Post-punk revivalists Some Kind of Illness have returned with a new album – Awakening.
Post-punk revival
ALBUM REVIEW: WILD NOTHING – LIFE OF PAUSE
Pretty amazed at how much influence the music of the 80s post-punk/new wave bands continue to have on modern rock. Regular visitors would be familiar with my disdain for the Joy Division clones that continue to rear their ugly heads but it’s fair to say that there are legitimate artists Continue Reading
PoPTV: EDITORS PROLONG THE DEATH THROES OF THE POST-PUNK REVIVAL WITH NEW SINGLE MARCHING ORDERS
I am sick of the post-punk revival – it is one of the worst aspects of millennial pop culture – and it’s already been 15 years. C’mon! This is compounded by the fact that I absolutely loved the original 80s post-punk scene. Thus, to hear the works of Joy Division, Continue Reading
BRONCHO – JUST ENOUGH HIP TO BE WOMAN
On track #2 of BRONCHO‘s new album – “Class Historian” – the band unleash a hook so infectious it should be illegal. There is something indefinably timeless about the song even though it exists firmly within the post-punk revivalist milieu. I supposed it is impossible for bands like BRONCHO not Continue Reading
PoPTV: THE OUTFIT “STRANGE BONES” [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
A name like The Outfit does carry with it a certain association with 80s American new wave, doesn’t it? The hype pronounces The Outfit as a band that ‘offers an earnest take on garage rock revival, building on the ground laid out by such acts as The Strokes, and early Kings of Leon’. Continue Reading