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Track: Octopus Montage – A Shortcut (To The Unconscious Mind)
Octopus Montage unleash a beast of a new single – ‘A Shortcut (To The Unconscious Mind) taken from their forthcoming album ‘How To Live And How To Lose’ Written based on past experiences, vocalist Alex Jennings expresses the difficulty of enduring the issues ‘so tell me how do I lie to make myself feel better on the …
SEE: Dope Body – ‘Known Unknown’: gloriously messy highlight from ‘Crack A Light’ gets visuals
NEED a big, dirty, cathartic winter lift? No need to dial. Doctor Dope Body has just the prescription for you. They’ve pulled what’s arguably the standout track from their most recent album, Crack A Light, “Known Unknown” – and given it some righteous visuals. The track? It’s the album closer, a brilliant distorted space-disco-punk-noise rattle: …
Track: Nopes announce new album ‘Djörk’ and premiere first single ‘Pocket Square Motherfucker’
Nopes have premiered the track ‘Pocket Square Motherfucker’, which is taken from the US noise punks’ forthcoming album “Djörk” that has been slated for release on January 29, 2021 via Magnetic Eye Records. Nopes comment on ‘Pocket Square Motherfucker’: “We usually start our records with something a little more poppy and accessible, but wanted to start this one off …
Track: The Vibrators and Chris Spedding – Mars Casino
Punk rock icons The Vibrators reunite with guitar slinging legend Chris Spedding for a brand new album of real vintage punk rock that will take you back to 1976 when this pair released their first collaboration. First taste comes in the form of title track – Mars Casino via Cleopatra Records. Steady drumming and big …
PREMIERE: Disco Zombies – ‘Drums Over London’: see the video for a track from Optic Nerve’s forthcoming deluxe punk reissue
YOU’VE got to applaud Optic Nerve; the Preston label that reissues some of the most excellent lost cult classics of British punk and indie culture (am I alone in finding my jaw drop involuntarily when I found you could buy a new pressing of, say, The Loft’s “Up The Hill And The Down The Slope” …
Album Review: The Cribs – ‘Night Network’: their best yet?
Replete with unparalleled displays of riff-age. Riddled with lyrical honesty. An uncompromising garage-punk production. Each of The Cribs’ releases has honed these and other facets with increasing skill and, as preceding albums have progressively done, Night Network embellishes The Cribs’ sound with the brothers’ continuously developing songwriting and influences, while still retaining that indelible and …
ALBUM REVIEW: Dope Body – ‘Crack A Light’: shriekin’ and howlin’ at the altar
Crack A Light really won’t disappoint if you like guitars that shriek and howl in hardcore-stoner distress. A righteous noise purging
EP REVIEW: Fever 333 – ‘Wrong Generation’
FOLLOWING last year’s highly revered album Strength in Numb333rs, it was inevitable that that would not be the last we’d hear from Fever 333. Unfortunately, their new EP, Wrong Generation (released on October 23rd via Roadrunner Records) was born from a situation which should never be happening in our day and age. It comes following …
TRACK: Dope Body – ‘Mutant Being’: they’re ready to hurt those guitars, bwoy
BALTIMORE’S Dope Body are so back; they’re so ready for this and they need to make their guitars howwwwl. They’ve dropped anudda new track to usher you towards the noise explosion of their comeback LP, Crack A Light, which is only three weeks away now … T minus … “Mutant Being”, the beast in question, …
News: Bowling For Soup Announce 2021 UK Tour With Lit And The Dollyrots
Bowling For Soup are returning to the UK in 2021 with hope of some fun in the sun! The Texan crown princes of pop punk will be jetting back to their home away from home to embark on their first ever UK tour completely focused on seaside towns. The tour will begin in the very grand …