punk/post-punk
Live Review: Tramlines 2015: Main Stage – 24.7.15 including Charlatans gallery
Tramlines 2015 style kicked off on Friday 24th July this year, and we took a stroll down to the new Main Stage, now situated in Ponderosa Park, a little out of the centre and away from its home of the last six years, Devonshire Green. As it was, the ten minute stroll from the city …
See: The Garden release “All Smiles Over Here :)” + album and tour dates
The Garden are all set to unleash more of their ‘vada vada’ on the world. October 9th see’s the Orange County thrift store pin-up punks release their first album proper, ‘Haha’ via Epitaph/Burger Records. In support of the release, the Shears twins will also be taking to the road for 23 date European tour. The Garden …
Live Review: The Tubes – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 12.8.2015
Once upon a time The Tubes took their brand of rock theatrics out to stadiums but now on their 40th birthday tour they are still delivering the goods albeit in much smaller venues. In truth they are an old school rock band who somehow got caught up in New Wave, but who cares when you …
Album Review: Sextile – A Thousand Hands
It’s dark outside; so grab your sunglasses, ‘cos we’re going deep under the wires into the world of Sextile and their rather wonderful debut album ‘A Thousand Hands’. Like many of you, I’ve been a follower / collector / fanatic – call it what you will – of what could broadly be called alternative music …
Album Review: Seluah – Phase III
Seluah’s sophomore album Phase III is one that’ll snake around your brain as you sink into its layered sprawling mass of sound. Advertising itself as a psychedelic/noir album, Phase III often restrains itself from the outrageous twists and turns psych music can take. Instead it seems to grasp on to post-punk sensibilities, as demonstrated by …
Meet: Punk legend Hugh Cornwell interview
No More Heroes, Golden Brown and Peaches are just some of the 20 odd hits singles Hugh Cornwell had a hand in penning before he left punk legends The Stranglers in 1990. Over the last two decades he has recorded 11 solo albums that have never had the commercial success he enjoyed with the band, …
News: State Champs Announce New Album ‘Around The World And Back’
New York pop punk quintet State Champs have revealed details of their sophomore full length album Around The World And Back due for release on 16th October via Pure Noise Records. Their first album The Finer Things debuted at number 131 on the Billboard Top 200, but with a recent string of dates supporting pop …
See: PiL release video for ‘Double Trouble’
Looks like Johnny’s been getting nagged at by the missus… ‘Double Trouble’ is the opening track from PiL’s 10th studio album ‘What The World Needs Now…’, which is released on 4th September on the band’s own label PiL Official. Backed with ‘Bettie Page’, “an homage to the late ‘Queen of the Pin-Ups” and ‘Turkey Tits’. The 10″ …
Album Review: The Rubs – The Rubs Are Trash
If, after you’ve listened to Hard Enough, the opening track on Chicago Garage Rockers The Rubs (essentially the solo project of a certain Joey Rubbish, in that he sings, writes all the songs and plays all the instruments on the record), then you’re a better person than I. Surrounding himself with Chicago’s finest DIY Garage …
Live Review: SWANS at The Reflektor, Liège 19.05.2015
I’ll admit, my only knowledge of SWANS is that of a friend playing them back in the eighties; an album with a dollar sign on the sleeve (‘Greed’ 1986). My frazzled memory lumped them in with that ‘Butthole Surfers’/’Big Black’ school of American nut-job noise, with a side-serving of Psychick TV cultism. Now, almost thirty …