Manic Street Preachers – Critical Thinking review

The thing with a mid life crisis is that eventually, you’re just over it. Now thirty five years plus into … More

100 Greatest songs of the 20’s So Far #91 Protomartyr – Michigan Hammers

Released: 2020 In the flesh Joe Casey cuts an unlikely figure for someone who leads a band as seminal as … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 20’s So Far #95 Viagra Boys – Punk Rock Loser

Released: 2022 Put the phrase ‘sebastian murphy viagra boys interview’ to a search engine and the first entry is about … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 20’s So Far #100 Scowl – Bloodhound

Released: 2021 If California’s longstanding credentials as a major node in the hardcore punk scene are decades old, they also … More

100 Greatest Song of the 60’s #25 The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog

Released: 1969 As with any success, punk rock has many fathers. Famously notable in it’s lineage are Bowie, the New … More

Amyl and The Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness review

It’s probably wrong to fixate a little on Amy Taylor as the front woman of her band, but it’s a … More

Japandroids – Fate and Alcohol review

So this is it, then; after 18 years, four albums, hundreds of gigs, tens of thousands of miles and enough … More

Gurriers – Come And See review

The old saying was that if you remembered it you probably weren’t there, but a newer adage is that if … More

Fucked Up – Another Day review

A thematic series is not really something you’d expect to get from Fucked Up, a band who’ve bent and stretched … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #55 MC5 – Kick Out The Jams

Released: 1969 The MC5’s guitarist Wayne Kramer summed up the challenge of putting lightning back in the bottle when talking … More