Beer and Loathing is, by my count, the Real McKenzies thirteenth album. Their sophomore album, Clash of the Tartans, was one of the first records that I reviewed for Mass Movement way back in 1998…
I’ve got a confession to make. Apart from their debut album, Don’t Turn Away, and the covers record, Standards and Practices, they released, I know next to nothing about Face To Face. Nada, Zilch. Zip….
Some bands leave an indelible stamp on your soul. Whether you know it or not, they leave their mark on you and become part of everything that you were, are and will be; and that’s…
Wowsers, this little gem of an album is done and dusted almost as quickly as it kicks off! Wasting no time on frills or frivolity, Mean Jeans launch into their tunes and crank out their…
I remember Bracket from the mid-nineties heyday of Fat Wreck productivity and it felt that barely a week would pass by without them putting out a new album, or single, or \”live in a dive\”…
Clowns from Melbourne, Australia are one of those bands that have been on my radar for some time now, but this is the first time I\’ve properly checked them out, and I\’m glad I did….
Given that the band is celebrating something like 20 years of writing tunes you could be excused for thinking they might have started growing up and adapted their name to Bottlerocket, but one listen to…
Well at first I got very excited to read there was a new Strung Out record about to hit the streets. Then I read on and learnt this was to be an acoustic affair and…
If you’re going to shill for the man, then you’d better do it the right way. And by the right way, I mean the Mean Jeans way. Which is write a bunch of insanely catchy,…
Perhaps long overdue, this compilation brings together 35 recordings that have been chewed up and spat out by Fat Wreck\’s Australian flagship outfit Frenzal Rhomb over the years. Incredibly, they have released 8 albums and…
I have no idea why, but Dead To Me are one of those bands that just seemed to completely pass me by. Until this morning, I’d never heard one of their records and this afternoon,…
Firing on all cylinders, Useless I.D. have delivered an anthemic punk record that is up there with any of their previous releases at the top of the anthemic punk pile. Opening with the sub-one-minute \”Land…
