Best known for the classic 1978 debut album ‘Do It Dog Style’, as well as supporting the Sex Pistols at their infamous Manchester Free Trade Hall gig in 1976, Manchester proto-punk legends Slaughter And the Dogs are back with a brand new album ‘White Heat’ this month. Still featuring founder members Mick Rossi and Howard Bates, the album features guest appearances from The Cult’s Billy Duffy and Mott The Hoople legend Morgan Fisher.
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Do you feel that life has you increasingly running just to keep up, but getting nowhere, endlessly repeating the same routines day in day out but never moving forward? Well, that’s the question being asked by one of our favourite power pop progenitors on this, his second standalone release of the year…
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Armed with an uncompromising DIY spirit, Ohio thrash upstarts Thorns have skipped the industry queue entirely — building their own studio, self-recording and self-releasing two albums and multiple singles and rallying a worldwide following in under a year. Now they are back, ‘Ready To Strike’ with a new four song EP.
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Hailing from Dortmund, Germany, three-piece Daily Thompson have a passion for the grunge and alt-rock sound of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. No surprise then that new album ‘Glue’ was recorded in Seattle with American producer Tony Reed.
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There is something gloriously unhinged about a Wednesday 13 show. It is part horror movie, part punk-rock cabaret and part sweaty bar-room exorcism—and at Newport’s Corn Exchange, the former Murderdolls man delivered precisely the kind of beautifully deranged entertainment the occasion demanded.
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