The Marvel Multiverse has gone more than a little tonto in recent years. Since Thanos, and the time-breaking solution to his arc, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and WandaVision, and, most pertinently…
My relationship with English Dogs is an odd one. I first heard them at the tail end of my thrash metal phase, and they were just that bit too punky for me at the time. Then…
New York ska institution The Slackers are making a habit of hitting record collectors with beautiful 12″ records such as the lovely Windowland record and here’s the latest offering in the series. Released in advance…
The words “Sunderland’s finest” could be applied to all manner of punk bands*, but new cats Tearjerker are very rapidly climbing up the Mackem punk rock league table. Their debut album made my jaw drop…
Kevin Smith, like Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Alan Moore, I could go on… is a part of that illustrious group of people whose name will forever invoke images of superheroes and comic books. His passion…
More than fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix is still universally praised as a man who forever altered music, and set the bar for every fretboard maestro and six string virtuoso who followed in…
If the press info is to be believed, then this will be the final album released by the trio of hard-headed punk metal bastards Pizzatramp, and that will be a crying shame. The album cover…
With striking artwork, North-East England’s Gimp Fist are back for another bout of upbeat punk rock anthems. With each album, they are developing their sound. Although they haven’t strayed too far from their origins, this…
In recent years, there has been a fantastic crop of new melodic punk/ hardcore bands coming through in the UK, recent favourites include Tearjerker and Fast Blood, and with this, their debut EP, Warrington’s Great…
With former and current members of some of the finest bands to have launched out of Bristol in the last 20 years, Level Threat certainly have a reputation to uphold before they even start. Born…
I’ve been keeping tabs on this relatively new band from the North East of England for a while now, so I was pretty excited to learn that their debut album was due for release. I…
This two-disc set compiles the second and third albums from this punk rock institution from South Shields in the North-East of England. Heading way back to 1980 We Gotta Get Out Of This Place opens…
