Tagged: Alternative Rock

Feast Fest ’18 @ The Mother’s Ruin 16/02/18 – 17/02/18.

Feast Fest – The Mother’s Ruin, Bristol, England, United Kingdom. Named after a man and the second-coming of his adoration of live music, Feast Fest is the second of its kind and will be gracing The Mother’a Ruin in Bristol this coming February all the while being graced itself by...

Horrible: The Singles and Covers Of 2017 – May to December.

Horrible – Chicago, Illinois, USA. For our previous work on the band – Click Here. Chicago not always so serious Punks Horrible have dedicated their musical output this year to twenty four singles split down the middle between exploring different avenues of music and covers from here there and everywhere. Above you can...

Fresh Picks: Dove House.

Dove House – Brighton, England, United Kingdom. (Cover) Photo credit: Zara Nashnush. Dove House are a band from Brighton with their fingers in more than just one stylistic pie. They list themselves as Alternative Rock and Post-Indie which in general reality could mean any number of things but in the reality...

Ben Diesel / The Stars Go Out and The ‘Get Splitfaced’ Split.

Ben Diesel – St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The Stars Go Out – St. Charles, Missouri, USA. For our previous work on Ben Diesel – Click Here. Ben Diesel are a Pop-Punk band from St. Louis, Missouri, a band we have seen before and a band that quite impressively took a number of non-Pop-Punk musical...

Thumbhole Records Return With ‘Tracks You Might Have Missed V2’.

Thumbhole Records – Your Ears, Right Now. For our previous work on the compilation – Click Here. Above can can find our article on the stellar UK underground Punk and Alternative label Thumbhole Records and their twenty track international compilation more than doing its best to showcase some of the...

Old State and The ‘Weight’ Of It All.

Old State – St. Louis, Missouri, USA. For our previous work on the band – Click Here. To say that St. Louis emotives have changed a lot of their three-ish years as a band is an understatement. The collective Old State have undergone a number of stylistic changes since their debut Leaving Home in...

Crimson Star and The ‘Bay View’ EP – January 2018.

Crimson Star – Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Birmingham is a big place, a very big place, a place that I personally spent a gratuitous amount of money in while touring its record shops recently. Now, this obviously gives me good reason to go back but perhaps there could be more...

Low Sun – ‘Reservoir Of Impermanent Bliss’.

Low Sun – Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Canada is not the warmest of places a lot of the time and that is something that Toronto two-piece Low Sun a know all to well. What was supposed to be a idyllic winter retreat in a family cottage to record their first full-length...

Boston Punks Under Orders Debut ‘The Speaking Mind’ Single/Video.

Under Orders – Boston, Massachusetts, USA.  Photo and design credit: Pearl Lung. Boston and Punk-Rock are relatively synonymous and thats a very good thing because underground scenes are unambiguously important as a form of cultural expression, as they often operate outside the limits imposed from above. Why am I beginning the...