Carter Daze – Woking, England, United Kingdom. Intelligent but Nihilistic Indie-Punk that sounds like mid-to-late 90’s Ash crossed with elements of The Jam and a generally bleak heavily-Punk orientated approach to life and music. Review over, see you next time. No, not quite. Carter Daze hail from Woking and very...
No Loves – Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Nashville Punks No Loves are a band that have been in the game in varying forms for quite some time. The band formed in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1996 and since then have chopped and changed both membership and output more than just a...
Slow Death Lights – Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Down and dirty, gloomy, melodic and inviting Stoner Rock. We’re done, review over. If only it was that easy… We are gathered here today to witness a dissection of the brand new album from Toronto bluesy-Stoner Rocker four-piece, Slow Death Lights. The eponymously...
BRUCE – Aarschot, Belgium. Cover photo credit: Marc Bauwens. Garage Punk, a genre that is both far more common than many are aware and a genre that is by far one of the most simplistically entertaining from the now broad and diverse Punk-Rock spectrum. Belgium has a vibrant music scene...
Splitters – Detroit, Michigan, USA. For the pre-release video feature on Splitters – Click Here. Above you’ll find a video where our Canadian writer Rob chronicles the on-goings of life in an underground band, his own and the life of musicians in that vein in general. Why is that relevant?...
Hummer – Warrington, England, United Kingdom. ‘Two engineers and an academic playing catchy, melodic Punk music.’ Don’t let the word ‘melodic’ fool you or start a series of alarm bells that causes you to have some sort of internet-based meltdown and don’t pretend not to know exactly what I’m talking...
Donkey Island Penitentiary – Los Angeles, California, USA. Escaped convicts of Donkey Island Penitentiary are creeping through the underground of the LA Punk scene. Armed with guitars and harmonicas, the Country-Blues-Punk criminals have recently released their debut EP Exile On 4th Street and if their name didn’t grip you enough, the...
Bottle Breakers – Kansas City, Missouri, USA. ‘Say a prayer for Lady Luck and turn the goddamn volume up’ Bottle Breakers are a Punk-fuelled Rock ‘n’ Roll band from Kansas City, Missouri. I first found them in the depths of one of Facebook’s many Punk-Rock music groups where their sound...
Groezrock Festival – Meerhout, Belgium. Summoning some of the best in new, contemporary and veteran Punk, Pop-Punk, Hardcore, and Metal (among others) that this planet has to offer, 2015’s festival went off with a bang despite starting off with somewhat soggy beginnings. If you were at the festival and putting...
United Defiance – Concord, California, USA. Raw Melodic Hardcore from across the pond. United Defiance, a four-piece hailing from Concord in that great state of Punk-Rock, California. Some of my favourite bands hail from that sunny, healthy place, and it is somewhere I plan on visiting one day. For now however,...