Can I shock you? I like Hot Nuns: a Norwegian duo (drums / bass guitar) who have set out to record with a simple rule
Read moreMilk Bath – s/t LP (Different Kitchen Records / Naked Time Tapes / World of Hurt, 2020)
Milk Bath hail from Oakland, California. They are a three piece combo. They sound nothing like anything you would associate with Cleopatra’s oft-storied bathtime beauty
Read moreThe Raging Nathans – Oppositional Defiance (Rad Girlfriend Records / Brassneck Records, 2020)
There’s few bands out there that I seemingly truly can’t get enough of. The Raging Nathans would be one of them. The band (assuming you
Read moreBarren Womb – Lizard Lounge (Loyal Blood Records, 2020)
Timo and Tony sound like the names of a couple of retired Italian mobsters who spend their days gormandising endless streams of spaghetti at the
Read more7in & EP round-up June 2020 (part 2)
An Uneasy Peace – s/t 7in (Dirt Cult Records) This band came uncomfortably close to being called “Unfuckable Chainsaw”. Verily. This EP has finally seen
Read moreThe Union Ares – s/t LP (Disillusioned Records, strictly no capital letters, Old Man Giles, 2020)
Wow. Just wow. I bloody love discovering new bands that are this great. Props to Disillusioned Wayne (that’s what I’m calling you from now on
Read more7in and EP round-up: June 2020 (part 1)
Frankie Stubbs – Blood Orange Moon (Little Rocket Records / Rad Girlfriend Records) The owner of one of the most distinctive voices in punk rock,
Read moreDisgraceland – Dose ‘Em Up (Self-released, 2020)
When I’m at my most reflective – long soaks in the bath, languorous country walks in the summer – I often think of the south-west
Read more7in and EP round-up May 2020 (part 1)
The Lawrence Arms – PTA (Epitaph) “Thank the facking maker” as C3 P0 might have said had the droid been moonlighting as the singer from
Read moreHeksa – Cenizas (Pumpkin Records / SNCL et al, 2020)
I’d never heard of Heksa before. Small wonder, given the tiny life I have somehow created for myself by only speaking English and occasional bouts
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