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When I first discovered rock music at 15 I used to hate old farts telling me that the bands I was listening to were never as good as the originals, like Deep Purple and Judas Priest cringes and screws up face. As a young kid all that seemed dated, old and laughably bad! However, when it came to punk rock, for some re»
Assert have had their fair share of misfortune since their ‘Left Opposition’ release on Household Name a few years back. When this aggressive slab of politically challenging hardcore punk first stabbed the UKHC scene Assert had asserted themselves as the uncompromising force at the forefront of UK hardcore. This may al»
Just from the name of these Swedish chappies you kinda get some idea of the kind of aggressive full-on fast-paced hardcore they’re pulling off. And for those unfamiliar with the old school style, Raised Fist are a band who epitomise all the stomping beatdowns, raging riffage & impassioned hollers that hardcore l»
When someone advised me to pick up Canaan’s demo at a hardcore show a while back I don’t think I expected it to be quite so outstanding! I stuck it on full volume & let the feedback introduction to the song ‘Gehenna Made Flesh’ slowly build it’s way up, the rattling drum toms building up the suspense unti»
There is a real air of excitement in The Garage tonight as all the flappy-shorts & rucksack-wearing skanksters begin to fill it to capacity in anticipation to the ska-punk heroes that’ve brightened up their world since the first horn parps of ‘The World is New’ first burst out of their speakers on their debut CD back i»
“Rise up! Dance to a different theme/ Rise up! Free your mind of what they say/Rise Up! Shakedown!” – ‘Shakedown!’ This is The Start and indeed the start of a new era for Aimee Echo, who’s risen up from the ashes of Human Waste Project with a sound so brave, so unpredictable & so exciting it t»
The giant heavy metal tour Tattoo The Earth, featuring some of the biggest names in the world of heavy music has been put in jeopardy today due to yesterday's tragic events which have left America's airlines paralysed. The tour, featuring such luminaries as Pantera, Slayer, Static X, Biohazard & Vi»
Taking over from the much-missed Vans Warped tour The Concrete Jungle has arrived at Reading for the first time, bringing with it some of the best acts in the world of punk, ska & hardcore. As usual outside this tent there’s a skate ramp where you can watch a number of crazy fools fall arse over tit professionally fr»
There we were. me and Louise, popping out to the student’s union for a few cheap pints & a couple of vodka & tequila slush puppies when upon our arrival we’re greeted by a hoard of 14/15 year old pre-pubescent kids with died green hair, red baseball caps [back to front of course] and big oversized flappy T-shirts & sho»
As sceptical as I was when I first listened to this - Forever Until October’s debut 3-track EP - I was ready to look past their driving emotional emo-core rhythms & dismiss them as Hundred Reasons mark 2. Because it’s got to be said FUO do sound a lot like ‘em before they opted for a more (how shall I say this »
Babies Three have slowly been building up their profile over the past year or so, supporting bands such as Hot Water Music, Hundred Reasons & Samiam and although they’ve released an album via Germany’s Scene Police, as well as various singles & splits, many consider this to be the recording which will really see»
At The Drive-In are the most hyped band of the year. Fact. They’ve been hailed by NME as “the new Nirvana”, despite bearing absolutely no similarities musically and ideologically, and they’ve even gone so far as to say they’re the, “best new band in the world.” »
I recently saw Optophobia play Shrewsbury Quarry (a very large flowery park where 80,000 green-fingered types from all over England & Wales are soon to descend for the annual flower show) and witnessing the sheer power & force of their music was a big enough reason for me to sit up and take note of ‘em.»
