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News: Rotterdam Post-Punks Tramhaus Release Debut Album ‘The First Exit’ Out Now Via Subroutine Records
Rotterdam Post-Punks Tramhaus share long-awaited debut album – ‘The First Exit’ – via Dutch independent label Subroutine Records. Clocking in at just over 30 minutes, ‘The First Exit’ delivers a 9-song blast of coruscating punk-rock thrills; fierce, but patently danceable, the music of Tramhaus feels like a soundtrack to a vivacious, mysterious, and dangerous story. There is no room …
News: Bearings Announce Deluxe Version Of Their Record ‘The Best Part About Being Human’
Bearings have announced a deluxe version of their record ‘The Best Part About Being Human’ via Pure Noise Records. Produced by Sam Guaiana (Silverstein, Between You & Me). The record will feature three new songs and three re-imagined. On the lead single, the band says “Stormy Weather is about being exhausted by your situation but fighting through it. A bad period of …
News: Rebellion Festival 2024 Returns 1st-4th August At The Winter Gardens In Blackpool
Returning this summer over four days from the 1st to the 4th of August at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, Rebellion Festival has once again pulled together a line-up that runs the full length and breadth of worldwide alternative and punk rock culture. From the four iconic, genre-defining headline artists of The Stranglers, Sham 69, …
News: Post Punk Pioneers Xmal Deutschland Release Album ‘Early Singles (1981-1982)’ And Front Woman Anja Huwe Releases Debut Solo Album ‘Codes’ Both Out 8th March Via Sacred Bones
“Gothics”—a time before the word goth had even taken shape—believed in the do-it-yourself punk ethos that anyone could pick up an instrument. This, alongside the bric-a-brac fashion of Adam Ant and the long-winded atmospheric malaise of Bauhaus’ 1979 single, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” gray clouds were starting to form. And in the unlikely city of Hamburg, a brazen …
News: Queercore Punk Band Shooting Daggers Announce Debut Album ‘Love And Rage’ & UK Tour With Spaced
Sal, Bea and Raquel aka Shooting Daggers, are without a doubt burning it up at the moment. Since releasing their EP ‘Athames’ last year and most recently a split single with Ukrainian punk band Death Pill, the whispers are getting louder. Since then things have been pretty much upwards, non – stop, and Daggers are …
News: Shelf Lives Announce Debut Headline EU Tour For March 2024
London electro punk duo Shelf Lives have announced their first European headline tour today, extending their upcoming UK run onto the continent for March 2024. The announcement follows a remarkable year, performing at major festivals like Glastonbury, Liverpool Sound City, The Great Escape, Shambala, and more. Their headline London show was a sell-out success, complemented by landing the Introducing Track of the …
News: Shooting Daggers share video for ‘Not My Rival’; Split single with Death Pill out now
New Heavy Sounds recently announced a very very special team up between their favourite punk sisters, Shooting Daggers and Death Pill. Both bands have recorded a brand new song, and what better way is there to present them (or any kind of punk) than a good old split single. Released on 17th November, queercore punk …
News: Shelf Lives have unveiled their blistering new EP ‘You Okay?’ Listen To New Single ‘Kids’
London’s most electrifying duo deliver a project packed with fizzing tracks of riotous electro-punk, sounding as extroverted as ever and finding a way to portray a world on the brink with a uniquely entertaining touch. The pounding new single ‘KIDS‘ immediately locks listeners into a trance, after an attention-grabbing EP opener ‘All Grown Up‘, which flows into frenzied single and BBC Radio …
News: Women In Revolt! Underground Rebellion In British Music 1977-1985 – 14 Track Compilation Featuring Slits, The Raincoats, Chris & Cosey, Ludus, X-Ray Spex And More
Women in Revolt! (Underground Rebellion in British Music – 1977-1985) is a brand new 14-track compilation, set for release on Music For Nations on 3 November 2023 on neon yellow vinyl and digitally. The album, which compiles tracks from some of the most trailblazing – and often unsung – women working in UK music between 1977-1985, channels a passion and …
News: The Professionals announce extensive UK tour, and double vinyl repress of ’What in the World’ and ‘SNAFU’
The Professionals, the outfit formed by Paul Cook and Steve Jones out of the ashes of the Sex Pistols, have announced a bunch of UK dates as part of their Back and Better Tour 2023. Still led from his drum chair by Cook, he’s joined by Jones’ long term replacement Tom Spencer, alongside Dean Croney …