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Go Kick-Ass! is Cartridge Heart’s carefully-curated, region-spanning, annual compilation. The2025 edition is a massive double-disc set. It features all new songs from 40 bands from southernOntario, plus one from Montreal and one from Australia. Bands were solicited to submit unreleased material; some are premiering singles ahead of their fall releases, some have unearthed material from the vault…
Colorado’s melodic punk torchbearers Record Thieves return with All The Feels, the third single from their upcoming full-length album, Tragic Company, that is due out on September 26th via Thousand Islands Records and Bearded Punk Records. A centerpiece of Tragic Company, the track encapsulates the band’s evolution, razor-sharp yet melodic, unflinching yet hopeful. Clocking in at 17 songs, the…
During a pit stop while travelling between shows in 2023, Pinkshift found a huge fallen redwood tree, the trio lay down on the trunk staring up at the canopy of leaves from the trees around them. What followed is an experience vocalist Ashrita Kumar describes as almost psychedelic. They felt as if the trees were…
From the windswept, sheep-dotted cliffs of the Faroe Islands comes a band that are anything but pastoral. Joe & The Shitboys, self-described ‘queer vegan shitpunks’, have been raising hell, ruffling feathers, and flipping the script since their chaotic inception, and now they’ve unleashed their debut full length, Greatest Shits, via Alcopop! Records. The album is a ferocious compilation of…
Jersey’s Dribbler have released their new EP, Dribbler Is Cursed, on cassette via Bandcamp and through digital platforms via DN Records. Dribbler began writing and recording back in October 2023, however through technical mishaps, bad luck and ‘the curse’, the band lost the original recordings and almost called it quits. Dribbler Is Cursed features re-imagined versions of the lost tracks,…
Today, The Hives release their 7th studio album The Hives Forever Forever The Hives via Play It Again Sam. The LP turns it up to 11, incorporating a pop gloss into their thumping garage-rock bangers while capturing the magic of their performances that make them the “best live band on the planet” (SPIN). The record was produced by their longtime…
After a brief hiatus and a lineup reset, songwriter Avery Springer returns as Retirement Party with a a brand new EP, Nothing To Hear Without A Sound, that was tracked at Type One Studios with Simon Small. The four-song EP kicks off Retirement Party‘s ‘adult chapter’ that sees Avery Springer step fully into architect mode, writing and tracking everything but Sam Brown‘s…
The Radio Addicts are set to celebrate the launch of their debut vinyl EP, MMXXV, with an intimate release party at Wax And Beans in Bury, UK on Sunday, 30th November at 5pm. This exclusive event marks the official release of their MMXXV debut EP on vinyl which kicks off with their breakout debut single,…
Beth Seymour returned to music in a blaze of glory earlier this year after an extended break in the wake of coming out as transgender. Having released a string of memorable singles already in 2025, Seymour is now releasing her first album since 2021’s Tales of Suburban Angst, and the first to be released with…
I have been seriously lagging on this show review, but it was a great time and well-worth revisiting. It was a memorable night that spotlighted one of the great bands that was on the Toxic Shock label, and the man himself, Mr. Toxic Shock, Bill Sassenberger was there too! Characters has been the go-to place…