Hammerhands are a bunch of noisy sludgelords out of Ontario, Canada. They’ve been pedalling their racket around their home country for a few years now,
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Heart Attack Man – Fake Blood (Triple Crown Records / You Did This, 2019)
I was put on to these guys by Mike Cubillos of Earshot Media. I was kind of intrigued, because, well the Beastie Boys song of
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The Vicious Cycles – Motorcycho (Pirates Press Records, 2019)
The Vicious Cycles are from Vancouver, British Columbia. They already have two 7in records and a previous full length under their belts. I suppose a
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This Is Not A Drill – Fight Like A Girl (self-released, 2019)
South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire’s finest, This Is Not A Drill return to the fray with a new self-released full length album, Fight Like A
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Endless Bore – Personal Development (self-released, 2019)
Endless Bore approached me through Facebook for a review of their new full length, Personal Development. I say full length, but with the songs averaging
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Crocodile God – Thirteen (Brassneck Records / Crackle Records, 2019)
Only the other week, I was having a right good chat about those great bands from the UK scene in the early – mid 90’s:
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Tommy and June – s/t (Fat Wreck Chords, 2019)
What an incredible and unexpected breath of fresh air this is! About a gazillion miles away from both the skate punk heydays of the 1990s,
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Freak Genes – III LP (Drunken Sailor Records, 2019)
I’ll be honest, I had to listen to this album multiple times in short bursts. Given that most of the tracks on Freak Gene’s III
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7in and EP roundup July 2019 (part 3)
The Drowns – The Sound 7in (Pirates Press Records) If you somehow slept on it, The Drowns released their debut full length, ‘View From the
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7in & EP round-up – July 2019 (part 2)
What the hell is happening? Two installments of the 7in and demo round-up on the trot and not a single turkey in sight. This seems
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