Tagged: At The Drive-In

Stella and The ‘Career Suicide’ Release.

Stella – Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Stella, a three-piece from around Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio that are in short, a little weird. Now, don’t let that throw you because it really is in a wonderful, discordant, progressively-toned way. Imagine The Shape Of Punk To Come-era Refused mixed with elements of Big...

Despereaux – ‘Hugging The Cactus’.

Despereaux – Oslo, Norway. For our previous work on the band – Click Here. It is far to say that Oslo Hardcore band Despereaux are very much as in as they are out of that very genre label. Hugging The Cactus is the band’s second release this year and to say that...

Oceans – The Band and The ‘What You Did To Me’ Single.

Oceans – Brighton/London, England, United Kingdom. Cover photo credit: JC Riot Photography – Click Here. Based between London and Brighton, Oceans are a band that class themselves as taking a new spin on the hybridised and commonly mixed genres of Post-Hardcore and Alternative Rock. Ordinarily when you read of a...

Dusting Off The Cobwebs… This Is Spider.

Spider – Long Beach, California, USA. Cover photo credit – David Chi. When a band “calls it a day”, splits, goes on an indefinite hiatus or explains that they have done so via various other explanations of nullification, it’s never a good day. The band could have have thirty years...

Fresh Picks: Super Unison – The Fruit Of Punk’s Loins.

Super Unison – Oakland/San Francisco, California, USA. Cover Photo credit: Angela Owens. Above photo credit: Reid Haithcock Photography – Click Here. I received a message recently from a friend in Baltimore in the US that I have semi-regular contact with. The conversations always end up on music and I often...

Modern Tribes – The ‘Everything Is Dying And I Will Probably Die Soon Too’ EP.

Modern Tribes – Oswestry, England, United Kingdom. Photography credit: Jasmine-Harding Photography – Click Here. For Our previous work on the band’s debut – Click Here. We first came across Oswestry‘s Modern Tribes at the tale-end of 2015. Their debut EP You Do Drugs, boasted short but punchy slab of raucous and aggressive...

Fresh Picks: Alive/Alone.

Alive/Alone – Chicago, Illinois, USA. Photo credit – Stolen Photography – Click Here. August 2014 saw Chicago four-piece Alive/Alone hit the airwaves with their debut self-titled EP, showcasing six tracks that sit somewhere in the middle of a high-noted, passionate, screeching and discordant set of Post-Hardcore, from both the old-school...