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Album Review: The Fall – The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country On The Click) 20th anniversary reissue

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Album Review: Suburban Studs – Slam 2 CD Set On Cherry Red Records

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Album Review: Chelsea – The Step-Forward Years 1977-82 4CD Box Set

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Parallel Lights are a powerful pop punk outfit who bring their own unique take on to what is essentially a genre that has its biggest routes in the good old U.S of A, a quartet that consist of, Jamie Morrow (Vocals, Guitar) Paul Newling (Vocals, Bass) and Shane Steven (Drums). The trio formed in the Summer …

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It has been 4 years years since Baltimore’s 21st century-style Stooges – ‘Dope Body’ decided to call it quits and head their separate ways. They weren’t apart for long before they got back together and released on to the world an isolation-times mixtape. ‘Home Body’ is the result released May 1st via Drag City. It’s …

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This Perth Australia based five piece Garage Punk band who have featured previously, now release this latest video for a song taken from their recently aired album “Scale Model Subsistence Vendor” The video takes on a phenomena that in these dark times is even more prevalent than before, an eye into the a world of …

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Horror In Clay return with another track from their recording sessions with Aonghas Jones in the form of ‘Burnt Hands’ via Muzai Records. ‘Burnt Hands’ is another testament to the sheer antagonistic nature of Horror In Clay’s music. It’s utterly beautiful in all its piss-and-vinegar, macabre glory.Its crashing drums and sludgy awkward guitars with thick bass …

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Last year, Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. released what what I considered to be one of the best albums of the year, if not decade, with ‘Dogrel’. All the more incredible considering it was their debut album. 2019 began with them playing small venues around the UK (see my review of their April 2019 Manchester gig) and …

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Dave Greenfield was keyboard player in The Stranglers, frontrunners in the Punk movement. In a genre where lack of musicality was sometimes seen as a badge of honour, his virtuosity stood out from the very beginning, giving the band a sound that set them apart from their contemporaries. Often compared to Ray Manzarek from The …

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The San Francisco Bay Area trio Destroy Boys have released their latest single “Honey I’m Home”  The song is about feeling trapped.  Even if your body is physically free, if something has control over you, that control follows you wherever you go, and you always end up returning to it. “It was written at a …

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Berlin’s Pabst have shared the video for brand-new single Hell, a song that openly confronts the darker emotions within one’s self. Drummer Tore Knipping explains: “The song Hell is about the darker feelings inside of you, them returning once in a while and sucking you into a hole. It sounds feasible; enlightenment can sometimes only be found …

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As part fo their 25 year celebration Bowling For Soup have released their latest cover track, ‘When The Angels Sing’ from revered So-Cal legends Social Distortion. Explaining their take on the song, frontman Jaret Reddick states, “July 2019, we began trying to release a cover song each month. That became a more difficult task than …

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Due for release on Epitaph Records May 8th, this debut album seems to have been on everybody’s radar since the the sharing of two teasing little snippets were unleashed, one early this year the sublime “Brick” and the other very recently in the form of the brilliant “First Everlasting” So getting to give this the …

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