Podcast special: Palm Reader interview
Palm Reader have a special place in our hearts. They are a world class band with three tremendous albums to their name, the most recent being 2019’s Album of the Year for This Decay.
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Review: Problem Daughter – Grow Up Trash
Real is an overplayed card in punk rock. Its very beginnings were drenched in authenticity before authenticity became a thing, and now it’s a prerequisite, a harbinger of credibility.
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Review: Black Coast – Ill Minds Vol II
For a few years now something exciting has been brewing in Stoke-on-Trent. Fuelled by chainsaw guitars, pounding rhythms and raw, spat, aggressive vocals, that something is Black Coast.
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Live report: ‘68 and Palm Reader – two gigs, one night, zero fucks
When it comes to nightmare scenarios for your common or garden gig-goer, few are as frustrating as two of your favourite bands playing in your city on the same night… but on different bills at different venues.
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Review: Body Void – You Will Know The Fear You Forced Upon Us
Fascism is so hot right now. Enabled by the polished mask of the alt-right, mankind’s most despicable belief system is back, back, back.
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The Decayist 020: Nirvana – In Utero
Recommending music to your pals is one of the great pleasures of being a fan. Sometimes it’s to show off. Sometimes it’s about broadening horizons. And sometimes it’s plugging a gap that is, frankly, embarrassing.
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Review: Venom Prison – Samsara
On Trivium’s most recent tour of the UK their fans were warmed up by the ferocity of Venom Prison, the fiery fun of Power Trip and the focus of Code Orange.
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Playlist: TD0319
For our third Spotify playlist of 2019 we have a collection of oldish, newish, and just plain goodish.
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Review: While She Sleeps – SO WHAT?
It’s been in my mind for a while now that there will eventually be a While She Sleeps record that I don’t like.
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Review: FTR – Manners
There are some styles of alternative music that make a virtue of monotony. To label them dull might seem a curious criticism.
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Live Report: two nights with Black Peaks
When a good band comes to town and you’re available, you go and watch that band, right? If they’re a really good band you might even watch them a couple of times in the same year if they pass by your way enough times.
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Revisiting Forever by Code Orange
Normally, we leave it a bit longer than two years to revisit an album. But the subject of this write-up is no ordinary record, so we don’t feel bound by our own rules.
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