Site Updates

New page additions and updates

*Regular Updates: Album Guide, Nu-Metal Guide Feedback, Reader's Best Albums Lists, Album News and Music Links*

01-Dec-07 : Updated the site - new song reviews, albums of 2007, re-rewriting the promo page & essential album guide introduction and streaming lining the index page layout

23-Nov-07 : Back! After the site being off-line for along time, it's been put back on-line by the host after they changed servers.

22-Jan-06 : Added interview with WXB 102 - Radio Station

09-Dec-06 : Added interview with Cynthia Basinet

06-Nov-06 : Added new selection of reviews on the Guest Reviewer page

28-May-06 : Added interviews with Stereopool * Steven Ross Jahn * Whiskysam

20-Apr-06 : Added review of Riotmind - 'Look Out Westy!'

25-Mar-06 : Added interviews with Rob Marin * Smaktones * Josephine Sincere

12-Mar-06 : Added interview with Gun & Doll Show

26-Feb-06 : Added interviews with Burgess Shale * Black Lab *Added Ten Commandments of Post-Grunge

21-Jan-06 : Added interview with Nalika

12-Jan-06 : Added interviews with Karli Bonne * Tim Bertulli * EJ Sebian

27-Dec-05 : Added interviews with Prettier Than Pink * Chapter XIII

18-Dec-05 : Added interviews with Lorraine Devon Wilke * Tenth Planet * Lifeline

13-Dec-05 : Added interview with Edward Heppenstall

11-Dec-05 : Added Music Releases publicity page & BBC Entertainment News Banner

24-Nov-05 : Added Interviews with The Green Children * TrueHeart * Chil Will | Added Promo Pages Soundhouse Rock Event * Fuse TV Feature

13-Nov-05 : Added Pink Punk - 'Zoo Politics' * Interviews with Charlotte Summer and Moonlife * Raquel Aurilia

07-Nov-05 : Added Jethro Tull - 'Aqualung Live'

05-Nov-05 : Added an interview with Rachael Petit

30-Oct-05 : Added Crashed Out - 'Pearls Before Swine'

23-Oct-05 : Added Silver Sun - 'Immediate' * Various Artists - 'WarfRat Tales - Unabridged' * The Conway Story - 'Photogenic' * The Cutters - 'Jesus' * Caplyn - 'Underdogs' * The Eighteenth Day Of May - 'The Eighteenth Day Of May' * Stick Finlays - 'Progress On Paper'

16-Oct-05 : Added The Fondas - 'Be Alone' * The Morenas - 'Dance For Your Dictator E.P.' * Stillman - 'The Weightless E.P.' * Moonshot - 'Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow'

11-Oct-05 : Added Chapter XIII - 'The Last Time' * Hey Negrita - 'Old Britannia' * Riotmind - 'Riotmind' * Murkin - 'The Halloween Party EP' * Stoner - 'Life And Times'

9-Oct-05 : Added Rules for Horror Themed Metal

6-Oct-05 : Added Liner - 'Mirror' * Ultrasonic - 'Annihalating Rhythms' * Fire Rocket Launcher - 'Stuff Yer Turkey' * Nadie - 'Indifference'

4-Oct-05 : Added Stereotactic - 'The Dawning' & Brian Eno - 'How Many Worlds'

28-Sep-05 : Added Marconi Union - 'Distance' | Circus Normal - 'Circus Normal' | Nadie - 'Like I Used To'

25-Sep-05 : Added Beach - 'Missing The Action' (2005) | Viarosa - 'Where The Killers Run' (2005)

20-Sep-05 : Added Jynxt - 'Electric Knives' (2005) | Mostly Autumn - 'Storms Over Still Water' (2005) | Red.Star.Line - 'Red.Star.Line' (2005)

17-Sep-05 : Added Presley - 'Elizabeth EP' (2005) | Marsha Swanson - 'Losing Me' (2005) | Kald - '(Can You Feel The) Magic' (2005)

01-Sep-05 : Added Kaedee - 'Kaedee' (2005)

13-Aug-05 : Added Seminole County - 'Seminole County' (2005)

05-Aug-05 : Added Rules for Garage Rock

23-Jul-05 : Added Undercut - 'Something To Die For' (2005)

06-Jul-05 : Added Rules for Power Metal

08-Jun-05 : Added 'Heartache & Pain: An Introduction to the Alternative Country of Jamtland' (2005) & Iodo - 'This Is Now' (2005)

