News: Cash & Carter release stunning version of Cure song, Just Like Heaven
Now, there are certain unwritten rules in life. Don’t mess with your best mate’s wife/GF/partner (delete as applicable), don’t eat the yellow snow and never cover tracks by iconic bands such as Joy Division etc. However, as the saying goes “rules are made to be broken” (apart from the yellow snow one!!), and only by …
News: Idles announce new LP and single
Photo Credit – Tom Ham Bristol’s IDLES have just announced their follow up to the Grammy nominated Crawler. Titled Tangk (nope me neither!) it will be released on Partisan Records on 16th Feb 2024. Pronounced “tank”, the album was co-produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, The Smile, Beck), the band’s Mark Bowen and Kenny Beats (Denzel …
News: Sheila Rock returns with a new book documenting the 80s New Romantic scene
A year on from her brilliant book the 80s, Sound And Vision, Sheila Rock is back with another. This time diving deeper into the decade, looking at the new romantic scene. Subtitled from Billy’s to the People’s Palace, it is a limited edition of just 800 copies. The punk scene which came before it, should …
Meet: Post Punk legend and all round nice guy – Jah Wobble
So, when I set up this interview with Jah Wobble (thanks to Ian Cheek PR), I was warned to keep any mention of football until the end, otherwise I’d never get John Wardle (Jah’s real name), off the subject. However, both sharing an addiction to our beloved Tottenham Hotspur, who were top of the league, …
News: Smashing Pumpkins & Weezer announce joint UK dates for summer 2024
Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer will head to the UK and Ireland next June for a series of 6 co-headlining shows. It’s the Pumpkins first UK show since 2018 and first proper UK tour since 2013. Since then they’ve released 4 studio albums, the latest of which, Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts, was released …
News: Wibbling rivalry – Liam steals a march on brother Noel with “Definitely Maybe” 30th anniversary UK tour
Image Credit: Jill Furmanovsky The Gallagher brothers are showing no evidence that there is any Oasis reunion in the pipeline. Liam has just stolen a march on his older sibling by announcing a 12 date UK tour to mark the 30th anniversary of their debut LP “Definitely Maybe”, playing the album in full along with …
Album Review: Twin Temple – God Is Dead
Satanic doo-wop is certainly not a genre I’ve reviewed before, but Twin Temple have corrected that with this, their second studio album God Is Dead. Self proclaimed practicing satanists, the husband and wife duo of vocalist Alexandra James and guitarist Zachary James, formed Twin Temples in 2017 in an attempt to challenge the dominance that …
News: Noah & The Loners – “Hell of A Day” (Marshall Amplification)
Pic Credit: Andi Callen Photography. All Rights Reserved Back in July, we tipped Noah And The Loners as one of the 50 artists to watch at this year’s Rebellion Punk Festival at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens. That feeling was purely based on two YouTube videos that I stumbled across whilst doing my research. 4th August 2023 …
News: The Battery Farm – House Of Pain (Rare Vitamin Records)
Pic Credit: Andi Callen Photography – All Rights Reserved It’s been a pretty successful last 18 months for Manchester “gutter punks”, The Battery Farm. Signing to Rare Vitamin Records, releasing a couple of EPs, a debut LP “Flies” and an appearance at Rebellion Punk Festival. All bucket list stuff in the eyes of lead singer …
Track: Desperate Measures announce video for new single “Sublime Destruction”
Pic Credit: Louise Phillips New Zealand born, London based rockers Desperate Measures return October 13th with a banging brand-new thrill ride titled ‘Sublime Destruction’. A high-voltage, hook-laden smasher, it comes firing out of the traps, all guns blazing and all speakers blaring. Guitarist Gaff is really at the top of his game on this, a …