Loathe: “We’re in the midst of the best stuff we’ve ever written.”

GUEST PLAYLIST: Steal The City

Real Friends – ‘Composure’

Pop punk regularly gets a bad rap from alternative music purists, mostly because it’s often aimed at a younger audience and therefore seen as a lesser medium. Every so often, though, a band releases a record of such undeniably high quality that the gatekeepers have no choice but to

Century Thirteen – ‘Century Thirteen’

In making their self-titled LP Glaswegian punks Century Thirteen went against their previous conventional wisdom and enlisted the help of a producer. The decision to move away from self-recording was said to have been taken to provide an extra sense of freedom in both arrangements and performance.

Premiere of You Know The Drill’s ‘Blossom’

Here is an exclusive premiere of You Know The Drill’s new track ‘Blossom’ which is taken from their latest release ‘Selfhood’  which is out now via Scylla Records. The band explain that “Blossom is definitely the most mellow and chilled out song we’ve ever written, and as such we wanted the

Modern Life Is War, Svalbard, Swain @ The Underworld, London

LIVE: Modern Life Is War / Svalbard / Swain / Who Cares? @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

Trust Modern Life Is War, one of the darkest, moodiest bands in hardcore, to arrive in the UK smack-bang in the middle of a seemingly endless heatwave. The beer garden at the front of the Brudenell is positively packed out with moshers in sunglasses enjoying an ice-cold beer. Unfortunately

Pity Party, Dum Cumpsters, Spider Cider, Le Saboteur, All Beat Up @ Tower Bar, San Diego

Though they hail from different states, California’s Pity Party and Arizona’s Spider Cider set out on an adventure together, traveling across the western United States for some two weeks. The night before our nation’s celebration of Independence from Great Britain the bands stopped at San Diego’s Tower Bar. Joining

Asylums – ‘Alien Human Emotions’

It’s generally acknowledged that music and society are closely intertwined. From Lou Reed and Warhol’s Factory to Dead Kennedy’s ‘Holiday In Cambodia’, they reflect the landscape around them. Given the somewhat tumultuous state the world is in, both politically and societally, perhaps this is what drove London four-piece Asylums

Asylums record label, Cool Thing Records presents exclusive label sampler “An Introduction”

Asylums have been running their own label,  Cool Thing Records, since August 2014 when they released their debut single ‘The Death Of Television’. In between Asylums debut album ‘Killer Brain Waves’ (July 2016) and their highly anticipated forthcoming sophomore album ‘Alien Human Emotions’ (July 2018) they have released a series