04-Jun-05 : Added Quartershade - 'Machines To Live In' (2005) & Hey Negrita - 'Devil In My Shoes' (2005)

25-May-05 : Added Undercut - 'To Die For' (2005) | Kate Aumonier - 'Much Like Yesterday' (2005) | Beach - 'Burning Up' (2005) | British Beef - 'Without Me' (2005) & The Conway Story - 'Ghostwriter' (2005)

30-Apr-05 : Added 100 GREATEST ALBUMS - Channel 4 Poll

30-Apr-05 : Added Cas Lucas - 'Giving It Back' & Sunny So Brite - 'The New American Century' guest reviews

24-Apr-05 : Added Nine Inch Nails - 'With Teeth' Promo mp3 link

19-Apr-05 : Added Milburn - 'Milburn' (2005) and Barry Russo - 'These Are The Days' guest review

17-Apr-05 : Added The Famous - 'Light, Sweet Crude' & Guy Michetti - 'All In My Mind' guest reviews | The Pixies - Media Reviews media reviews achive

07-Apr-05 : Added Captain Wilberforce - 'Mindfilming' (2005) & 'Headbanger's Bible' plus Highroad No. 28 band profile

05-Apr-05 : Added Niall James Holohan - 'A Beautiful Corpse' (2004) & Melborne Moon - 'Repairing Fence' (2004) reviews (Hey, I'm on a roll with this review malaky)

03-Apr-05 : Added The Morenas - 'It Shouldn't Mata' (2005) | Mama Scuba - 'El Shake' (2005) & Demon Summer - 'Burn' (2005)

31-Mar-05 : Added The Sour Mournings - 'Whirlpool' (2005)

06-Mar-05 : Added White Lies - 'White Lies Mini Album' (2005) & Exit52 - 'Dandelion E.P.' (2005)

27 Feb-05 : Added Mcpherson - 'Toys / Jones' & United - 'Slick'

20 Feb-05 : Updated Upcoming Albums - 2005 Schedule

13 Feb-05 : Added Yankee Nine Niner - 'Two Track Sampler' (2005)

07 Feb-05 : Added The Red - 'Burn' (2004) & Redlightmusic - 'Redlightmusic' (2004)

02 Feb-05 : Added Kimberly Trip - 'Catastrophic Behavior' & No-Fly Zone - 'Two-Tracker' (2004)

10 Jan-05 : Added Lunaractive - 'Synthesis' (2004) & Dewy Albino - 'Dewy Albino EP' (2004)

30 Dec-04 : Added Pain Tolerance - 'A Momentary Act Of Disclosure' | The Get-Outs - 'Get The Message' (2004) | Twinkie - 'Twinkie' (2004) & Andrew - 'What's It All About?' (2004)

28 Dec-04 : Updated Complete Album List by including albums of the 1990s & 2000s

12 Dec-04 : Carried out a major overhaul of the website, deleting all the old webpages and shifting artist page reviews into the Album Guide.

08 Dec-04 : Added Albums of 2004

04 Dec-04 : Added Rules for Gothic

29 Nov-04 : More RE-WRITES for the Album Guide

09 Nov-04 : Added The Color Guard - 'Dark Pop' (2004) & Headrush - 'Just Bring It On' E.P. (2004)

01-Nov-04 : Added Flood The Sky - 'Flood The Sky' (2004)

28-Oct-04 : Added EX~PO - 'Harsh Lenses Point Homeward' E.P. (2004) | The Peter Parkers - 'This Is Sity Music' (2004) | Head Rush - 'Back Again Rock N Roll' E.P. (2004)

* ONGOING PROJECT: Updating the Album Guide with re-writes of old reviews & adding new reviews | Expanding the lists on new page Complete Album List, to give an overview of the entire guide.

5 Oct-04: Had a recap on the site's traffic statistics to date. My web counter has calculated nearly a quarter of a million visitors so far. As for Page Views, that's not the full picture as I only put the counter on a couple of pages, so I have no idea on the actual page views.....

TOTAL 2001-04
Visits:	245,766
Page Views:	435,154

29-Sep-04 : After not much activity, big updates: Albums of the Sixties | Albums of the Seventies | Albums of the Eighties | Hall Of Fame | Rock Polls | Free MP3 Downloads | Parody MP3 Songs and new poll set called Who Is Britain's Finest Modern Band?

19-Aug-04 : Added Paatos - 'Kallocain' (2004) promo review

13-Jul-04 : I'm back after a month's break, and have added all the back-logged emails sent to the site.

