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Track: Blue Amber – Red Moon Song
Cardiff-based quartet Blue Amber share their new standalone offering ‘Red Moon Song’ which will be released on Wednesday 2nd December as part of new Cardiff record label Rose Parade Recording Co.’s Singles Club. Of the new release, Singer Drew explains, “Kumar, our guitarist sent me a guitar riff idea and I listened to it while …
Track: The Skids – Christmas In Fife
Scottish punk rockers The Skids have released a special tribute to their home land with the track – ‘Christmas In Fife’ Jobson says “Fife is a special place full of crazy but loveable people. The song is a fun tribute to them and everyone else on the planet who has gone through so much over …
SEE: Don Letts’ new video for The Clash’s ‘Magnificent Seven’
COME December 1980, and The Clash brought their all-encompassing ambition to bear on the triple-disc, 36-song Sandanista!, taking in dub, rockabilly, jazz, disco, hiphop, reggae and more. One of the singles to be spun off from the album was the open and funky “The Magnificent Seven”, which reached no.34 in the UK charts. And now, …
WATCH: IDLES share new video for ‘Kill Them With Kindness’
IDLES have shared a new animated video for album highlight “Kill Them With Kindness”. The video, which was directed and designed by James Carbutt and animated by Pip Williamson, is taken from the band’s critically-acclaimed UK number one album Ultra Mono, which was released in September via Partisan Records. Watch below: Looking ahead to 2021, IDLES are preparing …
SEE: Drive-By Truckers share visuals for their cover of Ramones’ ‘The KKK Took My Baby Away’
ATHENS, Georgia’s next most famous musical sons, Drive-By Truckers, have shared a lo-fi video for their cover of Ramones’ classic “The KKK Took My Baby Away”. Have a watch below. The cracking cover, in which they take Noo Yoik punk out for a spin way, waaaay past city limits and down south, is the knockabout closer …
Track: The Silver Lines release blistering piece of blitzkrieg pop in their new single ‘Skin’
Hailing from Birmingham, The Silver Lines take no prisoners with their new single ‘Skin’, which pelts along at a cantering pace with a louche and insolent delivery. Snotty, brash and driven on sky-scraping riffs and melody, this is good cathartic fun, and just what the doctor ordered to get rid of those isolation blues: You …
SEE: Generation – ‘Tokyo’: sleaze rock brothers take another glammy bite
TAKING on the all the glorious, skinny, wasted rock’n’roll tradition of the Stooges, the New York Dolls, early Manics, and throwing open a mascara and glam-riffing portal in the centre of their home city, Liverpool, Generation, the brainchild of brothers James and Dean Carne have just dropped their second mint into the fizzy drink of …
Track: Dream Nails Release ‘Lonely Star (Christmas Song)’
Dream Nails have released a modern-day classic of a Christmas song to round off a busy year for the punk witches. ‘Lonely Star (Christmas Song)’ features bassist Mimi Jasson jumping onto piano, with the band taking inspiration from the Christmas song books of Phil Spector and Weezer to write their own punk Christmas soundtrack, with a heart. “This …
TRACK: Death By Unga Bunga – ‘Egocentric’: your new Nordic garage-punk idols
NORWEGIAN quintet Death By Unga Bunga have recently announced the release of new album, Heavy Male Insecurity, which will be out on Jansen Records on February 12th; and they’ve trained their sights on your rawk heart with their latest single, “Egocentric”. Take a listen below. It takes everything that’s great about Nordic garage rock, gives it a little …
Track: Octopus Montage – A Shortcut (To The Unconscious Mind)
Octopus Montage unleash a beast of a new single – ‘A Shortcut (To The Unconscious Mind) taken from their forthcoming album ‘How To Live And How To Lose’ Written based on past experiences, vocalist Alex Jennings expresses the difficulty of enduring the issues ‘so tell me how do I lie to make myself feel better on the …