<p><span><span><span>- Nearly a year after their breakthrough debut, the Cambridgeshire originating Black Country, New Road return with </span><em>Ants From Up There. </em><span>Seamlessly blending contemporary classical, math rock and even ska, Black Country might look and sound more like a </span><strong>Wes Anderson</strong><span> cast than the hottest rock band on the other side of the equator, but you best believe that LP2 more than attests to the hype and acclaim of their debut.

<p><span><span>- Australian heavy music is a strange beast, it seems to go through popular phases every twenty years or so. Since grabbing the world by the balls in the 1970s via <strong>AC/DC</strong> and the diverse highs of the 1990s with grunge and metal both being extremely popular genres, it has been bubbling away in the background and now raises its fiery head through The Neptune Power Federation, on their fourth album, <em>Le Demon de L’Amour</em>.</span></span></p>

- Half a century ago, Abiodun Oyewole and his group The Last Poets invented gangsta rap. Their rapid-fire street corner poetry sounded like the patter of machine guns, and so did their lyrics. Abiodun’s most famous poem When The Revolution Comes called for blood to run down the streets of Harlem, and for guns and rifles to take the place of poems and essays.