With a string of dinosaur-themed EPs and an experimental album with trillions of combinationsđź–¸ called Megabear, Me Rex certainly enjoys […]
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Go For The Gold are an intense rock band with just five singles to their name to date. ‘American’ is […]
Rapid and analog-thin, ‘Alright’ has a nostalgic tone and tiny bubbles around the edges making it sound like a classic […]
With a syrupy thickness to the sound and some angular full-fry vocals, It Got Colder is part punk, rock, noise, […]
Part of the quick reads programme from The Reading Agency, ‘The Cutting Season’ is already rubber-stamped as great storytelling and […]
The first musical offering since Greg passed last September, ‘Come Alive (Wired to the Moon)’ is another release of what […]
Just as I’m putting the ink pen back into its leather case to stow away after a day of writing, […]
Strap yourselves in for a revival-revival of the punk variety as the Dookie-era is resuscitated by Understandament in their new […]
Newly minted, Stand Atlantic’s ‘switchblade’ is an interesting mix of the familiar and the new. There’s the precision style and […]
A one-bar riffy intro and then it’s straight down to business in this rhythmic alt-metal single, ‘Horrorscope Heroine’, from Die […]
Fizzling at the edges, the guitars supply a tuneful riff that leads into ‘Chores’, lifted from Feeble Little Horse’s eleven-track […]
Rarely does a song grab me after two bars of bass guitar, but the bass harmonic is a wake-up call […]
Formed in 2016, Catatoneya is a alternative rock band from Pittsburgh who offer a guitar-led intelligent sound with tightly co-ordinated […]
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 […]
Freshly fluttering down, down, down onto the doormat in a flash of bright pink vinyl, Further Joy is the new […]
First of all, it’s a confirmed long-player release for Lauran Hibberd as ‘Still Running (5k)’ lands with the news that […]
Machine Gun Kelly has been unnecessarily defending his right to play whatever music he wants and I wanted to start […]
Created by Nuria Net and with Ceci Bastida (Tijuana No!) in the driving seat, ‘Punk in Translation’ delves deep into […]
This is undoubtedly Willow’s heaviest song thus far, collaborating with Siiickbrain to create a scream-laden track that’s lyrically dark, sonically […]
There’s more than hint of Dookie in this pop/punk single from Understatement, a power-trio punk band from Pittsburgh. There’s trebly […]
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 […]