Category: Music News


  • 7 Questions With Spike Slawson (Spike & The Gimme Gimmes) For The Punk Rock Museumโ€™s 3rd Anniversaryย 

    Onย Saturday April 4thย The Punk Rock Museumย is celebrating its third anniversary the only way it knows how: with a loud, no-holds-barred parking lot show that will featureย Spike and the Gimme Gimmes,ย Kate Clover,ย XCOMM,ย River Rattsย andย The Whops. In honour of this occasion we were asked to put a few questions to the bands that are playing theย The Punk Rock…

  • Avem are a quartet of bird nerds who hail from the Idyllic countryside of Canada, the band have released their new single, Another Trumpet Flower Please My Good Sir, via streaming platforms and as a name your price download via Bandcamp. The track is taken from the bandโ€™s upcoming new album that is scheduled to…

  • The Molly Vulpyne Band formed in 2024, when what was meant to be โ€œjust one gigโ€ snowballed into recording an album and playing a rapid-fire run of festivals and gigs across the UK and Ireland. After releasing her solo EP,ย Amortise,ย in 2024, Dublin based songwriter Molly Vulpyne (Vulpynes) expanded her sound with a full band featuring…

  • Minneapolis, MNโ€™sย Ultrabombย have returned with their powerful new single, No Cap, that isย a melodic driving anthem built on soaring guitar lines. No Cap balances urgency and a hook-heavy punch with a chorus that hits with clarity and conviction, the song channels frustration with the modern noise cycle into something focused and forward-looking, less about shouting over…

  • Oakland, CAโ€™s Middle-Aged Queers, the beloved LGBTQ+ punk band known for their unapologetic sound and belligerently joyful live shows, have released their second single of the year, a spirited punk cover of Taylor Swiftโ€˜s Anti-Hero that is now available through streaming platforms. Anti-Hero will also be featured on Middle-Aged Queersโ€˜ forthcoming album, Greatest Hits, that…

  • The Woggles Reveal โ€œLove Tickโ€ From Upcoming โ€œStop & Take A Minuteโ€ Rarities Compilationย 

    Garage rockย stalwartsย The Wogglesย have kicked off their 2026 with the release of their brand-new digital single,ย Love Tick, that arrives alongside the official pre-order launch for their upcoming collection, Stop and Take A Minute, that will be released onย May 8thย viaย Wicked Cool Records. While Love Tick surges forward with fresh electricity,ย Stop and Take A Minuteย digs deep into The…

  • Brighton, UK duo Snake Eyes ave today released their self producedย debut album, Cash Rich, via Alcopop! Records, packed with lo-fi fuzzed out gems that race, soar, and stomp by turns, itโ€™s a collection of songs that have been bubbling away in the practice room and on the road, reduced down to their most concentrated form.…

  • Teenage Bottlerocket Reveal โ€œThe Invisible Manโ€ EPย 

    Laramie, WYโ€™sย Teenage Bottlerocketย are kicking off 2026 with the release of their new four song EP, The Invisible Man, this is now available through streaming platforms and on 7โ€ณ vinyl fromย Pirates Press Records. The four songs were recorded during the sessions for the bandโ€™s smash hit 2025 album,ย Ready To Roll, with each of the bandโ€™s three…

  • In 2026 UK punk will be celebrating 50 years. In 1976 the far right were growing strong. Politics was full of corruption. Newspapers spread lies and hate. Riots were common as huge sections of society felt marginalised and forgotten.ย The political and social background of 2026 shares many common features with the 1970s. Again we see…

  • Tamra Smith In Conversationย 

    Fifty years to the date of the original Rock Against Racism concerts, when The Fall played a pivotal, mercurial set that felt like history bending in real time, I suddenly found myself in a room with three former members of that same band. One of them, Una Baines, was now on stage with Poppycock. It…