News: The K’s announce release their debut album “I Wonder If The World Knows?”
Pic Credit: Andi Callen Photography – All Rights Reserved. This is a Good News/Bad News announcement! Good news – just as they are about to head out on their tour supporting The Reytons, Warrington’s very own The K’s, have today announced the impending release of their long awaited debut LP, I Wonder If The World …
News: Rocket Pengwin releases debut album “Polar Opposites”
Rocket Pengwin isn’t a band, rather the creation of New York’s Multi-hyphenate singer, songwriter, and visual artist Eddie Sears. Today sees the release of his debut album “Polar Opposites”, a clever wordplay comparing and contrasting New York with Antarctica. Let Eddie describe it in his own words…As the story goes, the Penguin is from Antarctica …
News: Exhibition by world renowned music photographer Karen McBride “Just South of Memphis”
If you like Blues & Americana music and photography, then you need to get yourself to Leek next week, where artist and photographer Karen McBride, is showcasing a special exhibition at the Foxlowe Arts Centre to coincide with the 2023 Leek Blues & Americana Festival. Titled ‘Just South of Memphis’ it is a unique exhibition …
Track: Mike Skinner reveals new song in collaboration with 1800 Tequila brand
Musical collaborations have always been a thing in music, but now more and more artists, have commercial tie-ins with major clothing, sportswear and drink brands. Terrorvision sang about it in the 90’s and now Brummie rapper and producer Mike Skinner—of genre-defining and multi-award-winning The Streets— has joined forces with 1800 Tequila, who have just revealed the video for …
News: MPF 2024 – First line-up announcement released
TNS Records have just announced the first acts confirmed for Manchester Punk Festival 2024. Held over the Easter weekend, at various venues off Oxford Road, bands from all over the world descend for 3 days of punk mayhem. Pretty much every sub-genre from Hardcore to Skacore are represented. Already announced, Hot Water Music, Pissed Jeans, …
News: The Hoosiers announce UK tour ahead of release of new album “Confidence”.
Kicking off in Bristol on 28 September, the tour will see stops in Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and Manchester before concluding at Koko in London on 5th October. After meeting in 1995, vocalist Irwin Sparkes and drummer Alan Sharland have been on an endless adventure around the globe ever since. Initially both playing in covers bands, the pair were advised to seek out their own life …
Premiere: Eldridge Rodriguez release Atrophy.
When this dropped in my Inbox to review, I almost passed it by, as I confess to never having heard of the artist before. A cursory glance at the accompanying press blurb, seemed to confirm my reservations as this is the bands 5th album, and apparently “marks a turn for the group, veering away from …
News: Cherry Red to release comprehensive box set by LA punk pioneers, The Runaways
The Runaways formed in LA in 1975 and recorded 4 studio albums between 1976-1978, before going their separate ways. Best known probably for the seminal track “Cherry Bomb”, which has featured on countless compilations and soundtrack albums, they were never very big in their own country but massive in Japan. Now Cherry Red Records have …
Album Review: CLT DRP – Nothing Clever, Just Feelings (Venn Records)
6 years in and Brighton based feminist electro-punk trio CLT DRP, have just dropped an absolute banger of an album, their second and first for Venn Records, home of Bob Vylan, Witch Fever and Meryl Streek. Recorded at Shaken Oak Studios in Oxford over the course of a week in March 2022, Nothing Clever, Just …