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 – 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...
El Yunque – Hasselt, Belgium. Cover photo credit: Geert Braekers Photography – Click Here. El Yunque are a four piece Noise Rock band leaning on sounds from Slint, The Jesus Lizard and Fugazi, as well as modern contemporaries such as Big Ups and Iceage. Their debut album Baskenland is grating and filled with glass cutting...
Editor’s Note – This is the first article by our new writer, our second hailing from the USA, Stephen King. Now I know what your thinking and yes, that is he real name. Stephen chose a recollection for his first piece, a recollection of a Christmas time house show he both...
UGLYBoNES – Chicago, Illinois, USA. ‘Four best friends that wanna take a chainsaw to each other’s gonads’ For our work on the 2014 UGLYBoNES/Step Right Up split – Click Here. For the band’s appearance in our fantasy Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater soundtrack – Click Here. The Chicago suburb’s UGLYBoNES formed...
Heriot – Swindon, England, United Kingdom. The scene within my home-town of Swindon is dominated by cover bands and singer/song writers. But if you care enough to scratch the surface and dig deeper, there’s another layer hidden. A Hardcore scene is alive and well, thriving in the youth of this decaying...
Super Thief – Austin, Texas, USA. Article cover photo credit – Jacqueline Lege Austin‘s Super Thief take all that you love from the classic Steve Albini records, and wreck it by way of Fugazi. What I mean of course is that their etching of Post-Hardcore and Noise Rock, isn’t a washy shot of water – because you’re...
Negative Bones – Baltimore, Maryland, USA. ‘Negative Bones is a magic swamp where amps outnumber people…’ – He saw that… It’s great when bands challenge what has been established. Whether it’s through a full throttle change-up, or simply via the subtle changes that often becomes the quality that ultimately sets them apart. That was a...
Television Villain – Bath, England, United Kingdom I’ve wanted to get this band significantly FRESHED for a while now. Television Villain are a four-piece Post-Punk/Alternative Rock band from Bath. In their infant stages, the band’s sound is remarkably refined and natural. Something… something Post-Punk Revival. The first single to be...
Deadlines – Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. Gruff, yet upbeat and melodic. Cardiff Sounds. Earlier this year Deadlines released a second EP entitled Steroid City. An EP filled with four tracks of gruff Punk goodness that could easily be found upon an Epitaph release – think Off With Their Heads. We first...