09-Jun-04 : Added Sputnik Monroe - 'Shamu Suicide' (2004) promo review

06-Jun-04 : Updated London Rock Club promotion page for new nights out.

16-May-04 : Launched version 2.0 of Essential Album Guide and re-designed the Forthcoming Albums

15-May-04 : Added The Kokoon - 'Independent' (2004) promo review

02-May-04 : Added Mick Karn - 'More Better Different' (2004) & Fingercuffs - 'Blank' (2004) & Eustacia Vye - 'Eustacia Vye EP' (2004) promo reviews and Metallica - "Re/Load" Special"

30-Apr-04 : Added Johnny 5 - "Johnny 5 EP" (2004) promo review

13-Apr-04 : Added 7Law - Need This in Your Life? publicity article, Counting Crows - 'Films About Ghosts - The Best Of' album review and a Guns N'Rose Special where I attempt something the band should have done 13 years ago. Biggest update in quite a while.

24-Mar-04 : Updated Interactive Rock Polls with latest stats and reader comments.

21-Mar-04 : Added promo reviews of Delusion - 'The Tragedy Of Regret' (2003) & The Ease - 'Awkward Moments' (2004)

10-Mar-04 : Created a new Music Guide on Amazon.com called So you'd like to... discover the best early 90's rock records

09-Mar-04 : In a burst of action I set up new artist page for resident artist Pulse120 at the link Soundclick.com/pulse120

08-Mar-04 : Added promo reviews of Clear - 'Coming Round' (2004) and The Kates - 'Suicide Valentine' EP (2004) & Misnomer - '2000-2003'

02-Mar-04 : Added promo review of Action Now - 'All Your Dreams…and more 1981-1984'

29-Feb-04 : Added promo reviews of Romislokus - 'Trans Aviation Pilots' (2004) and Wheat - 'Per Second, Per Second, Per Second… Every Second' (2003)

08-Feb-04 : Added promo reviews of Battery Life - 'Shotgun Loudmouth' (2004), -- The Mighty Stars - 'The Mighty Stars Are Go!' (2003), -- Forest Giants - 'In Sequence' (2004) & Captain Wilberforce - 'Dreams Of Educated Fleas' (2004)

01-Feb-04 : Added reader e-mails and new announcement for Promo Review page: "ANNOUNCEMENT: The site went on a short-term hiatus over past few months resulting in a back-log of albums waiting for review. The site is now active again, with many albums in my possession I am currently listening to. Apologies to the kick-ass bands waiting for their reviews."

01-Jan-04 : Updated Nu-Metal Guide Links

30-Dec-03 : It's been exactly one month since the last site update - I have updated the December mp3 Listening Booth, Reader Album Lists and Nu-Metal Guide comments dating back one month. In the forthcoming month, I shall be reviewing a few more Promo CDs so in the meantime, have a Happy New Year!

30-Nov-03 : Added Best Albums of 2003 (preview)

24-Nov-03 : Added November mp3 Listening Booth

23-Nov-03 : Moved Site Referrers to it's own page

23-Nov-03 : Added Latitude Blue - 'Searching For Perfect' (2003) and Revelation Theory - '6 Song EP' (2003) album reviews

21-Nov-03 : Added Rock Media Video Clips

20-Nov-03 : Added Comeg - 'Perfect Summer' (2003) album review

16-Nov-03 : Added Genre Guide Page

03-Nov-03 : Added Imaginary Bill - 'Breaking The Ground Loop' (2003) and Diction - 'The First 5 Years' (2003) album reviews

26-Oct-03 : Added Opinion Poll - 'Most irritating rock bands'

26-Oct-03 : Updated Various Album Reviews page

24-Oct-03 : Added ElScientisto - 'Moonsick' (2003) album review

23-Oct-03 : Added Solanoid - 'Aurora Avenue' (2003) album review

22-Oct-03 : Added 7Law - '7Law: EP' (2003) album review

20 Oct-03 : Updated mp3 track recommendations page - October Selection

06-Oct-03 : Updated About Site page

03-Oct-03 : Added CoolNoise.co.uk link and updated Nu-Metal Guide

21-Sep-03 : Added artist spotlight on 7Law

20 Sep-03 : Updated mp3 track recommendations page - September Selection

14-Sep-03 : Added Presley - 'Presley' and Alien Breed - 'Antidote' album reviews.

