punk/post-punk
Album Review: The Vibrators – The Epic Years 1976-78 4CD Set
Along well before 1976, The Vibrators had done there time playing the London Pub circuit, hanging at The Elgin Pub, with Strummer and the 101ers, and crafting there own sound, early recording s with Chris Spedding on the RAK label were pretty much overlooked although they got a Peel session on the back of it, …
Meet: Cristina Martinez interview on new Boss Hog album ‘Brood X’
After nearly two decades of osmosis, New York’s glorious garage-noise hybrids Boss Hog are back. Their first studio album in almost twenty years ‘BROOD X’ emerges from gestation on March 24th via Bronze Rat Records and its ravenous. Fear not, for ‘Brood X’ feels not like the work of a group who’ve been on ice …
Album Review: Year of Birds – ‘White Death to Power Alan’
For fans of The Fall, The Wolfhounds, Clinic, and the noisy end of the C86 sound ‘Year of Birds’ are a Teesside based post-punk outfit and have just released their new album ‘White Death To Power Alan” The LP out on Odd Box (Wolfhounds) and is their most focused to date whilst still retaining they’re …
Live Review: State Champs, Leeds Beckett University – 16.03.17
A tour like this has possibly been in the minds of pop punk fans for a while, As It Is backing up their impressive new album okay. and State Champs, coming up to the two year anniversary of their newest album Around The World And Back are arguably two of the best UK (As It …
PREMIERE: INTRODUCING SCAB HAND & THEIR DEBUT RELEASE ‘IRREGULAR BED’
Squeezing out from between the cracks in the floorboards of the garage punk underground come’s Scab Hand. They’re loud, visceral and they will make you itch. Scratch that itch and just below the surface you’ll find ex-members of Love Buzzard rubbing body parts with ex members of Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, giving us a cross …
Meet: Washington Hardcore Punks Technicians
We recently featured Mistakes, the new single from Washington DC hardcore punks Technicians, which dropped ahead of their album Now That We’re Home. It’s a record that was first recorded in 2015, but, unhappy with the results – the band went back and re-recorded the whole thing. It’s filled with adrenaline soaked melodic punk, that …
Track: Dead Naked Hippies – Drain You
Taken from the upcoming Dance To The Radio Records 4×12” Compilation, Drain You is the new single from Leeds trash punks (their own description) Dead Naked Hippies. Of the track, the bands Lucy Jowett explains “‘Drain You’ is a ‘fuck you’ to the voice that says you can’t….Don’t be a bystander, be strong minded and …
New Music: Loom – Hate
Taking their lead from the likes of The Jesus Lizard, Bad Brains, Pixies, GG Allin, Misfits, and Warsaw – all of whom they covered on an early Cassette EP, Leamington Spa’s Loom make dark aggressive music that flits between goth, punk and grunge. Having garnered support from the likes of Zane Lowe and Daniel P …
Album Review: Pissed Jeans – Why Love Now
Pissed Jeans are angry. I know what you’re going to say – Pissed Jeans are always angry, right? Well, that’s as maybe but with new album Why Love Now, they’ve reached certainly the epoch of their own anger, hate and general malice for life and the wider Trump-filled world. Even more than it’s predecessor 2013’s …
Track: At the drive in – Incurable Innocent
As if the excitement wasn’t enough with the news that At the Drive in are to release their first new album in 17 years, in • ter a • li • a, out on Rise Records on May 5th, or from the first track to be unveiled ‘Governed By Contagions’, the band have released a …