London-based avant-garde alternative rock band Death & The Penguin apparently take their name from a work of post-soviet satire by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. Already
Read more7in & EP Round-up August 2018 part 1
Goodbye Blue Monday – Misery Punk Ruined My Life EP (Make-That-A-Take Records, 2018) Goodbye Blue Monday hail from bonny Scotland, and this 3 song EP
Read moreFair Do’s – Leopards (Lockjaw Records, 2018)
I’ve heard a fair amount about Fair Do’s over the last few years or so, and the way I hear it, these guys are pretty
Read moreStringer – My Bad (Wiretap Records, 2018)
Stringer are from Brooklyn, NYC and apparently used to be known a Heeney. Motherfucker, either way I am no wiser. Intrepid reviewer and writer extraordinaire
Read moreDollar Signs – This Will Haunt Me (A-F Records, 2018)
Holy sheeeeeee-it. This one has come totally outta the left field and grabbed my ass. I was not expecting this. Particularly from A-F Records, whose
Read more7in & EP Round-up, July 2018 (part 2)
Chain Whip – s/t 7in (Dirt Cult Records /Neon Taste Records, 2018) Oh-ho-ho yeah!!! Holy shit. This rips, mate. Dirt Cult Records do it again,
Read moreMom Jeans – Puppy Love (Counter Intuitive Records / Big Scary Monsters, 2018)
As the truest measure possible of how irreversibly un-cool I’ve become, now that I’m a proper adult with a kid and everything, I was totally
Read moreDog Party – Hit & Run (Brat, 2018)
Wow. It seems like only yesterday that Dog Party dropped their fifth album, Til You’re Mine on Asian Man Records. In reality it’s what… almost
Read moreThe Human Project – Clarion Call (self-released, 2018)
The Human Project have been on the periphery of my radar for some time now. However, as can often be the case, I hadn’t gotten
Read moreThe 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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