punk
News: Stiff Little Fingers announce 2024 UK tour
Stiff Little Fingers are pleased to announce their annual March UK dates for 2024 under the title “Hate Has No Home Here Tour”. Stiff Little Fingers will be joined on tour by very special guest, the legendary Glen Matlock. 2024 also celebrates 45th anniversary of the release of Stiff Little Fingers debut album, Inflammable Material, …
Video: Voodoo Radio – Dog
Cumbrian power-punk father-daughter duo Voodoo Radio continue to hurtle along since the release of debut record, Pop Pills via Holy Dotage Records back in January 2022. That collection of eight self-penned songs of pure pop-punk slayed all-comers. The band have continued to gain momentum since last year playing Twisterella and Kendall Calling, and having stacks …
Live Review: CIVIC – Mississippi Studios – Portland, Oregon – 18.10.2023
This past Wednesday Mississippi Studios in Portland, Oregon welcomed Australian punk band CIVIC with opening support from locals Cut Piece. CIVIC is on their first U.S. tour in support of the sophomore album Taken by Force. The Australian’s bringing a throwback punk sound, that has sounds of fast paced bands of the late 70’s while …
Track: A Swift Farewell return with another thumping emotive track ‘Like This (I Don’t Wanna Die)’
Following a rejuvenation and a welcome return with ‘Sorry’ earlier this year, Eora/Sydney band A Swift Farewell return to say hello with new track ‘Like This (I Don’t Wanna Die)’. With their thumping quiet/loud sound and yearning vocals, the band prove they are in form and as always, the band’s collective hearts are on their …
News: Noah & The Loners – “Hell of A Day” (Marshall Amplification)
Pic Credit: Andi Callen Photography. All Rights Reserved Back in July, we tipped Noah And The Loners as one of the 50 artists to watch at this year’s Rebellion Punk Festival at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens. That feeling was purely based on two YouTube videos that I stumbled across whilst doing my research. 4th August 2023 …
Premiere: Two Times Shy are at their ‘Wit’s End’ in a blistering pop punk blast.
Meanjin/Brisbane pop punkers Two Times Shy are not wilting wallflowers given evidence of their new single ‘Wit’s End’, which we are very pleased to premiere today. With a buzz saw blitz married with powerful vocals and a keen pop sensibility, ‘Wit’s End ‘ is a vibrant hyperkinetic track that emits thunderbolts. The blistering guitars range …
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 …