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NEWS: KEG announce new EP Girders, release new single ‘Elephant’ and confirm extensive tour dates.

The seven members of the band KEG looking at the camera

Brighton based KEG have released new single ‘Elephant‘ taken from their upcoming EP Girders set for release 2 September on Alcopop! Records/BMG. KEG live in a bonkers alternative universe as anyone who has seen their live shows…

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The three band member sof Lady Bird looking at the camera

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See: Lady Bird release video for single Bludsuckers

Kent punks Lady Bird have released a video for their latest single ‘Bludsuckers’, the final preview before the release of their debut album WE set for release 25 February via Alcopop! Records. Lady Bird is Don Bird (vocals/guitar/organ), Alex Deadman (guitar), Joe Walker (drums) and…

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See: DITZ get fiery ‘n’ wiry on declamatory new single, ‘The Warden’, extend their tour into next year

BRIGHTON’S DITZ, who, on more than one occasion this year we’ve found the overwhelming urge to catapult into the perspiring throng to, only to find our living rooms sadly lacking…

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Track: The Subways Share First Track ‘Fight’ Taken From Their Forthcoming 5th Album

The Subways guitarist Billy Lunn wrote new track ‘Fight’ after attending various marches during the band’s hiatus of 2016-2019, it was the Black Lives Matter marches in the summer of 2020.…

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Track: Home Counties – ‘White Shirt / Clean Shirt’: another punk-funk capitalist critique from brilliant Bristolians

FRESHLY pressed and starched, collars buttoned just so, Home Counties are back pursuing an ever more addictive, spasming line in capitalist critique encapsulated in wiry, fractured punk-funk. It’s like The…

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Track: Cherym release brilliant new single ‘Kisses On My Cards’

Northern Irish pop-punks Cherym have celebrated signing to Alcopop! Records by releasing a new single, Kisses on my Cards, out right now. The Derry trio released the record just in…

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Home Counties – ‘Modern Yuppies’: angular punk-funk takes on the consumerist dream

HOME COUNTIES who, despite the name, are a five-piece happy to gaze askance at all the weird doings of modernity from the safety of Bristol, release their third, three-minute dose…

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SEE: Ditz’s ‘Role Model’ is righteously noisy

BRIGHTON noiseniks Ditz have finally come down from the world of download-only and brought us five tracks of guitar-killin’ wax, in the shape of the 5 Songs EP. They’ve released…

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TRACK: Come for a dip with Snow Coats’ ‘Pool Girl’

BURGEONING Oxford indie imprint Alcopop! Records – having recently secured the services of angular Bristol geniuses Home Counties – has brought another very fine little band into the fold in…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Bo Ningen – Sudden Fictions

Meaning ‘Stick Man’ in Japanese, Bo Ningen are a London-based four-piece alternative rock band. Though they come from Gunma, Tajimi, Nishinomiya, and Tokyo in Japan, they coalesced in London. Two met…

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