punk
Track: Lily Konigsberg – That’s The Way I Like It
Lily Konigsberg, from art rock band Palberta, is announcing her solo debut LP, ‘Lily We Need To Talk Now’ due 29th October via Wharf Cat. The title is taken from a text she received from the album’s producer Nate Amos of the band Water From Your Eyes. Along with the announcement Konigsberg release of the album’s first single ‘That’s The Way I …
Track: Sydney-based indie rockers Bellwether release the anthemic ‘Shortsighted’
Bellwether have released a dynamic slab of indie rock with their single ‘Shortsighted’, incorporating a Pixies-style quiet/loud ethic and a huge anthemic blast of melody. What is even more impressive is that this is their debut single. Based in Sydney, the band has grown from a number of local acts into something of some stature: …
EP Review: Desperate Measures – Rinsed
Desperate Measures formed in Christchurch, New Zealand, way back in 1981, a bundle of angry, aggressive polemic, pissed off with politicians, fake news, and the unfairness of fucked-up society. Not much has changed, then, in the forty years since – apart from geography, the internet, and the odd line-up change along the way. With original …
Premiere: Sunshine Coast’s Muules kick off with their thumping new single ‘Drain’ and announce launch gig.
We are proud to premiere today the single from Sunshine Coast indie punk rock purveyors Muules, whose new track ‘Drain’ is a vibrant and throbbing track filled with a visceral rhythmic pulse that beats like a racing heart. Even more extraordinary is that the huge sound and attack comes from just a bass and drums …
News: The legendary Australian punks The Hard-Ons announce You Am I’s Tim Rogers as new frontman, a new album and a single ‘Hold Tight’ to spark things off.
The shock announcement that veteran indie band You Am I‘s enigmatic Tim Rogers was joining venerable Australian punks The Hard-Ons as a permanent frontman is only matched by the immediate surprise release today of a new single and news of an album from the iconic band. The new album, amusingly entitled ‘I’m Sorry, Sir, That …
Track: Amyl and the Sniffers aren’t looking for trouble – new single ‘Security’ is a terrific noisy blast of rock’n’roll goodness, plus album news
Clearing out the cobwebs in the brain cavity with a thoroughly eviscerating blast of pure Aussie pub punk rock, Amyl and the Sniffers‘ new single ‘Security’ is a romping foot-stomping cathartic delight. Filled with the ineffable charms of lead singer Amy Taylor, the raucous delivery is audacious and deliciously sneering over the top of an …
News: UK/NZ punk stalwarts Desperate Measures to release new mini-album ‘Rinsed’ on September 3rd.
Desperate Measures, the London/New Zealand punk-rock four-piece, release their new mini-album ‘Rinsed’ through Easy Action Records on September 3rd, featuring the new line-up of founding member Eugene Butcher, Gaff (ex-Glitterati and current Rich Ragany and the Digressions guitarist), bassist Ricky McGuire (U.K. Subs & The Men They Couldn’t Hang), and former K-Line and Done Lying …
Track: Toronto’s Bad Waitress share a second taste of their debut album due September, hear rambunctious new single ‘Delusions of Grandeur’
Gritty, Toronto punk rock four-piece Bad Waitress have shared the second single from their riotous debut album, No Taste, out September 3rd via Royal Mountain Records. Delusions of Grandeur is as rambunctious as it is energetic and follows the release of last month’s first single Strawberry Milkshake. The band explains, “When the wrong people get …
Track: One Step Closer – Pringle Street
Hardcore band One Step Closer have announced their debut album, ‘This Place You Know’, due 24th September via Run For Cover Records. To celebrate the news the band have shared the track ‘Pringle Street’. A riotous clash of guitars, drums and a vocal thats chock full of emotion. The track whips through heavy screaming verses to huge emotive choruses …
Track: Chaser – Good Times
Chaser have shared their new video for the track ‘Good Times’ taken off their new album ‘Dreamers’ via Thousand Islands Records, Sound Speed Records, SBAM Records & Pee Records Chaser bassist/vocalist Jesse Stopnitzky says, “Good Times takes you through the highs and lows of life with the understanding that nothing lasts forever; the good or the bad. As …