Tagged: Punk

Pembleton – The New EP – ‘Illumiparty’

Pembleton – Bristol, England, United Kingdom. The sound of three lads, having fun and playing the music they want to hear. Fair enough. Pembleton hail from Bristol and play an upbeat and up-tempo collection of nineties-esque Punk music that could easily fit both a Punk or Pop-Punk bill. The band have two EP...

Snake – ‘Love, Hate, Life, Death’ – The New *LIVE* EP

Snake – Kingston Upon Thames, England, United Kingdom. The forces of UK Punk continue to rise. Snake have a long history of personnel changes within their line up and now exist as stripped down two-piece made up by two brothers hailing from Kingston Upon Thames, London, playing a loud and distorted set...

I Can’t Tell You… Literally A Band For Everyone.

I Can’t Tell You – Long Beach, California, USA. ‘Original music in a variety of styles’ – That’s the band’s simple one-liner when asked what they play. Bang on too. You know those conversations about music you have with people that can sometimes lead to answers such as; ‘I like a bit...

The Song of Time: How Video Game Music has Levelled Up

When the designers of early video games first developed the ability to synthesise sound in gaming back in the 1970s, there was not much scope for creativity. However the idea of music in games has grown over time and is now a huge part of the industry. When Atari unleashed...

Some Pulp – ‘Some Pulp’ Album Review.

Some Pulp – Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Catchy, gritty Garage Rock pizza with sprinklings of Punk and Grunge, Some Pulp are, in their own words, ‘distorted young lust of yesteryear’ here to, ‘let howling guitars cure your courtly woes’. But forget heartache, because we’re smiling. These guys bring to the table the sweet “catchy as a Taylor...

The Gunflowers, A Debut Single and Fresh Plans

The Gunflowers – Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom. We do like our local music scenes here at MF. Our scope has spanned many of the great music hives of the UK, US and to a lesser extent Europe. Today though, we’re focusing on Bath, where The Gunflowers are discharging rounds and...

Yawning Dog – ‘Grow’/’Don’t Be Shy, Vlad’- New Sounds and Upcoming Tour

Yawning Dog – Hemsworth, England, United Kingdom. You may remember our work on these ‘STONER GRUNGE PUNKY MONKEYS’ from back in October last year. Mr. Fresh, AKA Stefan, gave his thoughts on the band’s Doll/Torso and Sugar/Jar EPs. We ended up awarding them ‘Breakthrough Act of the Year’ in our awards for 2014. So,...

Giant Burger – Diversity For Your Music Diet

Giant Burger – Hackney, London, United Kingdom. Giant Burger are a band. A band from London. They make music. Weird, wonderful and chilled out music and that’s something we love at MF; a band doing what they want to do and it sounding great. Hailing from Hackney, Giant Burger are...

Yawning Dog – We Review ‘Doll/Torso’ and ‘Sugar/Jar’ EPs

Hailing from Hemsworth, England, they’re called Yawning Dog and describe themselves as ‘STONER GRUNGE PUNKY MONKEYS’ – if your ears aren’t pricked, then you are the prick. Now, usually a yawning dog is cute, something to point out to the girlfriend and say, ‘Hey, that dog is having a yawn...