punk
DVD: Here to Be Heard - The Story of the SlitsSaturday, 02 June 2018
Here to be Heard, made by US film-maker and punk rocker William E Badgley, has such a juicy, pertinent story to tell that it never palls. Over 84 minutes, contemporary interviews and old footage build a two act drama that reveals The Slits to be one... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Burning BritainSunday, 06 May 2018
In early March 1980, the weekly music paper Sounds dedicated their front cover to “the new face of punk” with a photograph of Stinky Turner, the singer of The Cockney Rejects. What had, in 1977, been widely interpreted as a challenge to musical... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: New York DollsSunday, 22 April 2018
Playing Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom on 8 September 1974, the New York Dolls opened their first set of the evening with three cover versions. Muddy Waters’ “Hoochie Coochie Man” was followed by The Shangri-Las’ “(Give Him a) Great Big Kiss” and... Read more... |
10 Questions for Musician Jeremy Cunningham of The LevellersThursday, 12 April 2018
Jeremy Cunningham (b.1965) is bass player and a founding member of The Levellers, as well as being a visual artist in his own right. During the 1990s The Levellers, and most especially their 1991 album Levelling the Land, became a phenomenon. The... Read more... |
CD: The Damned - Evil SpiritsWednesday, 04 April 2018
The Damned may very well be the last men standing from the first wave of UK punk – albeit with only Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible still there from the original line-up – but with their new disc they haven’t even thought of resting on their... Read more... |
CD: Napalm Death - Coded Smears and More Uncommon SlursWednesday, 28 March 2018
Sometimes music reaches a point beyond which there's no point in going. Thus it is with Napalm Death who, 30 or so years ago, hit on a formula for furious noise generation, and though they've shifted line-ups many times since then, continue to make... Read more... |
CD: The Breeders - All NerveWednesday, 28 February 2018
For some a lack of development is failure; not for Kim Deal. Her songwriting and voice have influenced hordes of indie bands from the Eighties until now – indeed the “angular” clang and arch drawl of bands indebted to Pixies, and The Breeders, her... Read more... |
CD: Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons - The Age of AbsurdityMonday, 15 January 2018
Many hard rock aficionados say that Motörhead’s greatest work was all with the “classic” line-up of Lemmy, drummer Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor and guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke (who died last week aged only 67 - this review was written before that... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: To the Outside of EverythingSunday, 07 January 2018
Now that the 40th anniversaries of 1976 and 1977 as the years which birthed punk rock have themselves become history, surveyors of rock’s rich tapestry will inevitably turn to what came next. The year 1978 and what followed punk are easy targets and... Read more... |
CD: Radar Men from the Moon - Subversive III: De Spelende MensTuesday, 02 January 2018
Eindhoven art punks Radar Men from the Moon have been around since 2010 with a sound that has knitted together space rock, strange electronics and shoegaze flavours with a psychedelic view point. Subversive III: De Spelende Mens, however, is a... Read more... |
Albums of the Year 2017: Idles - BrutalismWednesday, 13 December 2017
In March, Bristol’s Idles drove up and down the country, leaving painfully small quantities of their debut album Brutalism in each independent record shop they went into. The lucky among us who managed to get a first-pressing copy of the beautifully... Read more... |
Inside Pussy Riot, Saatchi Gallery review - an immersive misfireWednesday, 29 November 2017
You say you want a revolution? Good luck locating one amid the tonally muddled Inside Pussy Riot. The immersive production from Les Enfants Terribles takes audiences on a promenade-style journey through the terrifyingly true story of Nadya... Read more... |
