Album Review: Frank Turner & NOFX – West Coat vs Wessex

The two punks cover each other’s songs on one of the best splits you’ll get this year. Cover LPs aren’t a new invention, but how great is a split LP of artists that both adore each other covering each other’s songs?! Due for release via Fat Mike’s own Fat Wreck Chords label this Friday, the project…

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Album Review: Neck Deep – All Distortions Are Intentional

Wrexham pop-punk giants Neck Deep are back with a stellar fourth record.  Producted by Grammy nominated A-list producer Matt Squire (Panic! At The Disco, Underøath, Ariana Grande, One Direction), was created by the band and producer being tucked away at world famous residential studio Monnow Valley, in the gorgeous but remote Wye Valley in the…

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Album Review: Margo Price – That’s How Rumors Get Started

This strong contender for record of the year has all the makings of becoming a favorite in your record collection. Produced by longtime friend Sturgill Simpson (co-produced by Margo and David Ferguson), the LP marks Price’s debut for Loma Vista Recordings, and whether she’s singing of motherhood or the mythologies of stardom, Nashville gentrification or…

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Album Review: Boston Manor – GLUE

Boston Manor push the boundaries with their new release GLUE.  Out this Friday, 1 May 2020, via Pure Noise Records, GLUE sees Blackpool rockers Boston Manor once again share a record that fuzzes out the lines between what some people believe rock should or shouldn’t be. GLUE is intriguing, it’s messy in the best sense and it is…

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Album Review: The Used – Heartwork

For their new record, The Used enlisted some high-profile friends and delivered a record we won’t stop playing.  This Friday, Utah emo icons The Used are dropping their new album Heartwork via Big Noise/Hassle Records. In the 16-track piece Bert McCracken and band examine their own mortality, as well as life itself and the full spectrum of…

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Album Review: All Time Low – Wake Up, Sunshine

Baltimore quartet All Time Low have delivered the record we all needed. On their new album Wake Up, Sunshine, the band have taken everything that was great about their previous records and combined it into one strong release. Being lifelong friends and bandmates, Alex, Jack, Zack and Rian brought together everything they learned over the years,…

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Album Review: Vukovi – Fall Better

Vukovi have dropped their sophomore album and Fall Better is everything that’s great about Scottish rock music.  Glasgow’s high-energy rock duo are back with the release of their second record Fall Better, released Friday via VKVI Records. Produced by Bruce Rintoul – in whose spare bedroom Janine recorded some of her vocals – Fall Better is pop-infused rock that promises to get…

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Album Review: Beach Slang – The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City

Philly punk rock outfit Beach Slang are kicking 2020 off with a bang thanks to The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City.  Released this Friday, 10 January 2020, rock and roll is back and we are here for it. This year is looking to be one of the strongest for rock music in a long time and…

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Our most listened-to new records of 2019

Ah another year-end list, you didn’t ask for it but here’s the new releases we couldn’t stop listening to this year.  As we’re about to end another trip around the sun, we wanted to share some of the records put out this year that we thought were fantastic, each in their own way. No, this…

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Album Review: Miranda Lambert – Wildcard

Miranda Lambert once again delivers a record every girl can fall in love with. Country music’s kick-ass superstar Miranda Lambert is releasing her new record Wildcard on 1 November via Sony. It marks her first collaboration with producer Jay Joyce and sees her revealing a gentler, more folk side of her music, never losing her signature wit…

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