Album Review: Spunk Volcano and the Eruptions – Double Bastard

Album Review: Spunk Volcano and the Eruptions – Double Bastard

SVATE return with their biggest and boldest statement yet, the conjoined two-headed mutant, ‘Double Bastard’. Twenty-five musical cuts of Saturday night kebab meat for Sunday morning breakfast all lovingly dolloped on a plastic plate in a dog eared high rise...
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Album Review: The Dollyrots – Daydream Explosion

Album Review: The Dollyrots – Daydream Explosion

Power Pop Punksters The Dollyrots return with their Uber catchy album ‘Daydream Explosion’. It kicks, kisses and thrashes up and down the college corridors of grey genre lockers adding a splash of colour with each impact. Opener ‘Animal’ has that...
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Album Review: The Hip Priests – Stand For Nothing

Album Review: The Hip Priests – Stand For Nothing

At Your Service Aaahhh…. Shit Island, land of the free, a home away from home, time to relax, take the weight off, smell all the comforting smells and soak up the erm…shit. Enough holiday romancing my friends and time to...
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Album Review: Phil Manzanera ‎– Diamond Head

Album Review: Phil Manzanera ‎– Diamond Head

Phil Manzanera,”Diamond Head” (Voiceprint)- The winter of 1974 found Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera taking a well earned break from his activities with the band to put together his first solo album. “Diamond Head” was the result an...
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Album Review: Sum 41 – Order In Decline

Album Review: Sum 41 – Order In Decline

It’s quite hard to believe that Sum 41 have been with us as a band for 23 years. Throughout their career there have been some extreme lows but also incredible highs. One thing that has remained a constant is the...
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Album Review: 3Teeth – Metawar

Album Review: 3Teeth – Metawar

Mightily Toothsome Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Once upon a time I woke up feeling a little under the weather, they say that an Affluenza bug is doing the rounds and people are hyper just thinking about it....
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Album Review: Crown The Empire – Sudden Sky

Album Review: Crown The Empire – Sudden Sky

Hardcore outfit Crown The Empire return with their fourth record, three years after the release of their last effort. Their last album Retrograde was what some considered a high point in their career so far, therefore the pressure is on...
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Single Review: Black Anchors – Heart Attack

Single Review: Black Anchors – Heart Attack

Combining the classic punk sensibilities of bands like Hot Water Music with the dynamics you see in modern metalcore, Black Anchors are back with a new single, the second from their forthcoming E.P titled “DIYFS.” “Heart Attack” will have the...
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Album Review: Albert Castiglia – Masterpiece

Album Review: Albert Castiglia – Masterpiece

Albert Castiglia,”Masterpiece” (Gulf Coast Records)- Florida based bluesman Albert Castiglia paid his dues as a member of the late great Junior Wells’ backing band and is now firmly established as one of the finest singer-guitarists operating...
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Album Review: Bruce Springsteen – ‘Western Stars’

Album Review: Bruce Springsteen – ‘Western Stars’

Bruce Springsteen,”Western Stars” (Columbia Records)- The release of a new Bruce Springsteen album may no longer be the major cultural event that it once was during the great man’s creative heyday in the seventies and eighties but he can stil...
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