Scream
Few bands have had the same sort of impact as Scream did. They were, and are, a ferocious, energy driven Hardcore behemoth who weren’t afraid to embrace rock’n’roll and melody and every single one of…
Few bands have had the same sort of impact as Scream did. They were, and are, a ferocious, energy driven Hardcore behemoth who weren’t afraid to embrace rock’n’roll and melody and every single one of…
Most folks from my middle aged and rapidly heading toward the grave generation of punk rockers will tell you that the first band that lit a fire inside them, made them think on an increasingly…
When vocalist Mike McColgan isn’t busy working with the Boston Fire Department as a 911 dispatcher, he’s bringing joy to people by writing and performing with his punk rock outfit STREET DOGS. The band is gearing up for…
There’s a hiatus and then there’s a January Dead hiatus. Having formed in 1982, the Newport foursome are remixing old tunes and creating new ones some 35 years since their last outing. And so, enter…
This week, The Damned are currently occupying the number seven position in the Official UK Album Charts with their new album ‘Evil Spirits’, released last week via Search and Destroy/Spinefarm Records. It’s a big achievement for the…
I guess it’s time that I finally admitted something I’ve been keeping secret for far too long. My favourite DC band, well, they weren’t, and aren’t, even from DC. They were from Virginia. While most…
It’s 10am, the April sun is shining and Danny McCormack of The Wildhearts / The Main Grains is in jubilant spirits in Newcastle. He has every right to be, as 2018 is proving to be…
This band is the discovery of the year for me already! Having never heard them before I was lucky enough to catch them live in Marseille, France a short while ago, and they won me…
For some 20 years, a Brazilian punk band named Blind Pigs banged out a series of albums and earned themselves the reputation of being \”Brazil\’s answer to Rancid\”. Sadly a couple of years ago a…
I never thought that I’d hear anything from, or about, the Satanic Surfers again after they called it a day a decade or so ago. And sure as eggs are elliptically shaped and what goes…
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…
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…