Melvins return to UK and Europe
Melvins return to the UK and Europe for a run of tour dates this June and July. Their latest album – Pinkus Abortion Technician – will be released on vinyl [...]
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Final details on Poly Styrene biography released
Publishers Omnibus have just released the final details on Dayglo: The Poly Styrene Story, scheduled for publication on 28th March. The title is a collaboration between [...]
Desperate Journalist are In Search of the Miraculous
Desperate Journalist have announced a new album, In Search of the Miraculous, for 22 February 2019. The ten track album “contains love songs, anti-love songs and other [...]
Sleevenotes: September’s vinyl news
Bauhaus release The Bela Session via Leaving Records on 23rd November. The 5 track EP features tracks recorded at the band’s very first studio session. 1. “Bela [...]
My Kind of Town: Lunar Sounds on Leeds
“In space, no-one can hear you scream.” So the tagline goes anyway. But we can dismiss that claim as the work of those so-called ‘experts’ we keep [...]
Alkaline Trio – Is This Thing Cursed?
Always the sullen-looking guys hanging out on the fringe of the party while the likes of Blink-182 and Green Day frolicked in the pool, Alkaline Trio brought a downtrodden [...]
Dave Davies offers unreleased material on ‘Decade’
Kinks guitarist Dave Davies releases a new 13-track collection of previously unreleased recordings, Decade, on 12th October via Red River Entertainment/BFD. Decade includes [...]
Sleevenotes: August’s vinyl news
Bikini Kill re-issue their Singles compilation for the first time on vinyl on 25 September. It can be ordered direct from the Bikini Kill website. Daughters – the [...]
Cherry Red explore UK power pop and new wave scene
Cherry Red has announced a 3CD “power pop and new wave” set – Harmony In My Head – for release on 26th October. From the press release: “New [...]
The Kinks celebrate 50 years of ‘… Are The Village Green Preservation Society’
The Kinks are to release a 50th anniversary edition of The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society via BMG on 26th October. The set includes previously unreleased [...]
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