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Album Review: Milk Teeth – Vile Child
Milk teeth are the band you’re going to be spending the next few weeks struggling to get out of your head. With the release of their debut full length album, Vile Child, the Stroud four piece bring a record dripping in distortion soaked melodies and contagiously catchy choruses to your eagerly awaiting ear drums. After …
Album Review: Savages – Adore Life
It is rare that I will just sit down and write an album review after my first listen. I like to give my brain some breathing space, to come to terms with what I’ve heard and collect my feelings. Not so this time.The new album from London post-punk four-piece Savages has compelled me to start …
See: Giants release new video for ‘Break The Cycle’, plus January tour dates
Essex punk rock five piece GIANTS have been building solid support, both in their own manor and further afield in recent times. They’ve supported the likes of H2O, Comeback Kid, The Ghost Inside and have released DIY EP’s and vinyl singles along the way. They’re ow working on a full length album with Neil Kennedy …
Track: Biscuits for Bears – Vanity Dare
Biscuits for Bears are from Cambridgeshire and consist of Ben Kingsbury (guitar, vocals) Gaz Jones (the drums) Hollywood Sparks (bass, vocals) Richard Van Archer (guitar, vocals). They’ve been honing their craft and supporting bands and artists such as Andy Cairns, The Nightingales and Allusondrugs, for the last year, and have headed into the studio, the …
Premiere: Seep Away – Trudge
Seep Away are a York/Manchester noise-punk quartet, and we here at backseat mafia are delighted to premiere their debut single, Trudge, taken from their forthcoming self-titled EP. It’s this dark twisting mass of edgy guitar riffs and splashing drums at the beginning, as it lays down (in no uncertain terms) their muscular delaration. From there …
Track: Baby in Vain – “Worthwhile” + UK tour dates
Danish punk trio Baby In Vain are set to return to the UK this week with a string of dates, including support slots for The Wytches. In addition to the return to these shores, the band have just dropped latest track “Worthwhile”. Penned by vocal and guitarist, Andrea, the track deals with her growing feelings …
See: Woahnows release video for Puncher
Hopt on the heels of their debut album ‘Understanding, and everything else’ Plymouth punks Woahnows have released a new video for the track ‘Puncher’ to coincide with a handful of US tour dates, which saw them in Philadelphia last night and Richmond tonight. Talking about the track, Tim Rowing-Parker comments “The song is about self-frustration. …
See: Chastity – “Saliva” + Tour dates
Canadian band Chastity have just unleashed their latest track “Saliva”, it’s a pretty damn savage tune, that is more than capable of standing out among the plethora of punk music out there at the moment. But when you get the track played alongside the video, you get one of the most powerful, thought provoking, and …
Album Review: The Garden – Haha
Welcome to a land that’s familiar, yet slightly out of sync, and a little bit unnerving. Welcome to The Garden and their latest album ‘Haha’. The Californian duo have put together an album that at first glimpse makes about as much sense as their ‘vada vada’ philosophy – “… an idea that represents pure creative expression …
See: PROM Reveal new music video for ‘Touch Me’ + LIVE DATES
Seedy back street London punks PROM follow up their self-released debut 7” ‘Celebrate’ / ‘Cry Baby Cry’ later this month with another AA single – ‘Touch Me’/’I’ll Teach You’. Taking inspiration from Nine Inch Nails ‘March of the Pigs’, the band have just released the video for ‘Touch Me’. Directed by Katia Ganfield and shot entirely on …