There are few to almost no good things to come out of the pandemic and its lockdowns a couple years back but one bright moment was the birth of THE COVIDS. A band “created out of boredom during the first… Read More ›
Buzzcocks
Rotten Mind – Unflavored
Released a large handful of weeks back, Unflavored is the new album from ROTTEN MIND and yet another incitement from the Swedish quartet which demands attention. The band’s rapacious sound, a mix of punk rock, garage punk, and post punk,… Read More ›
Black Rose Burning – The Wheel
Eighteen months ago, Black Rose Burning introduced itself to wider attention with The Year of the Scorpion, a seriously captivating debut album bred in the richest essences of post punk, gothic rock, and alternative pop. It was a striking encounter… Read More ›
The Pulsebeats – Lookin’ Out
From first being introduced to Spain based rockers The Pulsebeats with the release of their self-titled debut album around 2011/12 we found an instinctive appetite for their garage rock/punk rock/power pop seeded sound which has only grown stronger by the… Read More ›
Shevils – Miracle Of The Sun
Having had a rich and thick taster of new album Miracle Of The Sun through early singles, Norwegian noise eruption Shevils are poised to unleash its full body in a couple of weeks or so. Like a predator they are… Read More ›
Kid Klumsy – The Faces Don’t Fit
The past two years have seen UK rockers Kid Klumsy leave a potent mark on each and the national punk scene with rousing riots shaped as EPs, 2018 seeing Spit Your Dummy Out a romp of mischievous antics with the… Read More ›
The Outlines – House Of Thieves EP
Hearing rousing punk rock crafted with energy and imagination as it gets under the skin is no surprise for fans of UK outfit The Outlines but we suggest never to the rich intensity and creative drama which comes with their… Read More ›
The Briefs – Platinum Rats
As much as we have an ever ready appetite at The RR for all things punk from across the decades it is the 77’ eruption and the DIY irreverence it sparked which gets us most excited; lustfulness now ignited once… Read More ›
Tommy And The Commies – Here Come
Entangling the addictive hooks of Buzzcocks, the pop contagion of The Undertones, and the punk irreverence of The Cortinas with the early mod punk instincts of The Jam sounds like one rather tasty aural recipe; a mix which the imagination… Read More ›
Lucy And The Rats – Self Titled
There are some things which are simply bred for temptation, propositions instinctively natured to lure like sirens. Among their numbers is the debut album from Lucy And The Rats. Deceptively unassuming but one virulent contagion, the release is an irresistible… Read More ›
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