punk/post-punk
Track: Batteries – The Fall-In-Love Club
If you remember the day-glow dork punk (I just thought of that, and I quite likes it) of Bis, Steven Clark will be a vaguely familiar figure in his guise as Sci-Fi Steven. Fast forward to the now, and he’s back in his Batteries guise with a new single, The Fall-in-love club, a warning sign …
See: Slow Riot release Trophy Wife video + Gig news
Slow Riot follow up their very well recieved EP ‘Cathedral’ with another cut of classic sounding post-punk. “Trophy Wife” see’s the band from Limerick, a town more notorious for knife play than music (although it did give us The Cranberries ), continue to drive along the new wave style way, twisting the basics laid down …
Live, The Stranglers, Birmingham 02 Academy, 12.03.16
I don’t really know how to begin. I’ve been seeing The Stranglers live for nearly forty years. There is no band that I have seen more times than this one. I’ve seen The Stranglers be brilliant, and I have seen The Stranglers when they appear to have lost their collective way and fall short of …
Meet: Miss Vincent interview
Miss Vincent are going places- having released their second EP Reasons Not To Sleep earlier last year, they’re writing music once again, as well as being out on tour at the moment with FVK! We caught up with the whole band, which consists of Alex who provides vocals and guitar, Owain on bass, Jack on …
Album Review: Various Artists: Roadkill Records Vol.1
Somewhere in the frozen wastelands of the North country. Our correspondent sits by an open fire. Down, but not quite broken, he tries to make sense of his current situation… “For some time, rumour’s and whispering’s had been coming out of the South of a happenings going on in the big city. Out here in …
News: Reading and Leeds Festival Announce Final Co-Headliners
Leeds Festival announced its final two headliners this week! This year the Reading and Leeds Festivals will have no less than FIVE headliners across the three days; wherein there are co-headliners on two of the days, and they take turns topping the bill at either Reading or Leeds. So, joining this bill as the Friday …
See: Life reveal video for Popular Music
Nothing like a straight up cup of fully caffineated punk-rock to kick start the week. “Popular Music” by Life is a fully charged double shot of the strong stuff, that’ll get you striding wide and fast, as you strut yourself down the high street towards whatever mundane tasks lay ahead for the next few days. …
Premiere: darkdarkhead – Falling Upwards
We’re delighted to premiere the new, second single titled Falling Upwards, to be taken from darkdarkdarkhead’s new EP Strange Weather, which drops on March 25th via Saint Marie. Already having been the subject of a retrospective via Captured Trakcs, the band have continued to make slightly psychedelic shoegaze despite the band’s singer leaving in 2009. …
Track: Tacocat – Talk
Tacocat compel us to listen to their clever pop-punk with new single ‘Talk’. This is the second single from their highly anticipated album ‘Lost Time’, which is due for release on 1 April via Hardly Art Records. ‘Talk’ begins with an addictive riff supported by hand clapping, an intense bassline and pounding drums. The track …
See: Cannibal Animal release new video for I Feel alive
Cannibal Animal have their roots deeply embedded in the darker more primal side of the current post-punk scene. Latest single, ‘I Feel Alive’ hits you like an adrenalised shot of amphetamine spiked directly into your frontal lobe. This is raw to the power of eleven. Plug into the power speakers and turn it up loud, …