If you’ve been living in a cave for the last few weeks then the highly hyped Blink 182 reunion might come as a surprise. We really don’t have much time to explain what went on, so just follow the previous link if you want more details. What’s important though is that, what’s possibly, the most [...]
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Album name: You Look Faster When You Are Young Artist name: Hot Gossip Genre: Punk Rock? Indie? I don’t know. Released: March 2009 Label: Ghost Records ZME Rating: 3/10 Website: myspace.com/hotgossip I feel a bit guilty for doing this review. Mostly because it’s picking on a very easy target, and also because I listened to it in the same week I heard [...]
Friday, March 13, 2009
Recorded: September 1979 / Genre: Punk rock, post punk / ZME Rating: 7/10 Criminally underrated or obscenely overrated? Regardless of your answer, punk outfit The Slits left a remarkable legacy in their wake. Precisely what their legacy represents is up for discussion more now than ever as 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of their debut Cut. [...]
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Sad news for all rock’n'roll fans around the world. Ron Asheton, one of the original founding fathers and guitarist/bassist of the highly influential The Stooges, was found earlier today in his home dead. He was 60. Apparently, however, he was already dead for a few days now, when he was found by the police, after [...]
Friday, November 21, 2008
No, Jay Reatard is far from being a retard. He’s quite brilliant actually, as far as Memphis garage-punk goes. The video bellow is for “See/Saw,” the first A-Side in the Matador Singles ‘08 series, and, as incredible as it might sound, this is really Jay’s first ever music video. We trust Matador Records enough to take [...]
Friday, November 7, 2008
Since The Foos are currently on a undetermined hiatus, Dave Grohl must be getting bored and all that. It’s hard for a musician to entrap creativity inside him, and seeing how Dave’s one of the finest artists in the contemporary rock scene, it’s understandable why we can’t just hang it up for too long. Apparently, he [...]
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
With all this political mambo jambo flying around lately everywhere, Florida punkers Against Me! couldn’t have picked a better time to exist. In their latest video for “Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart” Against Me frontman, Tom Gabel duets with Tegan Rain Quin, from the sister act Tegan and Sara, on a black [...]
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The post-punk New Yorkers of Les Savy Fav are set to go on tour this fall, that’s sure to delight their fans around the country, although the dates are stretched quite thinly. More dates, however, are sure to come up in time. Just be patient, and the band might just come to a city near [...]
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Glasgow’s favorite post-punk revivalists, Franz Ferdinand, have a new album in stored for us, with recordings well underway since 2007, with an expected released out of January 2009. A bit of a long wait, but I’m confident it will end up alright, after all you don’t rush greatness *cough. Anyway, Franz have released a new [...]
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Yesterday brought some sad news, folks. Our favorite post punkers, the Nashville quartet Be Your Own Pet just announced through a press release on their MySpace blog, that the band will officially disband soon. “To all of our fans, we are sad to bring you the news that our upcoming shows in the UK are going [...]
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