Violent Arrest – Authors of Our Own Demise – 7” (Self Released)
Yes I know I’m way late in reviewing this but I’ve had a lot on okay? An apt sample from 1984’s Repo Man provides the intro for White Suburban Punk a biting indictment on punks’…
Yes I know I’m way late in reviewing this but I’ve had a lot on okay? An apt sample from 1984’s Repo Man provides the intro for White Suburban Punk a biting indictment on punks’…
The originators of melodic Hardcore? Quite possibly. Californian Coffee Punks return after a lengthy hiatus with an album of sublime catchiness. ‘Hypercaffium Spazzinate’ bubbles along with Karl Alvarez’s bouncy bass lines and Bill Stevenson’s faultless…
Long awaited debut release from the Bristol/Welsh combo featuring ex members of Ephemeral Foetus, and Bring To Ruin; and boy was it worth the wait. 3 tracks, kicking off with ‘Disturbing The Peace’, and almost…
When I first started going to shows, buying records and reading zines, there were four publications that meant the world to me: Maximum Rock’N’Roll, Flipside, Suburban Voice and Artcore. In the twenty-eight years or so…
Collecting together the \”Clay Years\”, this huge collection brings together all the early GBH EP’s onto the one disc. Starting off with the essential mini-album \”Leather, Studs, Bristles and Acne\” from 1981, it\’s almost worth…
Way back in the mists of time, it must have been around 1990 or so, I picked up a record called Ben Hur by a band called Bitch Magnet, mostly because I liked the band’s…
For some people it was GBH, for others it was The Exploited or Discharge, but for me, the quintessential UK punk rock (bordering on Hardcore) band of the eighties was, and will, always be Broken…
Given the band’s name, most punks would automatically assume that The Crusties played bullet belt encased, cider fuelled, dreadlock driven D-Beat, but nothing could be further from the truth, as this mid-eighties Milwaukee band straddled…
Just as Discharge releases an absolutely blistering new album that is designed to blow away all cobwebs, Westworld records have deemed it fit to reissue their 1991 album \”Massacre Divine\”. After their unintentionally hilarious excursion…
Hot off the heels of the 7\” announcing the marriage of minds between Mean Jeans and Fat Wreck comes their brand new full-length. This collection of 12 songs is designed to put a big grin…
Seeing as Dirt Box Disco are taking a breather from their release schedule this year, that provides the ideal opportunity for DBD guitarist Mr Spunk to flex his other musical wings with a new Spunk…
A bit of a treat for us 80s USHC fans given the relative scarcity of Dicks material available. If you’re not familiar with them, The Dicks were an Austin band fronted by the openly gay,…