Hella Grey – Bloodstains (Agent Orange Cover)
Agent Orange’s main musical innovation was their ability to marry surf music to punk rock while maintaining the aggression of hardcore. Bloodstains are, perhaps, their most famous song, although the group maintains…
Cowboy Destroy – Bang Your Friends
Hiding behind the dirty power-chords and the audacious song title sits a punk band that’s been equipped with a few six strings and basic knowledge about producing a record. Besides the enthusiasm, there’s little else a…
Lean and mean: Noisy Vertigo and Slow Walk release new singles
November 13, 2020
Noisy Vertigo – Back In The Box
If you think that most lads out in France are making electronic music while consuming exorbitant amounts of filter-free cigarettes, you may be right. However, Noisy Vertigo is here to show that there’s more to come from the…
If By Whiskey – Hell Has a Garden With Angels
If By Whiskey’s “Hell Has a Garden With Angels” could be the first song you’re required to sing after you’ve joined a cult. Sure, on the surface this sounds like a folk tune inspired, like…
Gutter poet: Mick Neely, Graves reviewed
October 23, 2020
Mick Neely – Tiger King
The original, famed, US, and UK punk-contingent used to hint at violence while performing their three-chord blitz-rock to a terrified audience. The Birthday Party and the Pop Group performed their music while audaciously suggesting violence…
Screaming for attention: BABYLUNGS and John E Vistic reviewed
October 20, 2020
BABYLUNGS – Quit Ur Job and Drop Out of School
When you cut right down to it what did the original punk-rockers do? Well, the great Iggy Pop confronted his audiences violently, especially in England, leaving them feeling both fascinated and afraid. The Sex Pistols…
Allergic To Humans - Limestone Rock (Review)
September 26, 2020
There’s a plethora of high-quality, frenetic garage rock coming our of Sweden these days. While these bands, Allergic to Humans included, explore different themes and, may even use different instruments, what seems to tie them all of them together is a growing sense of…
Distortion riffage - New music reviews - September 2020
September 10, 2020
Jason Kane & The Jive – Rising Smoke
If you want to experience the single “Rising smoke” by Jason Kane & The Jive, I suggest you do so through the power of the video. In it, long-haired, bearded, sweaty men play doomy Sabbathy riffs in a smoke…
The overused mantra when it comes to periods of political turmoil is that at least they provide us great protest music, punk-rock especially.
This is not always reality! Are the charts any better today than they were 4 years ago?
How many people are making punk-rock…