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From Thursday 09 January 2014

Big Ups – ‘Eighteen Hours Of Static’

With the likes of Gnarwolves and Moose Blood leading the UK into a new era of punk for 2014, Brooklyn based Big Ups are next up to bring a dose of distorted, angst-filled anthems to fresh ears. ‘Eighteen Hours of Static’ hits you like a punch in the face,

Wednesday 08 January 2014

Against Me! – ‘Transgender Dysphoria Blues’

To call Against Me!’s ‘Transgender Dysphoria Blues’ anticipated would be a hefty understatement. To call it the follow up to one of the greatest rock albums of the last decade would be disputed, but we’re happy to go ahead and call it just that. While the scene perhaps

Monday 06 January 2014

Canterbury – ‘Dark Days’

Surrey based melodic rockers Canterbury have come a long way since their 2009 debut full-length ‘Thank You’. What started as reasonably straightforward pop-rock saw itself remodelled by layers of expansive, and often ominous, soundscapes which up until now had culminated in the criminally underrated ‘Heavy In The Day’.

Sunday 22 December 2013

World’s Scariest Police Chases – ‘NOFX and Out Come the Wolves Dookie’

You have to hand it to World’s Scariest Police Chases. ‘NOFX and Out Come the Wolves Dookie’ is simultaneously terrible and excellent as an album title, and it does tell you most things that you need to know about the band. Not because they even sound that much like

Tuesday 10 December 2013

Black Flag – ‘What The…’

Let’s be honest. Trying to get heads around the Black Flag/Flag thing was difficult enough without bringing new material from one of them into it, and with the departure of vocalist Ron Reyes from the current “Black Flag” incarnation following the release of ‘What The…’, you really do have

Sunday 08 December 2013

Cold Crows Dead – ‘I Fear A New World’

There are few records that sound anything like ‘I Fear A New World’. At a push, the closest might come from frontman Murray Macleod’s more widely recognised self-defined distorted pop outfit The Xcerts. There are Cold Crows Dead moments which continue along the same route, however the

Saturday 07 December 2013

Bars Of Gold – ‘Wheels’

Somehow, SOMEHOW, this review hadn’t got to the site before it did. For that we are very sorry, as what Bars Of Gold have put together here is something that can only be described as fucking amazing. ‘Wheels’ follows on from 2010’s ‘Of Gold’ (

Thursday 05 December 2013

Less Than Jake – ‘See The Light’

You know what…we get it. Ska sucks. It’s never been particularly cool, it’s associated with some terrible fashion trends, and there were far too many bands doing it poorly. However replace the word ska with any other genre of music and the same pretty much applies. Music is rife

Monday 02 December 2013

Iron Chic – ‘The Constant One’

Rule one of punk rock club is probably written down somewhere as “you must like Iron Chic”. Not just because they’re totally playing at Fest next year (probably), but also because they just happen to be one of the best punk bands on the planet right now. It gets little

Thursday 28 November 2013

A Wilhelm Scream – ‘Partycrasher’

The last time A Wilhelm Scream released an album it was 2007. To put that into context, 2007 is pre Obama, pre iPhone and pre Fall Out Boy hiatus. In the six years since hardcore has been killed and saved multiple times over by bands who both rose