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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 …
SEE: Dope Body – ‘Known Unknown’: gloriously messy highlight from ‘Crack A Light’ gets visuals
NEED a big, dirty, cathartic winter lift? No need to dial. Doctor Dope Body has just the prescription for you. They’ve pulled what’s arguably the standout track from their most recent album, Crack A Light, “Known Unknown” – and given it some righteous visuals. The track? It’s the album closer, a brilliant distorted space-disco-punk-noise rattle: …
Track: Nopes announce new album ‘Djörk’ and premiere first single ‘Pocket Square Motherfucker’
Nopes have premiered the track ‘Pocket Square Motherfucker’, which is taken from the US noise punks’ forthcoming album “Djörk” that has been slated for release on January 29, 2021 via Magnetic Eye Records. Nopes comment on ‘Pocket Square Motherfucker’: “We usually start our records with something a little more poppy and accessible, but wanted to start this one off …
Track: The Vibrators and Chris Spedding – Mars Casino
Punk rock icons The Vibrators reunite with guitar slinging legend Chris Spedding for a brand new album of real vintage punk rock that will take you back to 1976 when this pair released their first collaboration. First taste comes in the form of title track – Mars Casino via Cleopatra Records. Steady drumming and big …
PREMIERE: Disco Zombies – ‘Drums Over London’: see the video for a track from Optic Nerve’s forthcoming deluxe punk reissue
YOU’VE got to applaud Optic Nerve; the Preston label that reissues some of the most excellent lost cult classics of British punk and indie culture (am I alone in finding my jaw drop involuntarily when I found you could buy a new pressing of, say, The Loft’s “Up The Hill And The Down The Slope” …
Album Review: The Cribs – ‘Night Network’: their best yet?
Replete with unparalleled displays of riff-age. Riddled with lyrical honesty. An uncompromising garage-punk production. Each of The Cribs’ releases has honed these and other facets with increasing skill and, as preceding albums have progressively done, Night Network embellishes The Cribs’ sound with the brothers’ continuously developing songwriting and influences, while still retaining that indelible and …