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Album review: Dead Star Boys return with album #2 – ‘Rats’

By Ruth Rae
Hailing from Medway, Kent, UK, Dead Star Boys bring their own twist to punk and post-punk. Their second album 'Rats' is scheduled for release on Monday 13th April, just 8 months after their  self-titled debut. 'Rats' showcases Dead Star Boys' talent for phenomenal blasts to the ears of the grooviest and catchiest rock’n’roll! It's wild, it's writhing with earworms, and Continue Reading
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Exclusive – video premiere of Gypsy Pistoleros’ new single ‘King of Almost Everything’

By Ruth Rae
The third single from Gypsy Pistoleros' forthcoming new album, 'Dark Faerie Tales', 'King of Almost Everything' arrives with a brand-new video. A savage, cinematic takedown of false idols, hollow power, and blind devotion - “Almost everything… is still almost nothing.” Dark. Defiant. Unapologetically confrontational. This is Gypsy Pistoleros at their most dangerous - Continue Reading
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Album review – the hard rocking debut by Monkeys Blood – ‘Anthropoid’

By Ruth Rae
What do you get when three lads from several top Northeast English punk bands get together? A new, even wilder punk group named after a popular ice cream topping from their youth! Monkeys Blood are: Peesh (LoGoZ/Junkster/Cherry & Peesh) - guitar and vocals, Denni (The Undaclass/The Unnamed/All Out Attack) - bass and Iain (Slalom D) - drums. Monkeys Blood have gone down a Continue Reading
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Lenny Kaye’s Nuggets ‘Live At The BBC’ RSD 10” release – plus exclusive London listening party!

By Ruth Rae
To coincide with two sold-out shows at London’s iconic 100 Club, Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group, original Nuggets compiler), alongside Joe De Lorenzo (former The Damned tour manager), who co-promoted the London shows, assembled an all-star Nuggets Band and headed to BBC Maida Vale Studios to record a session for Marc Riley & Gideon Coe on BBC 6 Music. That electrifying Continue Reading
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Album review: Devon street-punks Riot City Radio are ‘Spitting Teeth’

By Ruth Rae
Plymouth, UK street-punk crew Riot City Radio released their sophomore album 'Spitting Teeth' on 27th March 2026 through Sunny Bastards Records. Sonically, Riot City Radio occupy that sweet spot between the melodic crunch of 'Wolves'-era Rancid and the defiantly working class camaraderie of Booze And Glory. And with a staunch anti-fascist slant, the band are determined to Continue Reading
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Exclusive – The video premiere of SOLO 1981’s ‘Saturday night’!

By Ruth Rae
The solo project of Stefano Giambastiani - vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and frontman of Acid Brains - SOLO 1981 has, since 2014, carved out a distinct space blending electronic textures, alternative rock energy and post-punk atmospheres. Double single 'Saturday Night / Crazy Man' will be released on March 20th via Karma Field Records and Wanikya Records. These tracks Continue Reading
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EP review: Black Water County’s impassioned, fiery folk-punk – ‘Second Best’

By Ruth Rae
'Second Best' is formed of songs that didn’t quite make the cut for other releases and were put back into folk-punks Black Water County's back-burner, and are now ready to land on fresh ears; a reminder that things can go full circle. Celebrating collective defiance and solidarity in the face of inequality and concentrated power, 'Second Best' offers a much-needed Continue Reading
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Live review: Drunktank, Tape It Shut, Reason To Leave and Launch Control at The Butler, Reading 8/3/2026

By Ruth Rae
How about a quiet Sunday afternoon in the English town of Reading? Nah!! Top local promoters Shadow Promotions DIY are putting on four punk bands for our entertainment at The Butler - and it's gonna be LOUD. Headliners Drunktank are over from The Netherlands on their 'Devastatour', and on their final date today they're joined by local punks Launch Control and Tape It Shut, Continue Reading