Louder Than War
online music magazine
Louder Than War is a music and culture website and magazine focusing on mainly alternative arts news, reviews and features. The site is an editorially independent publication that was started by the English musician and journalist John Robb in 2010 and is now co-owned by Robb and Nigel Carr and supported by a team of journalists with a worldwide team of freelancers. There was a print edition from 2015 until 2020.
The site is built around live reviews, album reviews and interviews. In 2012, Louder Than War launched a record label to promote and champion lesser known bands and artists.
History
In its first year, in November 2011, Robb was voted to win the UK Association of Independent Music "Indie Champion" award.
Louder Than War created the record label Louder Than War Records in 2014, to act as a platform for bands and artists to reach a wider audience. The first release was Evil Blizzard's The Dangers Remixes, a 300-copy CD-only release without a catalogue number, each being hand numbered; the eight-track release was a remix of the at that point still-to-be-released Evil Blizzard debut, The Dangers of Evil Blizzard (LOUD001).
The label has since released material by King Champion Sounds, Faerground Accidents, The Nightingales, Super Besses, Get Your Gun, and The Membranes.
In August 2015, Louder Than War announced they were also creating a print magazine.
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