Released: 1982 It wasn’t the first time The Clash had found themselves at a cross roads, but it would be … More
Tag: Punk
Idles – Ultra Mono review
December 2019, Leeds: the atmosphere at that Idles gig, precisely one week before the general election, is one of positivity, … More
July 2020’s Best New Music
10. Kush Jones – Earth Note 9. Sofia Portanet – Free Ghost 8. Bugseed – Caria 7. Disclosure, slowthai – … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 1980’s #54 The Stranglers – Golden Brown
Released: 1982 If music is in part of the reflection of the drugs taken by the people who make it, … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 1980’s #82 Black Flag – Six Pack
Released: 1981 Michael Azerrad’s beyond essential book Our Band Could Be Your Life tells the story of how a handful … More
Fontaines DC – Dogrel review
People talk a lot these days about identity, about standing for something and wearing it, as if by defining yourself … More
Potty Mouth – SNAFU review
It’s hard to imagine Malcolm McLaren believing that punk rock, a movement he created originally as a way to sell … More
Don Letts Interview : “You can’t silence the artist”
The generation that brought us punk rock always had a lot to say, but despite most of them being pension … More
Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 20th Anniversary Edition Review
Mostly forgotten though it is now, the chief controversy that surrounded the original release of the Manic Street Preachers fifth … More
Idles – Live In Manchester
“Joe Talbot is openly moved by the audience’s fierce commitment, but by what lies beyond it, a bond which welds the quintet and their fans together existing at a level buried far beneath the guts of their visceral punk”
