Hoax – The Enemy Without (Self)
Hot damn, I love this sort of vicious, anger riddled, fury driven punk rock. Hoax have been plucked straight out of the eighties UKHC scene by a D-Beat powered time machine and sound like the…
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The Damned – Evil Spirits (Search and Destroy / Spinefarm Records)
There’s no better day than Friday 13th for The Damned to release their much anticipated new studio album; their first in 10 years. I say much anticipated as the old punk rearguard on Facebook have…
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Pennywise – Never Gonna Die (Epitaph)
Benjamin Franklin was wrong. Death and taxes aren’t the only things that any of us can be certain of, and if, during his long and incredible life, he’d been able to spend any time slamming…
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War On Women – Capture the Flag (Bridge Nine)
Here’s the thing, gender and sexuality is a non-issue with me. My old man taught me to treat people the way I’d want to be treated by them, that each and every single one of…
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Force Fed Lies – Begging for Change (Chaos Control)
Although this is the debut from North East three piece Force Fed Lies, it couldn’t sound further away from a first release. The songs are all killer, tightly played, well arranged and hard hitting slabs…
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Stomper 98 – Althergebracht LP/ CD (Contra Records)
Nowadays Stomper 98 belong the senior generation of skinhead bands, having been around for some twenty years. The last few years have seen a new crop of bands giving the old school boots and braces…
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The Lawrence Arms – We Are the Champions of the World 2xLP/ CD (Fat Wreck)
My first exposure to The Lawrence Arms was their 2002 album Apathy & Exhaustion. When I heard that record I was convinced this wasn\’t a normal band, but was in fact a laboratory-crafted scientific experiment…
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Dirt Box Disco – Immortals CD (STP Records)
It\’s an incredible album number six for these costumed maniacs – who would have thought that something started off as a bit of a laugh would not only go the distance but find a place…
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Bedford Falls – Send More Bees (Boss Tuneage)
South Wales retro indie punkers release their third album after a six year gap and to be honest they could have been better placed if it was 1994 and they’d just finished a set at…
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FULL BLEED LAUNCHES VOLUME 2
IDW Publishing\’s groundbreaking print-only 200-page Comics & Culture hardcover “magazine,” FULL BLEED, took Kickstarter by storm at the end of 2017, and launched this spring to critical and commercial success, with an unprecedented publication, and a…
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ILL FATE
That Ginge Knievil’s at it again for a Mass Movement interview first with Rhys Harris from new Welsh punks Ill Fate. Get ready to pogo! Interview by Ginge Knievil. MM: Alright, Rhys? Who are Ill…
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Wonk Unit – Terror (TNS Records)
I make no bones of the fact I love Wonk Unit and have since I first clapped eyes and ears on them in deepest, darkest Sarf London many moons ago. A lot’s gone on in…
