FURR “It’s Got Two R’s. That’s It”

NOFX – ‘First Ditch Effort’

It’s taken Fat Mike thirty years to get to this point. “I don’t know who this person is, but I’ve seen this face before, a face I don’t want to face,” he mumbles “I don’t think I like me anymore”. As he reels off the reasons he

Mouses – ‘The Mouses Album’

Duos are definitely seeing a revival in today’s scene. Less members means less overheads, less gear and less potential band member drama; but just plug yourself into a few pedals, turn up the gain and get your drummer to smash those skins and you’ll be making as much

LIVE: PUP / Solids / Shit Present @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

It’s coming towards the end of PUP’s set at the Brudenell and another stage-diver careens headlong into the venue’s floor. Frontman Steven Babcock’s seen this all before, so he pulls no punches. “Hey guys,” he says in between songs, “you’re really into crowd-surfing, but you fucking suck at it.

Against Me! – ‘Shape Shift With Me’

“I wanna be more real than all the others,” scowls Laura Jane Grace on ‘Delicate, Petite & Other Things I’ll Never Be’, “I wanna be so real, you can see the difference!”. If there ever was a person who had a claim in punk rock on being

The Decoy – ‘Avalon’

First impressions are tough and you only get one. After listening to ‘Avalon’ – the debut album from Welsh rockers The Decoy – a fair few few times, I’m still struggling to pin down just what exactly these guys are all about. Jumping between mammoth Incubus style choruses and

Doe – ‘Some Things Last Longer Than You’

Above a wall of guitars, crashing drums and waves of white noise, Doe’s primary vocalist and guitarist Nicola Leel growls “If I could, I’d kick you in the face, and I’d feel better!”. Coming smack bang in the bridge of ‘No 1’, the opening track on Doe’s

Kamikaze Girls – ‘Sad’

The cult of rock and roll is an easily accessible outlet for cool, open to anyone who wants to fit in, anyone who feels different, a place where you can belong and be accepted. Yet, for all its openness and honesty, there are still taboo subjects that rock refuses

Johnny Foreigner – ‘Mono No Aware’

It’s rare in this bare bones music scene to come across a band still going strong from the late noughties glut of indie-punk weirdness. The wayside ditches in the age of austerity have claimed many bands that combined indie hooks and punk weirdness, burnt bright, but flickered out a

Slaughter Beach, Dog stream new track ‘Monsters’

Jake Ewald’s having a busy year. Instead of simply resting on his laurels after the release of Modern Baseball’s ‘Holy Ghost’, the Philadelphia guitarist’s side project Slaughter Beach, Dog are also releasing their debut album ‘Welcome’ on the 30th of September through Lame-O-Records. Hot on the heels of this announcement