Although I’ve read a lot of interesting reviews regarding Mum & Dad I feel ashamed to have not actually heard them before this. This is a rare limited edition 7” in a fetching mirrored sleeve with only 500 copies available only through the TN website. Although probably not the best introduction to M&D this does »
Like Badly Drawn Boy, Dakota Oak consists mainly of just one chappy – Dave Tyack, although some of his mates have been roped in to contribute to some tracks. But unlike BDB there are hardly any vocals accompanying the laid back music that trundles along andante. The simplistic arrangements of Dakota Oak, usually consis»
This record is jus sooo relaxing. I’m starting to feel very lethargic just listening to Jane Weaver’s soft voice, caressing and massaging my shoulders, rubbing away all my conscious thoughts and sending me to a far off place in the clouds. [Or I could just be tired from one of my mate’s bangin illegal parties last nigh»
This Summer looks set to become a memorable in the eyes of all you punkers out there, with an array of talent making there way over to our shores to rock our punky l'il world! First up, we have the rocktastic Reading & Leeds festivals which are playing host ot the goosebump-inducing Concrete Jungle Stage. Of t»
I've got to say that, as sceptical as I was about this all-female group, I'm utterly surprised at how good Fabulous Disaster actually are. As the second act to be signed to Fat's Pink & Black offshoot for all-female bands Fab Dis prove that they know exactly what their instruments are for. And man, what a voice! »
Now, I can’t say I’ve ever been a fan of TSOL. OK so they were pretty huge in the early 80s, headlining the Hollywood Palladium, getting paid £4,000 a show, causing mayhem around the country and trashing & setting fire to house parties, but when you actually cut to the music, well, I just don’t ‘get?Eit. I guess»
Anyone with an unnatural fixation with the secretion from Rock Stars may wish to make their way over to the US this week. As possibly the most ludicrous item of rockablia to ever go to auction, a urinal peed on by David Bowie, Motley Crue and Jon Bon Jovi when it was in a recording studio in Vancouver, Ca»
The Extreme Festival, which features such superb bands as: Less Than Jake, The Vandals, The Ataris, H20, Voodoo Glow Skulls, 311 and Pitchshifter has unfortunately been denied it's London venue license by the local council. The event which is set to feature the cream of the punk rock crop as well as pro»
I can honestly say you will have never heard, and are never likely to hear, a band quite like Iblis. Picture a classically trained virtuoso violinist and pianist playing away in his room a little bit of Rachmaninov, maybe a little Debussy or some of Chopin’s more dynamic preludes when he overhears his brother playing h»
Coming kicking, screaming and fighting out of my speakers is the latest release from San Francisco’s Prank Records and collates Artimus Pyle’s Civil Dead 12” EP with their Cold Cold Earth 7” to CD. Although to most people this would merely seem like some godawful racket, I can’t help but feel strangely impressed by the»
If I was feeling particularly lazy I could sum up this album in six words: Cast the First Stone; Part 2. For it is because of Ensign’s characteristic, but still rather limiting old skool Gorilla Biscuits /In My Eyes hardcore formula that unfortunately makes this sound like it was recorded in the same sessions as»
The Buggers first grabbed my attention when I saw them a few weeks ago playing a small local punk night at the Foundry in Birmingham. Their set was top notch, skilfully dishing out tuneful punk rock anthems to a wilful crowd lapping up every strum & beat. It’s no wonder they were voted No.7 best unsigned band in last y»
I was kinda reluctant to go to this concert. I’ve been to some amazing punk shows recently –The Buggers, Pignut, Living End – and if it wasn’t for their disappointing last album ‘End Is Forever’ I would have been more than willing to go. It’s just that listening to the said album I kind of feel The Ataris are starting»
In the Guardian this week they had an article called ‘101 Things We Don’t Miss’, written by a Zoë Williams. Hmm, I thought. Should be interesting coming from The Guardian. Despite having things in the Intro such as Socialism, the pound note & The Beatles [of all things] as examples of things ‘people’ do miss, at No. 99»
Woooh. Now this is one heck of a spooky collaboration. Featuring AFI vocalist Davey Havok, Danzig guitarist Todd Youth, Samhain/ Tiger Army drummer London MAY & Samhain drummer Steve Zing on bass, not to mention a guest appearance from Glenn Danzig himself I?m surprised there are no other current members of The Misfits»
HURRAH! It's Easter holidays, I'm off college for a few weeks, have moved out of the hustle & bustle of smokey Manchester [and away from those pesky car theives that are somehow attracted to my Vauxhall Astra] and into the Foot & Mouth-infected Shropshire where burning sheep & cows greet me with a similarly smokey clo»
As with many of today’s up & coming hardcore/punk bands I first came across 59TTP through name-dropping in interviews and numerous T-shirt sightings at various hardcore shows but it wasn’t until a few years ago in Holland that I got my first taste of the band. OK, so they didn’t grab my attention as much as I’d hoped b»
