Hailing from Brisbane, Australia modern day riot grrls Blussh has release new single Better Than ThisContinue Reading
Riot Fest, 2020 like every other major live event in the World has been postponed until next year – thank, of course, to the Covid-19 global pandemic. The good news however is that the Chicago based Riot Fest returns in 2021 (September 17th-19th) with a mega line up. My Chemical Romance, Smashing Pumpkins, Run the […]Continue Reading
For more than four decades British journalist, musician, filmmaker and professor, Vivien Goldman, has been front and centre in the world of punk music. Now living in Jamaica and nearing her 70s, Vivien is showing no signs of stopping! Defining the rise of punk can be a colourful conversation. Punk has always been a platform […]Continue Reading
Up-Cycled Punk T-Shirts & Customised nursing clothes that don’t suck! The ‘do-it-yourself’ attitude has always been firmly ingrained in the psyche of the punk mindset. Don’t wait for it to happen. Don’t rely on anyone else to do it for you. Just do it yourself! It was that perspective, combined with compassion, determination, a core […]Continue Reading
Way back in the mid-70s, an exciting new trend crawled its way off the streets and into our living rooms. It was grimy, intense, raw, and loud. Unfiltered and unaffected by all of the usual restrictions of the music industry – it was punk, the start of something completely new. Like many cultural movements, the […]Continue Reading
The DJ and musician, 64, on being black and British, finding a scene, and why punk’s not dead Jamaican people love country and western. My first musical memory is sitting at home with my dad, listening to incarnations of what would become reggae on his sound system. But as well as Prince Buster, and Toots and the Maytals, my […]Continue Reading
FEATURED ARTIST The Location: South East London/ Essex The Line up: Georgia South, Amy Love The Sound: Kick Ass Urban Grime Punk The Comparison: Ho99o9, Skunk Anansie. The Nova Twins want to bring punk to a new audience, a new generation. The music may have evolved, the message may be slightly different but the attitude remains steadfast […]Continue Reading
Nine years since her death, Poly Styrene remains hugely influential. Her daughter, Celeste Bell, reflects on learning ‘the family business’, how fame nearly broke her mother – and why she’s making a film of her life. “Even when I was really young, I knew what my mum did for a living. She was always working […]Continue Reading
When guitarist Phil Demmell (Vio-lence, ex-Machine Head), bassistMatt Freeman (Rancid), drummer Dave Lombardo (Suicidal Tendencies, Misfits, Dead Cross, ex-Slayer) join with vocalist Steve "Zetro" Souza (Exodus) to recorded a Dead Kennedys cover, you listen. Continue Reading
Punk is synonymous with radical change and it's no surprise bands are coming forward with emotionally charged covers of some old school classics. Hardcore punk supergroup Dead Cross are the latest with a brilliant cover of Black Flag's Rise Above.Continue Reading
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