So with the first 6 months of 2018 over and the days already starting to get shorter (how is this possible!!), I thought it the right time to pull together a highlight playlist of my favourite jams of the year to date. With a re-ignition of activity here at DiR.net, its about time to do some more sharing, how modern of this aging dinosaur! We’ll see how many of these stick around until the traditional end of year retrospective.
DiR.net: Best of 2018 So Far…
As usual a huge mixed blend of guitar genres on offer covering
- Sharp indie-rock (The Spielbergs)
- Unhinged rock and roll (The Hawkins*)
- 70’s Pop throwbacks with the best band name of recent times (Death By Unga Bunga)
- Dutch manic Pop-Punk/Rock (Tusky)
- Huge Southern Rockers (Black Stone Cherry)
- Youthful diversity (YUNGBLUD, Dead!)
- Scandinavian Melodic Hard Rock/Metal/Pop (Audrey Horne, Mustasch, Spiders, Heavy Tiger*,The Night Flight Orchestra*)
- British Blues (Kris Barras Band)
- Progressive Metal (Caligula’s Horse*)
- Thumping Stoner Rock (Corrosion of Conformity, Black Rainbows)
- Fresh and Modern UK Hard Rock (Fragile Things, Turbowolf, Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons, Fire Red Empress*)
- Hardcore & Post Punk (Turnstile, The Fever 333)
- Essex Folk anti-hero (Beans On Toast)
- …plus a few more to boot
* Whilst most of these are from 2018 releases I have snuck in a few that slipped my best of 2017 end of year net.
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