punk/post-punk
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 …
Track: Barry Adamson – Sweet Misery, plus UK tour dates
After a lifetime in music, Barry Adamson has announced details of a new six tracks EP Love Sick Dick, which drops on 14th April. From it, he’s released a new track, Sweet Misery, which Mark Radcliffe premiered on his 6Music Show. The whole EP Adamson sees as a blues – one lovelorn guy in all …
Track: Technicians – Mistakes
What do you do if you record your debut album, and are unhappy with the results. Well, if you’re Washington DC hardcore punk outfit Technicians, you throw it away and start again, this time doing it yourselves. Although the band had fully recorded their record Now That We’re Home in 2015, the new ‘version’ is …
Premiere: Low Cut Connie release video for Revolution Rock n Roll
What happens when things get rather out of hand. Low Cut Connie Frontman / songwriter Adam Weiner describes a night thats been documented in their new video for Revolution Rock n Roll as one where “the room was throbbing with existential tension and orgiastic release…our fans showed up stressed and depressed and we gave them …
Track: H. Grimace share Land/Body and announce debut album
H. Grimace give us plenty to smile about with their brooding and swirling new single ‘Land/Body’. The London-based four-piece – of Hannah Gledhill (vocals/guitar), Marcus Browne (guitar), Corin Johnson (bass) and Diago Gomes (drums) – have just announced the release of their debut album, ‘Self Architect’ (out on 7 April via Opposite Number), following on …
See: GOD DAMN unveil a ‘Thriller’ of a video for new single ‘It Bites’!
Grunge-gaze-psych-rockers God Damn return from the other side in their new video for single ‘It Bites’. Produced by Ross Orton (The Fall, Drenge, Tricky, MIA) and recorded at McCall Sound Studio in Sheffield, the festival friendly trio star in a mini horror flick inspired by a classic of the genre. One you may find familiar …
Track: Wire – Short Elevated Period
Nothing if not forward thinking, legendary post-punks Wire celebrate their 40th year in existance with a new album – their 15th, titled Silver/Lead, out on March 31st via the bands own pinkflag label. The first glimpse of what we can expect comes in the shape of a track – Short Elevated Period. The band show …