Ugh. It’s not a good feeling when you start off really properly digging an album and invest yourself in it, and even potentially recommend said
Read moreManiac – Dead Dance Club (Dirt Cult / Hovercraft, 2018)
LA’s Maniac (i.e. the four piece band, not LA’s premier individual maniac, whoever that may be, although I’m sure many vie for such a lauded
Read moreDie Hoffnung – Elegies and Creation Songs (Belladonna Records, 2017)
Die Hoffnung were from Gainesville, Florida, and this is as far as I can tell something of a posthumous release. The band featured members of
Read more7in & EP Round-up, June 2018 (part 1)
Dark/Light – s/t (Dirt Cult, 2018) Portland, Oregon’s Drak/Light (which is apparently pronounced as Dark Slash Light) describe themselves as ‘cold weather music for combating
Read moreMorrow – Fallow (Alerta Antifascista / Halo of Flies 2018)
For those that don’t know (I counted myself amongst this number until several months ago), Morrow is a DIY emo-crust/ melodic crust punk band from
Read moreComrades / Thrash Can house show, Clearwater FL (May 2018)
Comrades / Thrash Can / The Antidon’ts / Scumbag Billionaires Saturday, May 19th 2018 A House, Clearwater, FL Some people have the impression that to
Read moreFuture Girls – Motivation Problems (Dirt Cult, 2018)
Future Girls are from Halifax, Nova Scotia. They started out in 2015 as a song writing outlet for Matty Grace (of Fat Stupids, Weekend Dads).
Read moreGloom Sleeper – Luminous Galaxies (Dirt Cult, 2018)
Looking at the band name and the record title, you might expect this to be some kind of epic and sludgy stoner rock epic that
Read moreDon Blake – Tough Like Diamonds (2018)
Bolton, Greater Manchester’s Don Blake are back yet again. They are proving to be quite prolific, these guys. Tough Like Diamonds is their second proper
Read moreSharp/Shock – Youth Club (Heart & Skull, 2018)
Admittedly, I put this on before I read up on Sharp/Shock’s background, and I was thinking “jeezerz, these Americans are pure Anglophiles, mate – this
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