Electro Hippies were ace. They bridged the gap between hardcore punk and grindcore in a spectacular crusty fashion. When they were hardcore they were on a par with Heresy or Concrete Sox and when they…
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…
And it’s time for six ageless Hardcore-punk songs. State Funeral take elements of early US Hardcore and UK punk rock. It\’s a style that never gets old or boring, regardless of if you are revisiting…
Ironically I have just reviewed a reissue of the collected works of Hex, an anarcho band from Sunderland from the early 80\’s and now I have in my hands the brand new album of one…
I had not heard of this mob – another obscure UK band plucked from the vaults by the archivists at Boss Tuneage, but when I saw that this early-mid 80\’s band from Sunderland featured future…
If this reissue is not high up on the \”wants\” lists of fans of the melodic hardcore sound then it should be! The Instigators had more of a US hardcore influence that a lot of…
Thanks to Boss Tuneage, pretty much all recordings from the early days of the UK hardcore scene are being reissued and documented – they are slowly but surely building up the hardcore equivalent of the…
Not Tonight & The Headaches – If You Were Real You\’d Do Your Own Stunts CD (Boss Tuneage) Damn, if I wanted to get a t-shirt of this album cover it would need to be…
Warwound – A Huge Black Cloud CD (Spinyl Vinyl/Boss Tuneage) One of the very first of the Discharge sound-alike bands reissue their first 3 demos from 1983. A whopping 25 tracks of rough assed D-Beat…
Doctor Bison – Dewhursts: The Musical/Bring It On CD (Boss Tuneage) Concluding Boss Tunage’s comprehensive reissue of the DB back catalogue, and once again it’s a nicely put together affair comprising of the bands ‘Dewhursts:…
Doctor And The Crippens – Raphanadosis (Boss Tuneage) CD I remember seeing this band years ago with the exploding cabbages (which were a H&S risk as I got hit in the face with a piece),…
Thirty Six Strategies – Strategy Three (Boss Tunage) This, the third in the Strategy series, with one and two before this………ok, I will stop now and get on with reviewing it. This is a breath…
