Placebo have announced a new four disc deluxe collection, This Search For Meaning, for release on 12th September via SO Recordings. The deluxe six-panel digipak features their acclaimed new documentary This Search For Meaning on blu-ray and DVD, plus two audio CDs of This Is What You Wanted – Live In Mexico City, as well as a bonus track edition…

Kicking off with seductive guitar and pounding drums, that’s how SALVIA gets you going with aptly named new single ‘Adrenaline’. Blending dark wave and gothic indie with shoegazy postpunk, it’s the atmospheric reverb sound of The Cure or Bauhaus filtering through. SALVIA is the project of Ukrainian-born Nicole Selivan, who began collaborating with members of The Haunted Youth after fleeing the…

Not sure if the date of release for this stinging EP by The Infamous Stiffs was by design or by coincidence. Independence Day for most might have been a celebration of the past, but this is an era of dictatorship for the unwitting I’m afraid, so to bring this band’s venom filled songs out on…

Las Vegas teen punks The Dollheads have officially joined Fat Mike‘s Bottles To The Ground imprint and have announced that they will be releasing their debut full length, ADOL – ESSENCE, on August 22nd, the band have also announced that they will be releasing the album’s lead single, Burger King Is Hiring, on July 25th.…

Stratus, the veteran hardcore band from Šibenik, Croatia, originally formed in the early ‘90s and reactivated in 2020, have unleashed their most authentic and punishing material yet. Titled Hard Core, the new album is a powerful statement of intent—a no-compromise fusion of punk and metal that delivers 10 excellent tracks Now featuring original members Tomi,…

After more than three decades of two-tone swagger, punk attitude, and brass-blasted joy, Montreal’s beloved ska lifers The Planet Smashers return with “Meet Me On The Dancefloor,” the first single from their forthcoming tenth studio album, On the Dancefloor. Dropping July 11 alongside an irresistible music video, the single kicks off pre-orders for the album, which lands…

California’s The Wind-Ups have returned with their third album, Confection, that contains eleven blistering tracks of Summery lo-fi Sugar Punk à la Ramones and Spits. Confection is a cotton candy Rock ’n Roll blitzkrieg the was recorded to tape by frontman Jake Sprecher. The anxious and snarling energy of the lead off track A Fine Pink…

Austin, TX’s The Oxys are intent on wrangling fans out of their world weary despondency with the news that their new studio album, Casting Pearls Before Swine, will be released on September 19th via Cleopatra Records. The Oxys will also be on tour in the US with Quinn The Brain on The Art Of Disruption Tour…