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Album Review: The Fall – The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country On The Click) 20th anniversary reissue

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Album Review: Suburban Studs – Slam 2 CD Set On Cherry Red Records

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Album Review: Chelsea – The Step-Forward Years 1977-82 4CD Box Set

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Perennial Punk Rockers STIFF LITTLE FINGERS are unfortunately not able to go ahead with their postponed March 2020 dates that were rescheduled for September this year. Due to the continued current ban on live events, all dates are put back to March 2021, back on track with the bands annual UK trek. Jake Burns says it like it is: “Don’t …

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Featuring Captain Sensible and Paul Gray from the Damned!A limited edition 7″ (300 in Grey and 300 in Red) by The Sensible Gray Cells. Released on July 24th! Who, what and why are The Sensible Gray Cells? Captain :- Paul Gray and myself being garage psych aficionados would prefer to hear more of this kind of music …

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Ignitemares are a three piece punk band in the vane of Toy dolls by the sound of their latest offering. Coming out of Wales, they take what is topical and add there slice of welsh humour to spice it up, but with a very keen eye on not losing the message. ‘Bombs and Promises’ is …

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Dead Horse are a new down & dirty garage / punk trio from London influenced by the likes of Jay Reatard, The Cramps, 80s Matchbox, etc.They are self-releasing their debut EP titled ‘Dead Horse I’ on 10th July 2020. Dead Horse formed in 2019 when former Love Buzzard (Fluffer/1-2-3-4 Records) front man Kevin Lennon (bass/vox) …

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The brutal and eminently vital IDLES have just released a video for a new song – ‘Grounds’ – and announced details of the release of their third album – ‘Ultra Mono’ – out on 25 September 2020 through Partisan Records. ‘Grounds’ is pure IDLES – swiftly moving, aggressive and sharp yet leavened by a poetic …

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BIRMINGHAM’S bubblegum punk legends We’ve Got a Fuzzbox And We’re Going To Use It are back – with a shiny reimagining of the X-Ray Spex classic “I Can’t Do Anything”.  The seed to take on Poly Styrene’s first-wave punk number was sown at last year’s Polyfest: a celebration of the X-Ray Spex singer held each …

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MANCHESTER-based, Doncaster-bred goth-punk outfit The Blinders are back in the fray, with their second album in the can – and their latest single “Mule Track” is a dark thrust into the psyche. The track is named for the painting in the Imperial War Museum, which depicts a mule train making its way through a battlefield. …

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COMING just weeks after Thrill Jockey put out his politically charged, drifting, textured set Shall We Go on Sinning So That Grace May Increase?, The Soft Pink Truth  – Drew Daniels of sonic mavericks Matmos – has released a companion album; except this set consists entirely of anarcho-punk covers. Whereas Shall We Go on Sinning …

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Lady Bird are purveyors of a fresh new punk/grime sound, coming out of Kent, the three piece are set to releases their latest EP ‘BRAINWASH MACHINE SETTING’, out June 26th via Purple Stains/ JägerMusik This latest release drags punk well into the here and now, Wonk Unit meets Mike Skinner is as good an analogy as any. This video …

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Riskee And The Ridicule from Kent, have shared this wonderfully in your face piece of lyrically angry, yet musically smiling, art. In a time of rising nationalism, fuelled by a political landscape that leaves the needy behind, and an anti EU feeling that has been polarised by a Brexit vote that also divided the nation. …

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