Out of Love – I Am Not Me EP (Venn Records) I got approached out of the blue about this one. The promo material suggests
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The Drowns – Under Tension (Pirates Press Records, 2020)
Now then. After an inauspicious return to reviewing “relatively current” releases, and the first one of 2020 with Beach Slang’s disappointing (on many levels) recent
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Beach Slang – The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City (Bridge Nine, 2020)
People who have been keeping the faith with the ramblings on this piece of shit website will be no stranger to the fact that I
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7in and EP round-up (January 2020)
Legend has it that this blog / webzine was regularly updated back in the day. I want this piece to serve as a return to
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7in & EP round-up February 2019: part 2
Vintage Crop – Company Man (Drunken Sailor Records, 2019) Alright then. The first (to my knowledge) release on Drunken Sailor of 2019. Vintage Crop are
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Gouge Away – Burnt Sugar (Deathwish Inc., 2018)
Have you ever wondered where female fronted indie rock and abrasive meat and spuds hardcore punk collide? Well, here’s your answer, and it’s fucking glorious,
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Columna – Las Cosas Que Perdemos (Dirt Cult Records / Last Hour Records / Sabotage Records 2018)
As people the world over no doubt know, and rightly sneer at us for, we in the UK are terrible for not being bilingual, let
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Get Married – Songs for the Sleepless (Asian Man Records / Wiretap Records, 2018)
Get Married are from San José, northern California, and as far as I can tell, Songs for the Sleepless is their first full length record,
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Piss Ghost / Madison Turner / Yankee Roses @Lucky You Tattoo
In order to be punk, I have gone almost all of this year without working. It’s allowed me to do a bunch of cool
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The Pretty Flowers – Why Trains Crash (Dirt Cult Records, 2018)
The Pretty Flowers hail from Los Angeles, and are made up of members of a whole raft of bands I’ve never heard of because I’m
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