Thee plague yeare of 2018 seems to go from strength to strength in terms of two things: 1. global events that signal our (potentially) imminent
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The Last Gang – Keep Them Counting (Fat Wreck Chords, 2018)
There was a time when I followed Fat Wreck Chords something approaching religious fervour, I guess around the mid-late 90s and very early 2000s. They
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Pkew Pkew Pkew –+One re-issue (Side One Dummy, 2017)
This is a bizarrely rapid turnaround for a re-issue. This was originally released in 2016 as ‘s/t’. What we got here is the s/t album
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Don Blake – Blake District (Round Dog Records, 2017)
Don Blake hail from Bolton, Lancashire, and are the latest in a line of bands Joe Barlow has been involved with, that are named after
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Küken – Küken II LP (Drunken Sailor Records, 2017)
Juice at Drunken Sailor delivers yet again. If you aren’t paying close attention to this label by now, you need to start, mate. This time
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Your Pest Band – Old Springhead (Dead Broke Rekerds / Brassneck Records / Snuffy Smiles 2017)
I’d seen quite a bit of a buzz about these guys in the lead-up to the release of this record, from people whose opinions I
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Booji Boys – s/t LP (Drunken Sailor Records, 2017)
First off, this has got to be a hot contender for one of the best records of 2017, and we’ve barely even got started yet.
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Drunken Sailor Records (Stoke) – an introduction, part 2
Alrighty, welcome to part two of the introduction to Drunken Sailor Records feature. They are a label based in Stoke, run by Julian ‘Juice’ Stevenson.
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The Murder Burgers – The 12 Habits of Highly Defective People (Asian Man Records / Round Dog Records, 2016)
The Murder Burgers are the undisputed kings of UK pop-punk. Hailing from Glasgow, gritty homeland of Rab C Nesbitt, fish suppers, Tennents Super and Taggart,
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2015: A dark year in punk rock
This year has been a dark year, both for me personally, and for the punk rock community as a whole, with several notable members passing
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