06-Sep-03 : Added Skid Row - 'Under The Skin' DVD review and new menu page Rock Promotions

04-Sep-03 : Updated Album News and mp3 track recommendations page

13 Aug-03 : Added Solvi - 'Solvi' and Superfine - 'Unsound' album reviews. Changed Album News page into new format.

09 Aug-03 : Added Breakpoint - 'None To Sell' and Mary And The Saints - 'Come Hard Times' album reviews

07 Aug-03 : Added mp3 track recommendations page

27-Jul-03 : Added Linkin Park - "Hybrid Theory", Live - "Secret Samedhi" and Pantera - "Vulgar Display Of Power" album reviews.

22-Jul-03 : Added Deftones - 'Deftones' and Metallica - 'St Anger' , Korn - "Korn", Live - "Throwing Copper", White Zombie - "Astro Creep 2000" albums reviews

10-Jul-03 : Added 'Garage Days' movie feature

10-Jul-03 : Added Heroes Of The Alamo - '98 to 1' and Daniel Patrick Quinn - 'The Winter Hills' promo reviews

10-Jul-03 : Added Skid Row - 'Under The Skin' DVD backstory

06-Jul-03 : Added Janes Addiction page containing Biography

06-Jul-03 : Added Janes Addiction - 'Strays' and Sevendust - 'Seasons' album news

07-Jun-03 : Added Metallica - St. Anger review links

11-May-03 : Added London Rock Club promotion page

02-May-03 : Rock News: Aaahh, good news to all rock fans, "Rock overtakes pop as music moneyspinner" - A renaissance in rock has seen it overtake pop for the first time to become the biggest genre in terms of album sales in the UK

29-Apr-03 : Added new promo reviews for bands The Smartest Monkeys and Fingercuffs

19-Apr-03 : New e-mail address crawlaway@lycos.co.uk -- the usual site address altrockreview@hotmail.com is currently receiving large junk files, thus blocking all incoming mails. So it's a decision I really had to make.

06-Apr-03 : Added Radiohead - 'Hail To The Thief' album review

05-Apr-03 : Today, the site received its 200,000th visitor since January 2002. Thanks to all who have visited!

05-Apr-03 : Added a new 101 Rules of Nu-Metal

05-Apr-03 : Added Nirvana - 'Nevermind' review by Gerben den Heijer.

01-Apr-03 : Added Pearl Jam - 'Ten' review, submitted by Gerben den Heijer.

01-Apr-03 : Updated Blur - 'Think Tank' and The Offspring - 'Chinese Democracy' album news

30-Mar-03 : Updated Polls to include Nu-Metal Poll.

29-Mar-03 : Added "Web Reviewing Community" banner to index page

25-Mar-03 : Updated the Music Links page including loads more links

13-Mar-03 : Added Romislokus - 'All Day Home' and Celophane Flower - 'Too Good To Be Famous' album reviews

12-Mar-03 : Added "Nu-Metal Meltdown" article from MTV Asia

11-Mar-03 : Added Stereophonics - 'You Gotta Go There To Come Back' and Deftones - 'Deftones' album news

09-Mar-03 : Added Guest Reviewers page, Patrick Gill being first reviewer

03-Mar-03 : Added Placebo - 'Sleeping With Ghosts' and White Stripes - 'Elephant' album reviews

28-Feb-03 : Added Rockbitch artist page

25-Feb-03 : Updated Albums of 2002

12-Feb-03 : Added mp3.com Rant to Oak Records

10-Feb-03 : Updated Machine Head - 'Hellalive' albums news

08-Feb-03 : Added Zwan - 'Mary Star Of The Sea', Ministry - 'Animositisomina' and Hell For Heroes - Neon Handshake' album reviews

15-Dec-02 : Added Green Day, AC/DC and Dillinger Escape Plan album news

10-Dec-02 : Updated Essential Album Guide, to include 'Best Of The Rest' lists for each year in 1990's.

27-Oct-02 : New Page British Band List added

23-Oct-02 : Upload my MP3 Playlist and Music Collection on-line

01-Oct-02 : With the closure of www.oakrecords.inuk.com, I moved the Pulse120 website onto this site's inuk.com domain. I re-designed the whole site and launched it again.

05-Sep-02 : Created a new Webmaster's Link Page

29-Jul-02 : Split the "Nu-Metal Guide" into 2 pages as it's too big for 1.

08-Jun-02 : Moved Weezer reviews to it's own page

20-May-02 : Updated the Albums of 2001

19-May-02 : Added Marilyn Manson and Radiohead review pages.

17-May-02 : Re-designed the Music Links page.