A one-bar riffy intro and then it’s straight down to business in this rhythmic alt-metal single, ‘Horrorscope Heroine’, from Die […]
Rarely does a song grab me after two bars of bass guitar, but the bass harmonic is a wake-up call […]
Re-issued as part of the Terror Twilight anniversary-and-a-bit deluxe edition, ‘Spit on a Stranger’ is faithfully accompanied by the original […]
You don’t get to spend two decades making face-smacking alt-rock and metal without oodles of talent. That is all! Ego […]
With an intro that harks to the very roots of Never Mind The Bollocks, Understatement merge classic and modern punk […]
Created by Nuria Net and with Ceci Bastida (Tijuana No!) in the driving seat, ‘Punk in Translation’ delves deep into […]
With some pretty visceral lyrics and a rhythmic riffing dark sonic backdrop, ‘Bad Influence’ is a heavy-hitter from Hot Milk. […]
Otto Penzler has gathered together fourteen stories of impossible crimes, all part of the locked-room mystery cannon, despite some great […]
With an overdriven brace of bars to open, ‘Highlights’ soon leaps into life just like the artwork suggests. This is […]
There’s an eighth album in the offing for the Pixies if they can choose from the forty-plus songs they’ve written […]
With a driving stomp of a beat and stabby guitars, ‘Hair Out’ is an explosive track that is the most […]
Misinformation, both unintentional and intentional (usually called disinformation), is one of society’s greatest challenges. It is deployed at scale against […]
When Brooklyn’s Leesta Vall came up with their pandemic concept of shut-in sessions, they probably didn’t think that they might […]
Midnight Oil released ‘Beds Are Burning’ thirty-five years ago in response to the displacement of Aboriginal communities. ‘It belongs to […]
Blind Channel’s self-proclaimed violent pop style takes a side step for their latest single. So, while there are still some […]
Live from Junction 1 in Cambridge, ‘Thought You Were My Friend’ is a new song from the new lineup for […]
Just Mustard return with haunting doomy tones in their latest release, ‘Still’. It’s a great teaser for the forthcoming album, […]
If I had ever written songs and albums like Feeder, which I most definitely haven’t, I would be pretty nervous […]
With Hot Milk benched on doctor’s orders, the warm-up was tasked to the very capable Los Angeles band, Bitters. They […]
Pretty much everything is a collab right now, but hit your brain’s pause button and give the MGK and Willow […]
It is well known already that we think Salem are the best glittering-dark band since forever; so it is no […]
After four decades of touring, The Wall played their last live show in 2017. Founders Andy Griffiths and Ian Lowery […]
From all the way in the Terror Twilight days of 1999, ‘Be the Hook’ is a previously unreleased track from […]
From Boston, Massachusetts, bedbug are suppliers of altpop gold. This is demonstrated no better than in their latest single, ‘songs […]