Ignitemares – South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom Smash Mouse Records are having somewhat of a busy 2021 and with Ignitemares and ‘San Junipero’ set for April, there doesn’t appear to be an endpoint. The label and the band in question are very much unwavering devotees to what inspired them. The…
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No Breakfast Goodbye – Nijmegen, The Netherlands No Breakfast Goodbye and ‘The Losers Club’ have just entered the year of “what now, but again” and that’s notable for more than one reason. Not only are the Dutch band now on their third publicly aired studio track to date, but it…
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Krang – Valasske Mezirici, Czech Republic It’s been a fast and turbulent time these past few years. Krang and Make Arcade Great Again are soon to crash through it all once more, this time assisted by both SBÄM and Sound Speed Records. The band’s fast, serrated, yet melodic and sardonically…
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Passionflower – Warrington, England, United Kingdom Passionflower and ‘Joel & Clementine’ are soon to arrive. The latter being yet another stop-over ahead of an eventual full-length from the prolific Warrington-based Post-Emo, Pop-Punk-adoring and early 2000’s Post-Hardcore-centric band. Passionflower, now three singles in, has been steadily and with great care unveiling what this…
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Burning Nickels – Red Deer, Alberta, Canada Ah, yes, Punk-Rock that you can sing-a-long with?! That’s not very Punk, is it? In the bin! I joke. Burning Nickels and the Cobwebs EP from Red Deer, Alberta would be inclined against such a sadly very common statement and general rhetoric. After…
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The Jacklights – Boston, Massachusetts, USA The line between what is considered Pop-Punk and Punk-Rock is a fine one. The Jacklights and ‘Winter’, if you had to specify where they sit on this spectrum, would probably reside somewhere in the middle. However, in reality, with music being down to preference…
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Gentleman’s Brawl – Leeds, England, United Kingdom Pop-Punk has become quite the varied canvas and infuser in its generation-old medium. Gentleman’s Brawl, ‘Roseblunt’ and ‘Black Tar’, a band from Leeds soon to release the respective latter-two titles as their latest, are a living, breathing example. The five-piece’s sound exists on…
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Reuther – Detroit, Michigan, USA Ah yes, the indomitable and ubiquitous presence of Pop-Punk. This where we find Reuther and Letting Go amongst a genre that like many offshoots of Punk, has morphed, reverted and held on. The genre often gets considerable shade, flak and disregard for a multitude of…
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Project Revise – Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom In the theme of prolific creativity, Worcestershire’s Project Revise and ‘Downside Up’ have rounded the former’s musical efforts this here 2020 to a close. Well, there is always time but I should think that’s that. Project Revise and their status within the contemporary…
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Passionflower – Warrington, England, United Kingdom Passionflower and ‘Neverland’ are soon to appear in the soundscape via both Warrington and the seemingly ubiquitous and undeniably indomitable force that is the legacy of the early-2000s Emo. As a creative outfit, Passionflower has been cathartically expressing since 2017. To date, the band…
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