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REVIEW: SOLAR EYES – LIVE FREAKY! DIE FREAKY! (2025)
REVIEW : WAYWARD VINE – THE FALL (2025)
BAND OF THE DAY: CADET A
GYPSY PISTOLEROS SECOND COMING
DAYSEEKER NEW SINGLE
REVIEW: HUMBLE – PIE JOINT EFFORT – (2019)
Reviews
April 17, 2019
I started buying albums around 1974 but it wasn’t until I left school in 1977 that my habit really took hold. Whilst I started...
CLUTCH @ MELKWEG, AMSTERDAM – 27TH NOVEMBER 2018
Gigs
November 29, 2018
Clutch are the best Band in the world right now. There I’ve said it – yes I know it’s only my opinion but it...
REVIEW: IDLEWAR – FRACTURED (2018)
Reviews
October 2, 2018
All of us writing on Maximum Volume have a Band that we love and champion at every opportunity but who remain a bit of...
IDLEWAR MAKE THEIR ESCAPE
News
July 23, 2018
There is something special going on here with Orange County CA heavy hard blues rock trio IDLEWAR. The band consists of James Blake (vocals &...
REVIEW: HELL’S GAZELLES – TAKE YOUR MEDICINE (2018)
Reviews
June 20, 2018
The record industry of this millennium is an entirely different being to the one I grew up with. As a result my inbox regularly...
REVIEW: SHOTGUN REBELLION – OUTLAW ROCK N ROLL (2018)
Reviews
June 3, 2018
Shotgun Rebellion are yet another group that appeared a while back in my Social Media feeds and what a find. The Band, hailing from...
REVIEW: MISSISSIPPI BONES ALBUM – RADIO FREE CONSPIRACY THEORY (2018)
Reviews
May 25, 2018
There are a number of Bands that I’ve discovered via Social media whom I cannot fathom how they are not household names. Mississippi Bones...
REVIEW: AYREON – UNIVERSE DVD
Reviews
March 27, 2018
Do any MVM readers remember ‘Time Gentleman Please’? This was the Sitcom on Sky that launched Al Murray’s Pub Landlord to the larger UK...
REVIEW: WASTED THEORY – DEFENDERS OF THE RIFF (2018)
Reviews
March 6, 2018
Bernard gets wasted and to grips with the riff..... It becomes apparent during the opening track of ‘Defenders Of The Riff’ that this is very...
Dirty Threesome
News
December 13, 2017
Last year, our Bernard reviewed a record by a band from his home town. We'll now they're back Andover band The Dirty Dead have released...
MARK “PORKCHOP” HOLDER – DEATH AND THE BLUES (2017)
Reviews
November 22, 2017
Bernard gets to grips with some tasty porkchops Guitarist, harmonica player and songwriter Mark ‘Porkchop’ Holder is a founding member of Tennessee punk-rock/blues band The...
IDLEWAR @THE IRON ROAD, EVESHAM, 5TH NOVEMBER 2017
Gigs
November 6, 2017
Bernard spends the night with his faves It’s no secret that I think Idlewar are one of the best Bands around. So on a cold...
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