Jack Ridsdale, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

ALBUM REVIEW: Happiness – Beauty School

With Leeds being known for its festival culture, it comes as no surprise to see one of the north’s most

Bursting onto the scene in 2018, Manchester power-pop group PALE WAVES immediately won over fans with their sparkly yet driving

A self-titled album often indicates a reinvention or change of direction but for RAIN CITY DRIVE, it represents the completion

As we enter into a well-earned four-day weekend, Bristol’s alternative music fans file into the delightfully divey Marble Factory for

French melodic hardcore outfit THE AMSTERDAM RED LIGHT DISTRICT, a.k.a. TARLD are back with their second full-length album Trapped, which

A stone’s throw from Bristol Temple Meads lies The Marble Factory, a warehouse-turned-rock venue that tonight is filling up with

The early-evening sun is bathing The Flapper pub’s beer garden in a golden glow as fans begin to file into

If the reception to When We Were Young Fest is anything to go by, the Elder Emo demographic is certainly

Over the span of their more than 20-year career, UNDEROATH have refused to do what is expected of them. Starting

For more than a decade, US-based outfit LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES have been producing savage metalcore. Through the genre’s boom