You could drop Diggle on any stage anywhere and he’d give it everything. Stranglers fans know the songs and respond to his drive to play them, which he only interrupts for a pull on his pint of champagne.
For the next hour and 40 minutes, from a trenchant, totemic, 'Toiler On The Sea' to traditional closer 'No More Heroes', The Stranglers are kings of the castle, honed Continue Reading
US Riot Grrrl pioneers Bikini Kill and UK Black Feminist Sistah Punks Big Joanie hit the Netherlands on their 2024 European tour..Continue Reading
Proving that they are no one shot wonders, UltraBomb (Greg Norton of Hüsker Dü, Finny McConnell of The Mahones and Jamie Oliver ex UK Subs) headed straight to the recording studio last December, hot off the back of a highly successful debut UK tour, to record their second album 'Dying To Smile' over just 3 days!
An album filled to the brim with punchy Punk songs, Continue Reading
Portsmouth based Post-Punk/Goth band Torpedoes have just released their fourth album ‘Heaven’s Light Our Guide’. In this magnum opus, principal songwriter Ray (Razor) Fagan (Ex Red Letter Day) gives his take on the world we must all inhabit whether we like it or not, across 20 tracks.
With 'Heaven’s Light Our Guide' Torpedoes have created a poetic body of work that nods Continue Reading
Legendary British punk band UK Subs played Amsterdam's Melkweg two days after frontman Charlie Harper's recent 80th Birthday! Just as in Utrecht in 2023, pop punks Nasty Rumours from Switzerland opened for the Subs. They played their melodic songs fast and enthusiastically! The UK Subs sounded even better than during their 2023 shows in Utrecht, Eindhoven,
Drachten and at Continue Reading
Today, Bay Area Punk legends Rancid have released their debut self-titled EP on streaming services for the first time ever. Exclusively released on 7-inch vinyl back in 1992 on Lookout! Records, the inaugural 'Rancid' EP is the band's seminal five-track induction to punk rock that set the tone for a prolific and subversive thirty-plus year run.
The 'Rancid' EP’s gruff Continue Reading
Ska-Punk sensations The Interrupters have teamed up with Ukrainian sisters Olga & Vira "MadTwins" Ishchuk to share an animated video for the track 'Alien' from their fourth studio album ‘In The Wild’. Mad Twins created the 'Alien' video based on a plot invented by Aimee Interrupter. They say: “The song 'Alien' spoke to us strongly because we know what it is like to be an Continue Reading
The time has come … for the story of Midnight Oil. Relive their journey as this “contrary bunch of bastards” blazes a trail like no other rock’n’roll band.
Legendary music and activism are front and centre in this exciting documentary, created with unfettered access to seminal Australian rock band Midnight Oil, who emerged from politically charged 1970s Sydney to become Continue Reading
Melbourne Pub/Punk rockers Amyl and the Sniffers make a triumphant return with their first new music in over three years - new single 'U Should Not Be Doing That' with B-side 'Facts'.
The band’s frontwoman Amy Taylor says: “Lyrically both tracks are pretty self-explanatory. ‘U Should Not Be Doing That’ makes me laugh, but it’s also in a way poking fun at the shock that Continue Reading
On 11 May, the Resistor venue in Leiden, the Netherlands, hosted a concert by one band from China, and one band from Belgium. Resistor is a DIY place, often attracting enthusiastic audiences to punk gigs.
Dummy Toys play fast, raw, punk with lyrics about subjects like environmental destruction, freedom and domestic violence. Support band Unwanted Tattoo sounded a bit like Continue Reading