! We won’t be complaining at all! The band have released their new single Eternally Yours (like seriously, if they want to be eternally ours, they don’t need to ask. Just turn up to our house, we won’t mind at all! Although obviously it will cost you your souls, […]

Handmade Festival announces new acts!

Handmade Festival is set to return to Leeds’ O2 Academy on April 29 and 30th for two days of music, comedy, art, film, perofrmance and photography. The festival has announced the second lot of artists set to take to the stage across the two dates; Cabbage, Superfood, Demob Happy, God Damn, Kagoule, Gallops, Ash Mammal, […]

Top 10 Alternative Covers

If you’re an up-and-coming band sometimes the best way for you to get your name out there and reel in a bigger fan base is to do brilliant covers of some pretty cool tracks. There have also been countless ‘punk goes pop’ records including seasonal specials and outlets even have the idea of taking landmark […]

At Dawn’s Edge have an Evil Flamingo!

Canadian progressive metallers At Dawn’s Edge have released the video for new single Evil Flamingo. Now I don’t know about you but an evil flamingo isn’t exactly what I want to come across in the wild. Drawing influence from Nightwish and Epica, the quartet were originally founded in 2009 but the current line-up was solidified […]

Calling Apollo are in The Wars

Welsh melodic rockers Calling Apollo have revealed their latest single! The Wars is the third track to be lifted from 2016’s EP The Great Depression: Act 1. The single has already received airplay on Kerrang Radio’s Fresh Blood Show and you can now watch the video below; Guitarist Dan Hughes says of the track; We […]

Where Fires Are reveal new single & UK tour

Alt rockers Where Fires Are have released their new single ‘I’ve Got The Time’ alongside a host of UK tour dates. The Leeds based bands latest single has been described as a stadium sized rock anthem, with harmonic vocals backing up lead singer Robbie’s striking tones. The single is just a preview of what can […]

The Lion and The Wolf wants to Walk On The Moon

The Lion and the Wolf has released the video for Walk on the Moon. The release comes as he is set to hit the road with Kevin Devine this weekend! Thomas George, the man behind the project, says of the video, which was filmed in one shot; “This video was filmed in the front room […]

As It Is – “Okay”

Since the release of their highly-praised 2015 debut album Never Happy, Ever After, Brighton, UK’s As It Is have garnered an ever-growing, devout fan following with their sincere and relatable lyrics, charged with energised pop-rock melodies. With the release of their sophomore album Okay., the members of the transatlantic quintet – Patty Walters (vocals), Benjamin […]

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