punk/post-punk
Premiere: Evil Blizzard release new video for ‘Fast Forward Rewind’
Preston five piece Evil Blizzard return with their first material in two years, a single called ‘Fast Forward Rewind’, out on February 12th via their own newly founded ‘Crackedankles Records’. It’s taken from their forthcoming ‘The Worst Show On Earth’ (named after a live review), due out in June, and is available a strictly limited …
Album : Starcrawler – Starcrawler
Exploding out of Rough Trade Records is the debut album from Starcrawler. A four piece from LA formed when vocalist Arrow De Wilde met guitarist Henri Cash in 2015 (and then met up with rhythm section Austin Smith and Tim Franco). Not content with releasing the catchiest song ever written about Ants, the band have …
Track: Cabbage – Arms of Pleonexia, plus debut album news
Mossley quintet Cabbage have just announced their debut album, called Nihilistic Glamour Shots, will drop on March 30th via Infectious Music, produced by James Skelly and Rich Turvey at Parr Street Studios. It’ll mark the culmination of a frenetic 24 month period which has seen Cabbage release five EPs, 36 singles and play well over …
Soundtrack of our lives: The Fall – Album Definitive Quagmire. In memory of Mark E Smith
I don’t really know why I’m a fan of Mark E Smith and The Fall. Is it the uanabashed Northernness? Is it the mastery of prose? or maybe the fact that he never forgot his roots? I don’t know, but what I do know is that for whatever reason once I’d entered the Wonderful and Frightening …
Track: The Damned – Standing on the edge of tomorrow, plus new album news
“It’s supposed to be very optimistic, even though it’s about a dark subject,” states legendary punk overlords The Damned frontman Dave Vanian, talking about the bands new single, Standing on the edge of tomorrow. “As an artist, you can’t help but reflect the times, because that’s what art does. I think we always do it, …
News: Stiff Little Fingers Announce 12-date Spring/Summer UK tour
Stiff Little Fingers are set to embark on a 12-date headline tour in March of 2018 with special guests Ruts DC. The band will also be playing 3 large outdoor summer shows with a rotating bill including The Selecter, The Beat and Buzzcocks. Stiff Little Fingers live shows are always special events. None is more …
Track: Check Out The Soft Moon’s New Single “Choke”, plus album news
On February 2nd, Luis Vasquez, AKA The Soft Moon, will be releasing his debut record for Sacred Bones titled Criminal, which follows 2015s excellent Deeper. With just a little less than two weeks before the album’s release, Vasquez has released new single “Choke”. Check it out below: According to Vasquez, I created ‘Choke’ as a …
News: Pop Punk Pile Up Festival (Selby) reveals 2018 line up incl. Room 94
2018 welcomes a brand new festival, POP PUNK PILE UP FESTIVAL that will take place at The Venue in Selby from the 27th – 29th April 2018. Riff Media has been running successful events all over the country for a decade and 2018 sees them branching out into the festival circuit. 2017 was a huge …
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, …