Atoosa Salamat

There's something uniquely electric about grassroots live music venues, the kind of intimate bars where you can feel the sweat drip from the ceiling and the bass reverberate through your chest. This is where the future of music is forged, where bands are not separated from their audience by barriers and distance from the stage, but rather share the same cramped space, the same charged atmosphere. PROFILER , INRETROSPECT  and BLACK COAST ’s performances on Wednesday night at The Black Heart...

Islington Assembly Hall was on fire, and for a very good reason. THE   RAVEN AGE  prepared to close off their Monarchy Tour, celebrating the band’s tenth year anniversary. Excitement filled the air as fans filled the pit and balcony, with a sense of sadness and melancholy lingering underneath it all. This show was guitarist GEORGE HARRIS ’ last show as a member of THE RAVEN AGE , having founded the band with former guitarist DAN WRIGHT , who had left the band in 2017. A show as monumental as...