punk/post-punk
Track: Ferocious Dog Share Video For Track ‘The Hope’ To Coincide With World Mental Health Day
To coincide with World Mental Health day Ferocious Dog share the video for ‘The Hope’, the title track taken from their forthcoming new album due 15th October via Graphite Records. The band comments: “The Hope is exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a song that shows you when things are at their very darkest, there’s always …
Track: Lily Konigsberg – Proud Home
Lily Konigsberg has shared her new single, ‘Proud Home’ which comes as the final advance-single from her forthcoming debut LP, ‘Lily We Need To Talk Now’ due 29th October via Wharf Cat. Konigsberg comments: “This song was inspired by a fictional story I made up in my dreams about my mom being Stacy’s mom,” she says. “It’s a song dedicated to Adam Schlesinger …
News: Wrongpop Records & Running Punks announce charity compilation
Wrongpop Records have announced a new charity compilation album in collaboration with Running Punks in aid of the Single Homeless Project, a London based charity that label founder Stephen Clarke works for. Stephen is also a part of the Running Punks, who you might know from their YouTube videos reviewing albums while they run. Stephen comments: “we want …
Track: Pozi – Typing
Pozi are set to releases their EP ‘Typing’ next month via PRAH recordings. The band have shared the title track which dives into the darker side of instant messaging. The track explores how instant messaging has made negative interactions a constant, unwanted part of our day to day lives. The title references the anxious feeling …
Track: The Baboon Show – Oddball
Swedish punk rockers The Baboon Show are set to drop their EP Oddball next year via Kidnap Music/Cargo Records. They have shared the title track as a taster. For all Oddballs, as The Baboon Show call it and to which they count themselves. In their own words: “Be whoever you wanna be and have fun …
Live Review: Slam Dunk North
Post-covid.. we’re getting there. Live music is back in everyone’s lives and what a way to kick off mass gatherings than an absolute riot at the UK’s best rock/pop-punk festival, Slam Dunk. After changing locations a couple of times in the last decade, the festival now boasts 6 stages of good vibes and great bands …
New York punks The Jukebox Romantics channel their inner Mariah Carey for new video ‘Hey Nora’
Taken from their forthcoming EP ‘Fires Forming’ – out on December 17th via Sell the Heart Records (U.S.) and Engineer Records (UK), New York based punk quartet The Jukebox Romantics have just released the new video for ‘Hey Nora’, which channels the bands inner Fantasy-era Mariah four the shoot, which took place at the historic …
EP Review: Desperate Measures – Rinsed
Desperate Measures formed in Christchurch, New Zealand, way back in 1981, a bundle of angry, aggressive polemic, pissed off with politicians, fake news, and the unfairness of fucked-up society. Not much has changed, then, in the forty years since – apart from geography, the internet, and the odd line-up change along the way. With original …
Premiere: Italian post-punks Edna Frau release new video for Angry Face Man; See it here, first
Edna Frau is essentially the side project of Postvorta’s Andrea Fioravanti, but rather than the extreme sounds of that band, he runs down a more catchy, post-punk avenue. The outfit, which includes Vincenzo ‘Vins’ Baruzzi of The Doormen and Annihilator drummer Fabio Alessandrini, have recently released their debut album ‘My Ego is Bigger Than Yours’ …
News: UK/NZ punk stalwarts Desperate Measures to release new mini-album ‘Rinsed’ on September 3rd.
Desperate Measures, the London/New Zealand punk-rock four-piece, release their new mini-album ‘Rinsed’ through Easy Action Records on September 3rd, featuring the new line-up of founding member Eugene Butcher, Gaff (ex-Glitterati and current Rich Ragany and the Digressions guitarist), bassist Ricky McGuire (U.K. Subs & The Men They Couldn’t Hang), and former K-Line and Done Lying …