Category: Pop-punk
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WACO: “ROCK SPIRIT ABSOLUTE JOY” album review – redefining ‘cosmic punk’
This album is like WACO themselves. It dodges descriptions. It cannot be categorised. This is a band who have lost everything before, and have nothing left to prove or fear. Recorded at Monolith Studios, ROCK SPIRIT ABSOLUTE JOY is the next eclectic chapter in the story of cosmic punk-escapists and cathartic rockers WACO. Preaching their […]
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Shark Bait: ‘Late Bloomer’ singles review – fast and stalwart alt-punk
Hailing in the heart of South Yorkshire, 4-piece Shark Bait don’t do things by halves. Gritty with an earnest complexity that we hear from the likes of Neck Deep and former skateboard-punks Gnarwolves, Shark Bait are simply just out to have fun and make a gaping bite in the process. Sidled with equally-earnest fellow punk […]
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have we lost our punk?
Revisiting the life and times of Pistols and Clash and their whole ‘scene’ got me thinking about where we are now with it all. Being punk now in 2022 is starkly different to what it meant to being punk in the 1970s. Of course, that will come naturally over time as music preferences bend and […]
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Your New Music Friday: 08/07.
Evening folks! I’ve got a special one for you here.. a quick NMF review of two stand-out songs that were released today. But the writing credit doesn’t go to me this time. Oh. No. It goes to my other half, my girlfriend, who has picked up the duty tonight for one time only – or […]
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Heads Held High:|| The Work of GNARWOLVES||
It’s always colder here in February, once we’re acquainted with the Autumn leeaaaaaaves You wouldn’t expect Brighton to hail such gritty markups – but it seems that a love of skateboarding, gruff DIY punk and partying is a universal sentiment everywhere. After earning a pretty decent number of fellow punk-dwellers that seemed to stick with […]
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