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Album Review: Spitting Image – Full Sun

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Album Review: Descendents – 9th & Walnut

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This week sees the release of The Undertones ‘West Bank Songs 1978-1983 – A Best Of’, featuring 30 tracks from their original recording period, 1978-1983. Compiled by the band.  Available as a double LP with 2x140g coloured vinyl discs with gatefold sleeve, the release features 7 top 40 hits (including 4 top 20s): ‘Teenage Kicks’, …

Lydon, Shelley & Diggle, Strummer and Jones. They were the great punk poets weren’t they? The less cliched among us would cast the net further and point to the genius of Ian Dury, a superior lyricist in every way to his punk peers. And then there was John Cooper Clarke, not a lyricist, but a …

London duo Cassels are gearing up to the releae of their second album, The Perfect Ending, which drops of 6th September via Big Scary Monsters Recordings. From it the band have released a new video for the title track. Much of the album is based on environmental issues, with The Perfect Ending being one of …

California punks Dad Brains have returned with a new coloured 7″ EP, Dadditde, out on June 14th via Pirates Press Records, and from it the band have released a new video for lead track ‘Fathers Day’. Of the track, frontman Pat Pedraza says  “I’ve never heard of a Fathers Day song in my life, so …

Ahead of tomorrow’s (31st May) release of their Decadent Sprinter EP via Blank Editions, London post-punks Ice Baths have revealed the last single to be taken from it, Clusters, following on from previous singles, Auster and Simulation. It’s a taught slice of post-punk/art rock, with these shards guitar shattering over the accompaniment in the verse …

What started out as an idea and an experimental studio collaboration by Blue Dot and Kendal Calling founder Ben Robinson, has ballooned into the Hello Cosmos of today, with over 50 collaborations and the core of a touring band. Taken from their upcoming EP, the band have released title track Run for President. It’s dark …

If you haven’t heard London all-girl quartet Madonnatron and you’re expecting from their name some kind of vivacious, day-glo punk/synth/pop thing with subject matter scattered between myths, legends, and things that would make your Grandad blush, then frankly you’d be spot on the money. If lead off single Sucker Punch caught your ear, you may …

Taken from their forthcoming album Dudu, out on July 26th via Captured Tracks, I want is the new single from New York post-punks B Boys. featuring Veronica Torres from Pill, I want, according to the band at least, is “…inspired by the frustration of having to demand for the things you innately deserve. It’s about …

Seminal label Speedy Wunderground is preparing for the release of the 29th single in their series and it’s from Leeds post-punk five piece Treeboy & Arc, who certainly announced their arrival with a minor prang involving a parked BMW next to the studio before even meeting label boss Dan Carey. Luckily, things took a turn …

It’s raining outside. I could happily lay my face on the table in front of me and go to sleep. And the reason I’m not is that is that playing in the background, pretty much on repeat, is Summerbore – the debut single from Norwegian power-pop punks The Needs. Formed by Kvelertak’s guitarist Maciek Ofstad and …