51percent – Wingecarribee Shire, New South Wales, Australia. Cover Photo credit – ElleBee Images – Click Here. 51percent hit the stage as a full band in 2012 and in what seems to be an Aussie tradition, at least to this “Prisoner Of The Motherland”, began churning out fast, melodic, yet abrasive...
Cold Summer – Wakefield/Leeds, England, United Kingdom. Photo credit – James Akbar Photography – Click Here. Based in Wakefield and Leeds in England’s north, Post-Hardcore quartet, Cold Summer, formed in 2011 and since then have seen two self produced EPs, a full-length album, a UK tour and spots alongside some...
Two For Flinching – Perth, Western Australia, Australia. Take a moment if you will and follow me to the suburbs of sunny Australia where only thing there is to worry about is having enough sun screen and the Jason Donovan fanatics kidnapping and brainwashing the youth into joining them in...
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...
Leggy – Ohio, Cincinnati, USA. Cover photo and above photo credit – Natalie Palmer Ah, Leggy. The dreamy Lo-Fi Garage Rockers from Cincinnati are back, and if their last EP, Nice Try was ‘like Vanilla Ice Cream (with some Kirsch), Apple Pie (with gold leaf Vanilla Kirsch Ice Cream), and Romeo and Juliet…...
Tinnedfruit – Falmouth, England, United Kingdom. Falmouth based Tinnedfruit began to release music in the latter parts of 2015. August and December both saw small scale releases, as is the norm with young bands, a few tracks here and there while a full-length is constructed. “The norm…” Now, Tinnedfruit, with...
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...
Denver, Colorado, USA. Finds From The Soundscape: A Glance At Denver’s Rock and Punk Scene. Cover photo of ‘The Larimers’. You may remember our article on Denver Punk n’ Rollers E/M/P back in December. In said article I hinted at a yearning for a visit to this fine musical city...
CUT UP – San Francisco, California, USA. Remember the golden age of 90’s Punk? Gritty Pop-Punk that hadn’t lost it’s bite, fast and melodic Skate Punk that stayed stuck in your head for days? You do? Fantastic, enter CUT UP. Formed in San Francisco in 2012, and showcasing a very...
Postscript – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Cover photo credit – Shannon Davis. Onward to our second Australian feature, Postscript. Melbourne based Postscript formed in 2014, a year later in June, a debut album surfaced. Eleven tracks of fast, melodic, hard-edged 90’s Skate Punk refreshed into the now via influences from some...