post-punk
News: Wreckless Eric Announces New Album and Tour
Wreckless Eric (born Eric Goulden) released the brilliant “Whole Wide World” in 1977 (covered more recently by Cage the Elephant) and perfectly captured the late seventies post punk new wave zeitgeist with its laconic delivery and nihilistic lyrics. I suppose one could argue that this was a classic one hit wonder but Goulden, part of …
Album Review : The Soft Moon’s ‘Criminal’
Luis Vasquez seems like a guy with a lot of torment. He seems like a guy with a lot of existential turmoil to unpack. His work as The Soft Moon is a discography of pain, anger, and dark thoughts wrapped in a tattered post-punk bow. The music is always based in rhythm and percussive sway, …
EP: Cakes – Prescription Bugs
From the salubrious, white bread and somewhat anodyne Gold Coast of Queensland Australia comes the very antithesis in the form of Cakes, an indie post punk duo who are about to release an EP, “Prescription Bugs”. This EP is an anarchic thrash of guitars and drums leavened by epic choruses and flashes of unexpected subtlety. …
Track: Check Out The Soft Moon’s New Single “Choke”, plus album news
On February 2nd, Luis Vasquez, AKA The Soft Moon, will be releasing his debut record for Sacred Bones titled Criminal, which follows 2015s excellent Deeper. With just a little less than two weeks before the album’s release, Vasquez has released new single “Choke”. Check it out below: According to Vasquez, I created ‘Choke’ as a …
To The Outside Of Everything : Various Artists Post Punk Compilation
Compiled by the team behind other Cherry Red box sets (Scared To Get Happy, Still In A Dream, Millions Like Us, Action Time Vision, etc.), this 5 CD box set titled from Shot By Both sides the classic Magazine song explores the roots of Post Punk and the labels behind it. For most true Punk …
LIVE: THE FALL – WAKEFIELD – 20/10/17
Not just because it’s my home town, The Fall in Wakefield has always been special. I saw them here for the first time back in 1983 (For the record: First time Brix played with the band). It was the start of a mild obsession that has lasted to this day, and despite seeing them oh …
ALBUM REVIEW: Gary Crowley’s Punk and New Wave
As compilations go this is a great set, compiled by Gary and his Soho radio co host Jim Lahat this 3CD set gives a better insight into the Punk and New Wave scene than most. If you’ve not heard Crowley`s Show on Soho radio, you should tune in, his knowledge of punk and new …
TRACK: LUMER – HOMICIDE
Torn straight from The City of Culture, post-punk band LUMER introduce to us their latest single, ‘Homicide’. Ripped at every edge, with a white-knuckle freneticism and lyrics spat through gritted teeth, ‘Homicide’ has the post-punk attitude, but has twisted it into a much leaner, much wilder beast. The single was produced at The Nave in …
Album Review : Metz’ ‘Strange Peace’
I will admit that I have a bit of a dude crush on the Canadian rock band METZ. There’s just something about their intense brand of noise rock/post-punk gumbo that gets me in the gut. It’s a kind of rush that comes with a special sort of experience. Maybe like jumping out of a plane, …
Meet: TULIPOMANIA
We recently discovered a band from Philadelphia, called Tulipomania. They already have quite a lot of music out there and plenty of award-winning videos to go with that, but the progressive art rock outfit will soon be releasing a new maxi-single. Following up their fourth album ‘This Gilded Age’, released last year, they are offering three …