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Track: Melbourne punk trio CLAMM unleash blistering single ‘Liar’ to whet appetite for album ‘Beseech Me’
Fasten your seatbelts for the blistering new sing ‘Liar’ from Melbourne punks CLAMM. There are no such things as brakes when you get on board – ‘Liar’ is a frenetic unhinged blast of fury bookended by howling feedback and with rocket-fueled vocals. It’s cathartic and it’s explosive but also done with impeccable style. The band …
News: Dark Horse Records Set To Release A Joe Strummer Collection Featuring Previously Unreleased Version Of Junco Partner
Punk poet, musician, composer, actor, and style icon, Joe Strummer spent his life smashing musical and cultural boundaries both as the singer of The Clash and as a solo artist. His songs sound as urgent and vital today as when they were written. Calling out social injustices and giving a voice to the struggles of …
Track: KÄRBHOLZ reveal second video from upcoming Kontra. album
Today, German punk/rock titans Kärbholz reveal the new video “Der Schwarze Schwan.” The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated new album, Kontra., set for international release on March 26th via Metalville Records. See & hear Kärbholz‘s “Der Schwarze Schwan” video in its entirety here: Says the band about this new video, “‘The Black Swan’ tells of what happens when grief becomes …
Track: A pop punk blast from Sydney’s SoSo delivers the ultimate laconic message: ‘Yeah, Nah’
SoSo aren’t very happy and you can’t really blame them. The News South Wales Government shut down an entire night time subculture in Sydney’s erstwhile good time suburb Kings Cross by banning clubs and pubs from opening late following some random acts of drunken violence. This ultimately lead to a number of iconic music venues …
Track: DeeCRACKS – Don’t Turn Your Heart Off
Austrian punks DeeCRACKS have released their video for ‘Don’t Turn Your Heart Off’, the second single from the band’s new record Serious Issues which is out now via Pirate Press Records. “This one is dedicated to all the people who aren’t afraid of believing in themselves and are following their own path. To me, that’s what defines punk. …
Track: Belvedere – Good Grief Retreat
Canadian skate punk band Belvedere have released the first single ‘Good Grief Retreat’, taken off the upcoming LP ‘Hindsight Is The Sixth Sense,’ set for release (digital/CD/vinyl ) on May 14 via Thousand Islands Records in North America and Lockjaw Records in Europe and the UK. Belvedere’s Steve Rawles says, “This song speaks of the average worker and the system that benefits off their labour. …
Track: Harker – The Beast Must Die
Brighton, UK punk rock band Harker have shared a new single ‘The Beast Must Die’. The track is taken off the band’s upcoming LP ‘Axiom’ out April 23rd on Wiretap Records, Disconnect Disconnect Records, Shield Recordings, Fixing A Whole Records. “The Beast Must Die’ is based on the idea of ‘Mono-consciousness’ by English writer Colin Wilson – as a philosopher, Wilsons writing …
See: Generation – ’21st Century Woman’: are our favourite Merseyside glamsters teetering on the edge?
LIVERPUDLIAN glamour trash punk brothers Generation are teetering on the edge of fratricide in their new video, ground down by the demands of rock ‘n’ roll, by cheap rum – these guys have taste – that ain’t Captain Morgan’s, no way, José. The trials and tribulations of the life of a glam rock duo, all …
Track: KAI CULT lights a fuse with ‘Cigarette Burns’
With a frenetic pace tilting along at full speed, Melbourne artist KAI CULT‘s new single ‘Cigarette Burns’ is energetic, unhinged and absolutely satisfying. Like a masked antagonist careering through the night with a chainsaw, the music slashes and burns under the band’s disturbed, yelping, laconic vocals. It’s controlled chaos, utterly cathartic with a genetic connection …
TRACK: Death By Unga Bunga – ‘White Lies’: one final power-punk blast before the album
COMING atcha from their roots as an actual, proper, garage punk band – they formed from auditions held in guitarist Sebastian Ulstad Olsen’s garage, what’s not to like? – Norway’s power punk five piece Death By Unga Bunga have shared one final, super-infectious nugget on the trail blazing towards their album, Heavy Male Insecurity, which will …