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Tag Archives: punk rock
Album review: RICHIE RAMONE – Live To Tell
Cargo/Livewire [Release date 21.04.23] If you think of the famed Ramones logo, amongst the four names around the outside you wouldn’t find Richie, however, a Ramone he was, on drumming duty between 1983 and 1987. In fact, the story is … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Live To Tell, pop rock, punk pop, punk rock, review, Richie Ramone, rock 'n' roll, The Ramones
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Album review: TOXIC REASONS – Reissues
Kill By Remote Control, Within These Walls, Bullets For You, In The House Of God, No Peace In Our Time, God Bless America Audio Platter [Release date 21.10.22] Formed in Dayton, Ohio, USA, in 1979, Toxic Reasons were a punk … Continue reading
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Tagged albums, Audio Platter, best of, Hardcore, punk, punk rock, reissue, review, ska, Toxic Reasons
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Album review: THE VIBRATORS – The Albums 1985-1990
Captain Oi!/Cherry Red One of the finest bands of the original punk era, the early years of The Vibrators have already been comprehensively collected by Cherry Red in two previous box sets. Their commercially successful years were well behind them … Continue reading
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Tagged box set, Cherry Red Records, Oi!, punk, punk rock, reissue, review, The Albums 1985-1990, The Vibrators
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Album review: NAKED RAYGUN – Reissues
Audio Platter / Plastic Head Chicago punk band Naked Raygun formed in 1980 and their style strongly dipped into post punk and hardcore. They have been an influence on the likes of Dave Grohl and Blink192, and they have toured … Continue reading
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Tagged All Rise, Jettison, Naked Raygun, punk rock, punkm, reissues, Review. album, Throb Throb
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Book review: Noise Damage by James Kennedy
Eye Books [Publication date 18.10.20] I’ve not just got a passing interest in rock autobiographies. I positively devour them. Pretty much anyone I admire who puts one out these days will tend to end up on my reading list sharpish. … Continue reading
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Tagged book, indie, James Kennedy, memoir, music, Noise Damage, punk rock, review, rock
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Album review: ANGELIC UPSTARTS – The Albums 1979-82
Captain Oi!/Cherry Red [Release date 27.04.18] It’s quite fitting that a Cherry Red label are releasing this box set of the first five Angelic Upstarts albums, as it was their Anagram Records imprint that released the faultless “Angel Dust” collection … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Captain Oi!, Cherry Red, Mensi, punk, punk rock, review, The Albums 1979-82, the Angelic Upstarts
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Album review: DAMN VANDALS – Rocket Out Of London
[Release date 07.04.14] Damn Vandals are cultivating a sound that is hard to ignore. The band’s urgent take on fuzzed up punk-tinged stoner rock makes you sit up and take notice. Chuck in a dominating vocal delivery with shoutey hints … Continue reading
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Tagged album, DAMN VANDALS, punk rock, review, Rocket Out Of London, stoner rock
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