THE DAMNED - Not Like Everybody Else : Νέα Κυκλοφορία Με Διασκευές

Δεν υπάρχουν πολλά άλμπουμ με διασκευές που αξίζουν πραγματικά τον χρόνο ή τα χρήματα. Αυτό το άλμπουμ των Damned, ωστόσο, ένα album αφιερωμ...

Billy Idol - "Dream Into It": His first album since 2014

Teeth, lips and peroxide; an MTV-ish 'party-on' video for I'm Still Dancing - on the face of it Billy Idol returns unchanged, r...

"Saviors": The Green Day's 14th album

Can a canonical punk trio stay interesting after its singer breaks 30,40, even 50? That is the question Billie Joe Armstrong - the Green Day...

Buzzcocks - "Nostalgia"

Back in 1978. Pete Shelley’s nostalgia “for an age yet to come” (“Nostalgia”, on “Love Bites”) caught rock music in an uncharacteristic forw...

The Saints - (I'm) Stranded (1976) [THE STORY OF THE SONG]

     Formed in Brisbane, Australia, in 1974, The Saints were contemporaries of the Ramones and the Sex Pistols—though blissfully ignorant th...

"End Of World": Public Image Limited's new release

Lydon at his tenderest, and also his most reactionary.      There is an episode of The Simpsons in which Moe Szyslak - the grouchy, c...

Green Day - Nimrod : 25th anniversary

     As Rob Cavallo - Green Day's producer from 1994's major-label breakthrough  Dookie (10 million global sales) until American Idi...

Throwing Muses: Όταν ροκάρουν οι γυναίκες

Οι Throwing Muses σχηματίστηκαν το 1981 στο Newport του Rhode Island με μέλη τρία κορίτσια (τις ετεροθαλείς αδελφές Kristin Hersh και Ta...

Lydia Lunch, μια εκκεντρική Νεοϋορκέζα μουσικός (...και όχι μόνο)

Η τραγουδίστρια, τραγουδοποιός, ηθοποιός και ποιήτρια Lydia Lunch (Lydia Koch) γεννήθηκε το 1959 στο Rochester της Νέας Υόρκης και θεωρήθηκε...

"Moments Of Madness": Hugh Cornwell’s new album

If Hugh Cornwell’s solo career has some­times looked like the stuff of cold, hard prag­matism — “I’ve never listened to anything The Strangl...

Hüsker Dü: the best punk of the eighties

" I started to wonder if we were better than  U2 ”, wrote singer Bob Mould, remembering  how Hüsker Dü exploded into 1985 on the roll  ...

"Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables" Dead Kennedys' debut studio album (1980)

The impact of Dead Kennedys’ debut album stretches so far and wide it’s barely calculable. It contains testimonial quotes from cross- genera...

Deviants, οι πρωτοπόροι του punk (;)

Οι Deviants ήταν ένα αγγλικό rock group με ψυχή του και ιδρυτή τον  Mick Farren, ο οποίος έχοντας ασχοληθεί με την συγγραφή άρθρων για το un...

"The Alchemist's Euphoria": Kasabian's new release

Middling reboot for Leicester’s indie-rock titans The sacking of frontman Tom Meighan for domestic assault left Kasabian without their voice...

ESSENTIAL ALBUMS: (#23): Pixies - "Surfer Rosa" (1988)

The Boston band Pixies (note: not ‘The’ Pixies, there is no article here) were responsible for a lot, not least the sound of more or less sc...

ESSENTIAL ALBUMS: (#18) : Ramones - "Ramones" (1976)

"Eliminate the unnecessary, and focus on the substance.” Drummer Tommy Ramone’s succinctly sums up no fuss attitude of the Ramones’ sel...

ESSENTIAL ALBUMS: (#4) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979)

Following their appearance on 1978's noted Factory Sample EP, financed by local television personality Tony Wilson, Joy Division opted ...

"Growing Up" - The Linda Lindas (ein junge Garage-Punk-Quartett)

Das junge Garage-Punk-Quartett hat klare Sicht auf die kaputten Strukturen der Gesamtscheiße. Süß, süß, süß und dann auch noch ein Katzencov...

Courtney Love: η ζωή της μέχρι το εμβληματικό "Live Through This"

Η Courtney Love γεννήθηκε με το όνομα Love Michelle Harrison τον Ιούλιο του 1965, κόρη του φανατικού θαυμαστή των Grateful Dead Hank Harris...

"Earthling": Eddie Vedder's new solo album

Two weeks short of his 57th birthday, Eddie Vedder is the very model of the middle-aged mixed-up kid. During early summer, he began recordin...