London-based feminist punk rockers YAKKIE have shared ‘Lean Out’ as a Pay What You Want track on Bandcamp, with all money raised being donated to striking teaching assistants at Richard Cobden school in North London. Confirming the track is a tribute to Dawn Foster and the global women’s strike, vocalist Janey Starling (also the founding…
Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter Haley Heynderickx follows up 2018’s sublime ‘I Need to Start a Garden’ with ‘Seed of a Seed’, an album that – you can see this from the title – again takes inspiration from nature and our surroundings. It’s a record that Haley says honours everything from flowers and friends to forests and…
‘An I LIKE TRAINS record doesn’t really start to take shape until there’s a theme’, says the group’s vocalist and lyricist David Martin. ‘That point came following Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks in 2013.’ The band’s new album ‘KOMPROMAT’ (the Russian term for compromising political material) finds the Leeds-based five-piece tackling current affairs and the amount…
Mush’s new album ‘3D Routine’ has already received praise from the likes of DIY, Louder than War, The Line of Best Fit and seen the band played on shows on 6 Music, Radio 1 and Radio X. It comes ahead of a tour with Roxy Girls. Tackling many of the issues we’re facing as a…
Blackpool’s political punks Those Fucking Snowflakes make their views of the current state of the world clear with ‘Stop Being Dickheads to Each Other’. Formed by members of Dinosaurs Are Shit Dragons, Oceans Over Alderaan, and Goonies Never Say Die, the band’s sound fits somewhere between the abrasive yet melodic nature of Girl Band and…
yr friends is Alexei Berrow from Johnny Foreigner’s solo project. The band name and song titles are all displayed in lower case – a perfect example of the more uncluttered and acoustic-based sound that features on this Bandcamp EP (although it does drive spellcheck up the wall…). Throughout the five tracks, Lex gets to offer…
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