PARANOID VISIONS – Re-Pressed Emotions 2XLP (FOAD/Urinal Vinyl 2020)
If one good thing has come of underground music in the year of prevailing lurgies, it is that forced inactivity has given some bands the time to take stock of …
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VULPYNES – US AGAINST THEM – CD/12” Vinyl EP (2020 FOAD records)
Squeals of feedback set the landscape for US AGAINST THEM and Vulpynes continue to develop as a compact but impetuous force of guitar noise. From what the ever-unreliable interwebs tell …
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PETER JONES – TO OLD TO DIE YOUNG – PARANOID VISIONS, PUNK ROCK AND ME (Rotator 2020)
At this point, there have been very few Irish punk books – the fragmented written history of it all is represented in print by the Hope Collective’s IN CONCERT book, …
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VULPYNES – DYE ME RED – limited edition 10″ (FOAD Records 2019)
Finally, Vulpynes returns with a second EP of primal snarl and noisy passion. Apparently these tracks have been sitting on the hotplate since late 2018 – meanwhile the band busied …
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STRIKNIËN DC – Dead in the Live Room CD (2019 FOAD RECORDS)
It’s feels strange to be reassessing archive material from the 1990s Dublin punk underground. These recordings are a quarter of a century old and at the time they were made, …
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THE LEE HARVEYS – Resistance is not Terrorism – coloured vinyl LP Special Edition Pack (FOAD Records 2019)
This record is an interesting proposition, a 12” EP of new material paired with a flipside of peer favourites as voted, suggested and harassed for inclusion via a kind of …
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VARIOUS ARTISTS – KARATE KLUB Dublin HC/Punk Compilation (Distroy Records 2018)
Although few and far between at this point, local compilations are always an education of sorts. From the band you’re sick of seeing to that band name you’ve seen on …
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VULPYNES – Vulpynes – CDEP ( Headcheck Records 2018 )
Vulpynes has been a name lurking ever increasingly on my radar – local gig bills and assorted online recommendation rants – until I eventually found myself under the same roof …
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THE NILZ – Kiss me, My Executioner (self released CD 2018)
In what can be construed as fitting move to represent equality in disfunction, the ubiquitous shot of Richard Ramirez that adorned 2016’s THE NILZ MADE ME DO IT is now …
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THE NUMBER ONES – ANOTHER SIDE OF THE NUMBER ONES 7” EP (Static Shock Records 2018)
Sporadic comes in many forms and The Number Ones, amongst other things, have sporadic down to a fine art with a gap of 3 ½ years since the release of …
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