post-punk
NEWS: M(h)aol announce debut album, release powerful single Asking For It and confirm headline tour dates for 2023
M(h)aol announce their debut album Attachment Styles out 3 February 2023 via TULLE Collective. In addition they have also released new single ‘Asking For It’. Note: Trigger Warning. It’s a raw and personal song that has been developed over the years. It was the first work singer Róisín wrote to try and process some of …
Live Review: The Lounge Society – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds. 29.09.22
Having broken through in 2020, in the midst of lockdown, with 2 top class singles, this tour sees The Lounge Society on the road in support of their debut album Tired of Liberty. Produced by Dan Carey (Fontaines D.C., Wet Leg, Goat Girl), it’s an interesting mix of ideas that keeps you on your toes …
Premiere: Second Idol Release Scorching New Track ‘Dear X’ Plus We Interview The Band!
Be prepared to be blown away by Second Idol’s new track ‘Dear X’
PREMIERE: Vermont’s Tom Weir readies new EP as Old Moon, shares jangle-pop smash ‘All It Takes’
It would be fair to say Tom Weir’s been putting in work. In the past year alone, the Vermont-based artist has released two albums, a rarities compilation, an EP and a single, and he shows no signs of slowing down with his output of winsome, jangly, melodic post-punk. In recent years, the subgenre has been …
Live Review + Gallery: Johnny Hunter at The Republic Bar, Hobart 29/07/2022.
Post-punk Sydneysiders finish off their ‘Wait’ national album tour on a high. Johnny Hunter rolled into Hobart town last night and turned on a performance for the ages. Following on from the eclectic supports, World Class Cinema (Launceston) and Flower Extract (Hobart) the boys from New South Wales took to the stage and blasted their …
EP Review: Be Kind Cadaver – Postpartum : Highly charged electro post-punk, made to dig deeper
Now here’s a band that don’t hold back. Brighton/Lewes electronic post punk duo Be Kind Cadaver (Daniel Hignell-Tully and Leroy Brown) grab at real issues and wring them out through their highly charged, shell shocked anti-pop songs. Their debut EP ‘Postpartum’, available from 21st July on the forward thinking Difficult Art And Music label, probes …
Track: Newcastle quintet, DUST, release powerful new single “The Gutter”.
The Gutter is an industrial post-punk banger which spits venom from the very opening notes of its’ guitar intro, continuing at a frenetic pace throughout its’ electrifying two and a half minutes duration. Dust‘s most sophisticated song to date, The Gutter has shown another exciting side to the development of this young Newcastle band still …
PREMIERE: London duo Grieving Sea prep for ‘Donewiz’ album release with the haunting ‘The Sea Devours’
Genoa-based label Brucia Records prides itself on being a home for ‘uncanny, unsettling or unusual’ music, and the forthcoming debut album by Grieving Sea certainly fits that description. The 7-track LP slots nicely into the output of a label that’s put out material spanning a whole host of disparate subgenres like black metal, doom and …
Killing Joke // Albert Hall // Manchester
It’s great to see the original line-up from 1979 in all it’s power and glory. Despite numerous personnel changes over the years, this quartet have been reunited now for 14 years and sound as hypnotic as ever. With only 3 albums in that time, the last being Pylon in 2015, I was hoping that when …
Live: Dr. Sure’s Unusual Practice/Slag Queens/Brenda at Altar (nipaluna/Hobart) 25/03/2022
It was with a large slice of excited anticipation that I attended this gig. Two of Tassie’s finest post-punk exponents provided support for a band from Melbourne with the most “unusual” of names, Dr. Sure’s Unusual Practice. Dr Sure are a part of the Marthouse Records stable, which is owned by the band’s leader, Dougal …