
Year: 2021

London punks Out Of Love are pleased to announce their return with their forthcoming second EP Funny Feeling set for release on 16th April 2021 via Gallows’ label Venn Records. As a first taste of the record, lead single ‘Play Pretend’ is out now, accompanied by the band’s first full official music video. Commenting on the Continue Reading

New Zealand London-based band announce new mini-album and drop a brilliant new single Written and recorded in-between lockdowns in 2020, New Zealand born but London-based punks Desperate Measures drop a new video. It’s called The Rich-Tual, and you can see and hear it in all it’s brilliant glory here. It’s taken from the band’s forthcoming […]Continue Reading

Adelaide’s Alt-Rock/ Punk three-piece, Nocturnal Animals, came slinking out of the darkness after their release of 4-singles in 2020. They ended the pandemic year with a slow anthemic belter ‘SFOS‘ in November: Nocturnal Animals continue their night stalking in 2021 with the release of their new single ‘Articuno Makes Waves‘ on February 19. Continue Reading

From Patti Smith to Pussy Riot, punk has seen women explore and breakdown stereotypes. But who were the female punk pioneers who made it ok for women pick up guitars and challenged how 'chicks' should look and behave?Continue Reading

Havelocke have announced their new EP Arsonist will be released 13th April via Silent Cult Records. Continue Reading

Punk Rock Bowling, which cancelled its planned 2020 Las Vegas festival due to the pandemic, has revealed the lineup for its 2021 edition.Continue Reading

Hardcore ‘supergroup’ Venomous Concept to release a “more up-tempo high-paced album mixed in with a Husker Dü melodic 80’s hardcore punk feel.’ Hardcore, punk, extreme metal, grindcore (you pick a genre) supergroup Venomous Concept has just finished recording their fifth studio album, according to the band’s guitarist Shane Continue Reading

Twenty years after Ian Lowery‘s death, David Lowery has gotten justice for his brother’s efforts in Sunderland Punk group, The Wall. The full catalogue of songs written and sung by Ian during his time with The Wall has been released on a compilation album, The New Way to Peroxide. The Wall was Ian Lowery’s second […]Continue Reading

It really irks me that I like this album. I didn't want to like it. I mean, I shouldn't have liked it. But I keep finding myself sneaking another listen. Continue Reading

With no contract, booze, drugs or big bucks in sight Ian MacKaye and friends set up an independent record label 41 years ago and gave US punk a conscience. In 1980 the U.S. was on the cusp of Reagan’s Presidency. The charts were home to acts such as Michael Jackson and Olivia Newton-John, and the […]Continue Reading