punk
Track: Horror In Clay – Burnt Hands
Horror In Clay return with another track from their recording sessions with Aonghas Jones in the form of ‘Burnt Hands’ via Muzai Records. ‘Burnt Hands’ is another testament to the sheer antagonistic nature of Horror In Clay’s music. It’s utterly beautiful in all its piss-and-vinegar, macabre glory.Its crashing drums and sludgy awkward guitars with thick bass …
Track: Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death plus album news
Last year, Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. released what what I considered to be one of the best albums of the year, if not decade, with ‘Dogrel’. All the more incredible considering it was their debut album. 2019 began with them playing small venues around the UK (see my review of their April 2019 Manchester gig) and …
Obituary – Dave Greenfield of The Stranglers 29.3.49 – 3.5.20
Dave Greenfield was keyboard player in The Stranglers, frontrunners in the Punk movement. In a genre where lack of musicality was sometimes seen as a badge of honour, his virtuosity stood out from the very beginning, giving the band a sound that set them apart from their contemporaries. Often compared to Ray Manzarek from The …
See: Destroy Boys release new single and lyric video for “Honey I’m Home”
The San Francisco Bay Area trio Destroy Boys have released their latest single “Honey I’m Home” The song is about feeling trapped. Even if your body is physically free, if something has control over you, that control follows you wherever you go, and you always end up returning to it. “It was written at a …
SEE: PABST share video for new single “Hell”
Berlin’s Pabst have shared the video for brand-new single Hell, a song that openly confronts the darker emotions within one’s self. Drummer Tore Knipping explains: “The song Hell is about the darker feelings inside of you, them returning once in a while and sucking you into a hole. It sounds feasible; enlightenment can sometimes only be found …
TRACK: BOWLING FOR SOUP – WHEN THE ANGELS SING (SOCIAL DISTORTION COVER)
As part fo their 25 year celebration Bowling For Soup have released their latest cover track, ‘When The Angels Sing’ from revered So-Cal legends Social Distortion. Explaining their take on the song, frontman Jaret Reddick states, “July 2019, we began trying to release a cover song each month. That became a more difficult task than …
Album Review: Fake Names – “Fake Names”
Due for release on Epitaph Records May 8th, this debut album seems to have been on everybody’s radar since the the sharing of two teasing little snippets were unleashed, one early this year the sublime “Brick” and the other very recently in the form of the brilliant “First Everlasting” So getting to give this the …
SEE: Prefab Messiahs share new single and video for “21st Century Failure”
Pandemics rage! Economies totter! Political systems rot! — and the environment circles the drain… What better time for The Prefab Messiahs to release there latest single and video upon this world of turmoil. “21st Century Failure” released via their Bandcamp and all other good digital platforms. This is a say it as it is anthem …
See: Billy Talent Release New Single and Lyric Video for “I Beg To Differ”
Following the release of Reckless In Paradise in January, Billy Talent have unveiled another new track, I Beg To Differ (This Will Get Better). The song is the second to be taken from the Canadian punk legends’ as-yet-untitled new record, which very little is known about as yet, although if the two that so far have been streamed are anything …
EP: Body Farm Release Split with Slut Bomb – So This Is Progress
Noise punk is a variation of hardcore that is what it is for a reason, the message is of such, that screaming it out is a release as much as a getting the word out. Hence all releases tend to come with lyric sheets. Central Ohio based punk-leaning, political power violence quartet Body Farm have …