New Single and EP releases from MEGG - 'The End', Hi Fi Spitfires - '3 Volt Love', The Dreaded Laramie - 'Agency', Ill Gotten Gains - 'Odes To The Troublemakers', SLICERRR - 'SLICERRR' and Reconciler - 'Three Songs'.Continue Reading
The 035 Popprijs competition final took place on 28th February at the Vorstin venue, Hilversum, featuring four bands; Clitteband, Crashing, Lisa Rose, and bloc bloc bloc. Young punks Clitteband from Hilversum, the Netherlands, beat three non-punk bands to win in the final round!Continue Reading
As the popular Undercover Festival (now in its 13th year) makes its debut at Battlesbridge, South Essex on 26th & 27th September, promoter and organiser Mick Moriarty decided to make young local bands the focus of the event. Dharma Hounds, Destroy The Idols, Rat Hole, Monumental and Hinge will take to the stage with a great line-up including Skids, Eddie & The Hot Rods, Continue Reading
Single, EP and Album releases from The Pighounds - Tutti Frutti', State Power - 'Final Hour', Launch Control - 'Hedge Fundamentalism', Killing Daisies - 'Echoes of Tomorrow', Hearts Apart - 'Summer Bummer' and Twat Union - 'Singer Of The Band'.Continue Reading
Punk legend TV Smith may just be one man with an acoustic guitar, but the founder of The Adverts can still fill a room with sound, as evidenced during his first gig at The Face Bar, Reading on 20.02.2025 - what an outstanding show! Tim is a brilliant singer songwriter, and through his vast collection of material, he makes very valid points about how messed up the world we Continue Reading
Mouser, four veteran punks, release new songs on the fascist threat, mobile phones, refugees and forced labour in prisons in their debut EP '¡No Pasarán!'. They say they write fast, to the point, catchy, sharp, sometimes very short songs, with uncompromising lyrics which expose our derailed society.Continue Reading
Isn’t rock n’ roll supposed to be a young person’s game? Then how come so many of the old guard are doing such a great job of breathing new life into the genre? A case in point: Sheffield rockers Black Spiders, who are about to unleash a beast of a fifth album in ‘Cvrses’, and who only seem to have become ever leaner, meaner and hungrier since forming back in 2008.Continue Reading
There’s one glaring omission on ‘Here To Destroy’; namely that, unlike a Split Dogs gig, it comes without vocalist Harry Atkins’ utterly magnetic stage presence. Seriously, of all punk rock vocalists currently doing the rounds, they take the crown - for somehow managing to keep up such gloriously frenzied, bug-eyed, confrontational performances night after night. Suffice Continue Reading
Single, EP and Album releases from Eville - 'Plaything', SPY - 'Seen Enough', Silverstein - 'Antibloom', Punchcard - 'Soap Box Hero', Real Sickies - 'Triage' and Lazy Class - 'City That Once Died'Continue Reading
It was my first visit to the fantastic Albert Hall in Manchester and what a gem it is. Proving to be the perfect backdrop for a mix of 60s-inspired rock and modern psychedelia from The Brian Jonestown Massacre (BJM), whose name combines a tribute to Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones and a reference to the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, supported by the Swedish band, Les Big Continue Reading
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