punk/post-punk tracks
Track: Hot Snakes – Six Wave Hold-Down, plus first new album in 14 years news
It’s been a LONG time, but finally Hot Snakes, aka Swami John Reis and Rick Froberg have reconvened, and for good reason too, by the sound of it…“I considered stopping playing guitar on a social media poll after I completely mastered the instrument,” Reis says. “But so many people kept sending me letters and voicemail …
Track: Sextile – Current affair
It’s been a while but Sextile have released the first new music since July last years Albeit Living, in the shape of a new single, Current Affair. It comes from ahead of ther bands first ever UK tour which starts this week. It features guest vocals from actress and friend of the and Sienna Scarritt, …
Track: Meat Wave – Shame / Dogs At Night, plus European Tour Dates
On the back of their new album, the Incessant, Chicago indie punks Meat Wave have released a single Shame / Dogs at Night, both new non-album tracks which were recorded during the album sessions with legendary Chicago Engineer Steve Albini. Dogs at night previously appeared as part of last years Our First 100 Days Project, …
Video: Harker release video for single ‘Plague your heart’ ahead of album release
Brighton power pop punks Harker are on the cusp of releasing their debut album ‘No Discordance’, on February 9th, via a host of labels including Disconnect, Disconnect & Future Void in the UK, Shield Recordings and Fond of Life in Europe, Wiretap in the USA and Fixing A Hole in Japan. Taken from it is …
Track: Frigs – Talking Pictures
Toronto post-punk four-piece Frigs their debut full-length album, Basic Behaviour is going to drop on 23rd February via Arts & Crafts. Ahead of that, the band have shared a track, Talking Pictures. Talking about the track, “‘Talking Pictures’ was a turning point in the development of Basic Behaviour. There was a starkness to it that …
See: Seaway release new video for London, plus UK tour dates
Canadian quintet Seaway have today released a video for ‘London’, taken from their excellent new album ‘Vacation’ which was released via Pure Noise Records. It comes ahead of the band arriving on these shores for a headline UK tour, and the song is a infectious, joyous slab of pop punk, with just enough angst in …
Track: Sorry Escalator – Generation Winter / Street Corner Absurdity
Out now on Imagination Engine Records, the Leeds label specialising in limited Cassette releases, comes a two track EP from Middlesbrough quartet Sorry Escalator. Opener Generation Winter is this brooding, almost menacing slice of alt rock. Built on this edgy post punk verse, it flowers into something more straightforward and melodic as it hits the …
Track: Lee Bains III + The Glory Fires – Underneath the sheets of white noise
Underneath the sheets of White Noise is the latest track to be taken from the new album from Lee Bain III + The Glory Fires, Youth Detention which drops on June 30th via Don Giovanni Records. Based on Bains’ real life upbringing in Birmingham, Alabama where he witness racism and white radicaization at first hand, …
Track: Dead Naked Hippies – Drain You
Taken from the upcoming Dance To The Radio Records 4×12” Compilation, Drain You is the new single from Leeds trash punks (their own description) Dead Naked Hippies. Of the track, the bands Lucy Jowett explains “‘Drain You’ is a ‘fuck you’ to the voice that says you can’t….Don’t be a bystander, be strong minded and …
New Music: Loom – Hate
Taking their lead from the likes of The Jesus Lizard, Bad Brains, Pixies, GG Allin, Misfits, and Warsaw – all of whom they covered on an early Cassette EP, Leamington Spa’s Loom make dark aggressive music that flits between goth, punk and grunge. Having garnered support from the likes of Zane Lowe and Daniel P …