English Dogs – Mad Punx & English Dogs 1983 – 1985 (Cherry Red)
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…
The Slackers – What We Gonna Do Now/ Pick & Choose 12″ (Pirates Press Records)
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…
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Tearjerker – Untamed/ Siren EP (Little Rocket)
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…
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New Single From Thrash Punks Pizzatramp… ‘The Last Supper’
As we approach the release of Pizzatramp’s latest album ‘The Last Supper’ they have released a single with the same name. ‘The Last Supper’ started as a song about what chocolate Jimmy would break vegan…
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Mass Movement Presents… Episode 70: What More Can We Do…?
In which the middle aged crew chat about ‘Dark Matter’, ‘The Wild Geese’, ‘The Iron Claw’, ‘Manhunter’. ‘The First Omen’, the incomparable Joe Frank, share their memories of the worst gigs they were unfortunate enough…
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Doctor Who The Novel Adaptations: Goth Opera – Written by Paul Cornell, Adapted by Lizbeth Myles & Starring Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Micah Balfour & Natalie Gumede (Big Finish)
The Novel Adaptations range at Big Finish has always had a chequered history. Listeners with a long history of connection to the novels that in a very real sense kept Doctor Who alive in dark…
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Conan: Battle of the Black Stone #1 – Watch The Trailer!
CONAN OF CIMMERIA IS HAUNTED BY SHADOWS, LIVING NIGHTMARES CONNECTED TO A MYSTERIOUS EYE SYMBOL ETCHED IN BLACK STONE. An unspeakable evil looms over the Hyborian Age and every age connected to it… and it…
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Kevin Smith’s coming-of-age comedy ‘The 4:30 Movie’ Set for UK & Eire release from 13th September!
Kevin Smith’s coming of age comedy THE 4:30 MOVIE will be released in limited cinemas on 13 September before coming to Altitude.film and other digital platforms in the UK & Ireland from 21 October. It’s 1986 and the movie…
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Doctor Who: Dark Contract – Written by Will Hadcroft & Read by Matthew Waterhouse (BBC Audio)
Early in the Fifth Doctor’s time on screen, one of the big questions faced by actor Peter Davison was how to differentiate his incarnation from the massive, infectious, striding performance of his predecessor, the longest-running…
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First Look! Conan the Barbarian: Battle of the Black Stone #1
Heroic Signatures and Titan Comics are pleased to reveal the first look at a new Conan mini-series, CONAN THE BARBARIAN: BATTLE OF THE BLACK STONE. This four-issue series is written by critically praised CONAN THE BARBARIAN writer, Jim…
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TONY STARK REBUILDS HIS LEGACY IN PHILIP TAN’S IRON MAN #1 FOIL COVER
A brutal era of IRON MAN begins this October! Making his Marvel Comics debut, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Spencer Ackerman will team up with rising star artist Julius Ohta to build an epic new…
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Torchwood: Art Decadence – Written by Ash Darby & Starring: Simon Kane & Wilf Scolding (Big Finish)
Really terrific, top-tier villains in Doctor Who are phenomenally hard to come by. We’re sometimes lulled into forgetting that by just how many times the show has bottled a moment of intellectual or philosophical lightning…
