Reviews

ALBUM: Hip Hatchet ‘Hold You Like A Harness’

Rating: Like Jazz, Country and Western is a broad church with many different voices and styles of angels.  Phillippe Bronchtein hails from Montreal, but now lives in Portland. Compared to Kerouac (wash your mouth out with soap), this is an…

ALBUM: The Libertines ‘Anthems For Doomed Youth’

Rating: Believe it or not it’s been a stammering 11 years since The Libertines made an album. That’s an entire decade – and then some – since the divisive London scallywags released The Libertines. What’s perhaps harder to believe (granted,…

ALBUM: Motorhead ‘Bad Magic’

Rating: 22 studio albums, 10 live albums and 5 EPs later and Motorhead are still going strong, sounding as raw and punky as they did in their ’80s heyday. The unmistakable husk of Lemmy’s vocal, combined with snarling riff after…

ALBUM: Queen Kwong – ‘Get A Witness’

After much anticipation, we’re finally blessed with a debut album from LA-based Queen Kwong – aka Carré Carraway. After a sold out four month residency in London earlier this year, the LA punks built up a bit of a reputation…

ALBUM: Bon Jovi ’Burning Bridges’

Rating: So after 30 years and the release of their thirteenth album, Bon Jovi are parting ways with their record label – so what? Back in the ’80s Bon Jovi established themselves as a hair-band with an edge, and achieved mammoth…