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SEE: Drama Dolls release new track, ‘Yes’: watch the video
SOMEWHERE in between the Misfits and The Bangles, or a love child of the Ramones and the Go-Go’s, Drama Dolls fill a void in our musical souls we didn’t know we had. Now, following the widely praised single “Favorite Girl,” Drama Dolls give us a chance to sink into nostalgia and rock out with their newest track. …
News: Fontaines D.C. announce further 2021 UK tour dates
The Dublin-based band, after receiving well-deserved praise for recently released A Hero’s Death, have announced another set of tour dates in Edinburgh, Nottingham, Bath and Liverpool. This follows the quintet’s immensely popular return to live gigs, albeit virtual ones, with an audience peaking at 4000. Their newly announced dates come after several previously announced sold …
ALBUM REVIEW: NOFX vs Frank Turner – ‘West Coast Vs Wessex’: a transatlantic punk song trade
IT’S a split album, but it’s not a split in the standard form. In one corner you have NOFX, probably the best and most forthright pop punk band ever to grace your ears, who have teamed up with Frank Turner, the Wessex purveyor of punk attitude filled slabs of rock/folk. They’re not satisfied with doing …
TRACK: MUCK SPREADER SHARE NEW SINGLE CARNAL TONGUES & ANNOUNCE NEW EP RODEO MISTAKES
The improvisational collection that go under the name Muck Spreader, are about to unleash onto the world their EP Rodeo Mistakes due September 4th via Brace Yourself Records. To go with this news the band have shared the brilliant single ‘Carnal Tongues’ On ‘Carnal Tongues’, Muck Spreader offer the following, “Hop into the passenger side, …
EP: Eades Release Debut EP – ‘Microcosmic Things’
Leeds quintet Eades release debut EP debut ‘Microcosmic Things’ via their own label Bam Bam records. The band comments, “Making the EP was a massive learning curve for us. Deciding to do a small collection of songs as opposed to a run of singles meant that we had to do something somewhat coherent. This made …
Track: Isle of Wight beach punks REMINDERS share new single ‘Seaside Scampi’
Isle of Wight beach punks Reminders are back with a pre lock down demo song that was sitting around gathering dust, due to the lack of togetherness that bands normally require to feed the artistic hunger, they have blown the dust away and worked their magic on a track that now gets it’s pride of …
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 a video for “Role Model”, taken from the EP, and it’s a very fine 129 seconds of towering guitar abuse. The track sneaks on a …
News: The Subways Record A Brand New Version Of ‘Rock & Roll Queen’
Isolated in their respective domains (Josh in France, Charlotte in Sheffield, and Billy in Hertfordshire), The Subways have attempted to curb the frustration of their tour being cancelled, by recording a brand new version of seminal single ‘Rock & Roll Queen’ – available exactly 15 years since its initial release. Not satisfied with just one version, frontman Billy Lunn …
News: The Vandals release 25th anniversary vinyl reissue of ‘Live Fast, Diarrhea’.
Label Craft Recordings are excited to announce a 25th anniversary vinyl reissue of The Vandals Live Fast, Diarrhea the fourth studio album by the southern California punk rock band The Vandals. Released in 1995 by Nitro Records, it was the band’s first album for Nitro, and the breakthrough album from the snarky Southern Californian punk outfit. Set for an August 14th release, the LP will be pressed …
Track: Frank Turner covers NOFX Falling In Love Taken From Split Album With NOFX
Frank Turner has just released a cover of NOFX’s ‘Falling In Love’, taken from the forthcoming split covers album West Coast Vs. Wessex between himself and NOFX, which is due for release via Fat Mike’s own Fat Wreck Chords label on July 31, 2020. Both artists take five tracks each. As well as Franks five covers, West Coast Vs. Wessex, captures NOFX filtering …