Category: Music News
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After The Astronaut is a Butthole Surfers album that was supposed to come out in 1998 but was, at the last minute, pulled from the release schedule because it wasn’t “commercial” enough, it is now finally seeing the light of day via Sunset Boulevard Records, allowing the musical provocateurs to have the last laugh. The mythical, shelved…
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The brand new multi-venue festival Loud & Clear have announce the first wave of acts for their inaugural year, including their headliner and seven other names from the bill. The festival will be held on the 21st November across Liverpool, UK’s vibrant The Baltic Triangle district utilising local independent venues Camp & Furnace, Lost Art, and 24 Kitchen Street. Headlining the…
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Montreal’s Taxi Girls have arrived with Static, their debut full-length that is now available via Stomp Records in North America and Wild Honey Records (Europe). If the first two singles introduced the band, Static is where the full picture develops. Across ten tracks, Taxi Girls pull together giant hooks, sharp songwriting, dual-vocal chemistry, and a…
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RAT BOY have released their new full length, CRASH!, via Hellcat Records, the Essex gang of four collaborated with Tim Armstrong (Rancid / Transplants / Operation Ivy) for CRASH! Pulling back the curtain on their usual humor-coated lyrics, RAT BOY locked in on these 18 tracks. Recorded in singer-songwriter Suzi Quatro‘s garden, and co-produced by frontman Jordan Cardy and drummer…
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Australia’s The Cloverhearts have released their new full length, Germaniac!, that is now available through streaming platforms and Bandcamp and on CD and vinyl via SBÄM Records, the album fuses upbeat, angst-driven rock with whimsical tales of love and loss, which are delivered via roaring bagpipe anthems and twisted tin-whistle earworms. The Cloverhearts are currently…
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Austin TX’s Dead Strong have released their debut full-length, 147 Days, that delivers a focused, ground-level document of political volatility, written in real time during the first 100 days of the current US administration. The album leans into aggressive, dark, lyric-driven tracks that refuse partisan comfort and speak from inside the pressure cooker. Dead Strong cuts out corporate…
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When a band comes into your life that is as good as Dead Pioneers and they are set to release their third album, well you just have to be at the front of the queue to listen and reflect on it, don’t you?, well we at The Punk Site are on it. Wagon Burner comes…
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As in any other scene, singer-songwriter music is often hit or miss, with many artists delivering some of
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When Sincere Engineer entered the studio to begin recording their fourth full-length, they were already building on a foundation primed for success. Tracking the record entirely at Chicago’s Electrical Audio, the studio of the late Steve Albini and the origin of hundreds of revered independent releases, the band tapped into a space synonymous with unfiltered artistry.…
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“We write a song, a year later it’s more relevant than the day we wrote it. That keeps happening, and to be honest, it fills me with dismay.” Backstage at the Camden Underworld, minutes before his band Dead Pioneers take the stage and devastate a capacity crowd with all the pain, power and primal energy…