Another worthy artifact from the ongoing preservation of the Paranoid Visions archives – I remember Halo Of Phlegm being mentioned in various fanzine interviews way back when as the title …
PARANOID VISIONS – HALO OF PHLEGM (The Vinyl Countdown Part 4 – Refreshed Exposures) (FOAD 2022) Read More
Fodder from Weird Feelings has been a long time coming. These recordings were released just after Xmas 2020 but date back to 2019 and a rehearsal space that is likely …
WEIRD FEELINGS – Unmake Yourself (Little Plastic Tapes 2020) Read More
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 …
VULPYNES – US AGAINST THEM – CD/12” Vinyl EP (2020 FOAD records) Read More
In a world of independent oddities, this is exactly how the humble 7” deserves to be delivered – high-concept, low-frill, electronic punk from the wonderfully named German duo I AM …
I AM THE FLY – I AM THE FLY 7” EP (not on label 2020) Read More
1998 was a good year in the long history of the Vandals with the release of HITLER BAD, VANDALS GOOD on Nitro Records – Although this was a very different …
From the archives – Interview with Joe Escalante and Warren Fitzgerald of THE VANDALS (originally appeared in NOSEBLEED issue 18 – Feb 1999) Read More
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 …
VULPYNES – DYE ME RED – limited edition 10″ (FOAD Records 2019) Read More
There are few albums as ingrained in my head as GHOSTOWN, and while I thought it would be an easy one to rattle off a few words about, the act …
RADIATORS – GHOSTOWN 40th Anniversary Reissue – Double CD (Chiswick Records 2019) Read More
Albums embodying, expressing or otherwise loosely interpreting fluctuations in mental health are certainly not unusual – Channeling brain turbulence through any form of art is a timeworn tradition, no doubt …
PETE JOHNSON – Screwball – CD (self released/not on label 2019) Read More
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 …
THE LEE HARVEYS – Resistance is not Terrorism – coloured vinyl LP Special Edition Pack (FOAD Records 2019) Read More
Deadlamb Records seems to have been lurking in the background for some time, with a steady output of Irish and international punk product including Nomatrix, Jobseekers, Disturbance, Greenland Whalefishers, Plan …
VARIOUS – LAMPAIGN – IRELAND – Irish Punk Compilation LP (Deadlamb Records 2019) Read More
When ROAD TO RUIN was released in September 1978, it was the first of many watershed moments for the Ramones. Where the first 3 albums were a natural progression of …
RAMONES – Road to Ruin – 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Rhino 2018) Read More
Pożoga describes itself as an “international punk consortium” – With lyrics provided in Spanish, Polish and English, I’m guessing that’s the international make-up of the band… Whatever the configuration, Pożoga’s …
POŻOGA – Pożoga 7” EP (Distroy Records/multi-label release 2018) Read More
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 …
VARIOUS ARTISTS – KARATE KLUB Dublin HC/Punk Compilation (Distroy Records 2018) Read More
The last time The Ex issued a non-collaborative album, it was the sonic & political barrage of CATCH MY SHOE in 2011. Cathartic in its colliding rhythms and subtle in …
THE EX – 27 Passports (Ex Records 2018) Read More
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 …
VULPYNES – Vulpynes – CDEP ( Headcheck Records 2018 ) Read More
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 …
THE NILZ – Kiss me, My Executioner (self released CD 2018) Read More
Turbonegro has been lurking so long that it’s hard to believe this is only album number 9. The intoxicating brew of releases that straddled their first break-up seems like a …
TURBONEGRO – ROCKNROLL MACHINE (2018 Burger Records) Read More
This is the limited edition vinyl release of FEELER, an album that was technically launched in early December 2017. Some manner of sleeve manufacturing woe held the physical product to …
ALIEN SHE – FEELER ltd edition 12” Green Vinyl (Art For Blind Records 2018) Read More
In 2016, OUTCASTS BY CHOICE garnered much praise and adulation as it bounced around various film festivals globally. Film Ireland described it as “a labour of love, produced on a …
OUTCASTS BY CHOICE – DVD (2017 LOUDfastLOUD.com) Read More
This is the first new studio material from Slice Of Life since 2015’s excellent LOVE AND A LAMP POST. After 3 years, I was hoping there would be more than …
STEVE IGNORANT’S SLICE OF LIFE – JUST ANOTHER – EP (Harbinger Sound 2017) Read More