Post-Punk

The Psychedelic Furs are truly back and better than ever as they tour their first studio album since 1991, "Made of Rain". Last week the band filled Rock City with a set promising to leave fans with their ears ringing with a selection of hit singles from their seven...

After seeing Shame perform in the grandeur of Brockwell park in London over the summer, the idea of the band in such a small venue as Rough Trade was too good an opportunity to miss. The intimacy of Rough Trade felt as though we were in Shame’s attic bedroom....

IDLES have created more of their trademark energetic post-punk that feels part of a unified vision, but all that chest-beating can leave it's bruises....

Myron Winter-Brownhill reflects on Fontaines D.C.'s tempestuous journey from humble Irish beginnings to vital players in the millenial post-punk revival, and the culminating sophomore full-length, A Hero’s Death....

Upon first listen, Arms Around a Vision is all too easily dismissible. Pleasant enough, the overwhelmingly similarities track-to-track leave it undistinguishable as a work of it’s own. It’s only on closer inspection that this album truly comes to life. The opening track ‘Reticence’ opens with promise. A slow-burning, hurtling...

Acts like Swans come few and far between. Since reforming in 2010 they achieved the unexpected and managed to produce, and perform, music which rivaled that of any modern peer. Almost unique in their ability to remain reflexive, innovative and sincerely driven, it’s little surprise that they are unique in their live shows. Neither...

Here’s the thing. Ian McCullough was the older brother that I never had. Lyrics on the influential early 1980s post-punk albums, ‘Crocodiles’ and ‘Heaven Up Here’, guided me through university, and introduced me to the ways of big city life. London in my case, rather than Liverpool or Manchester....