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By JD Misfortune

JD Misfortune

30 March 2026

Hits: 1801

• pat todd
• heavy medication records
• the north hollywood phantoms
• richard dugay

I Wanna Live Before I Die b/w Let Me Go – The North Hollywood Phantoms (Heavy Medication Records)

By JD Misfortune and The Ball Tonights

If you're a rock ‘n’ roll diehard like me, you probably go through fallow stages where you just can't locate fresh and original rock ‘n’ roll motherfuckery to help cope with the obscenely darkening and depraved, authoritarian cyberhell and demonic police state new world disorder chaos swirling all around us.

These cats, Richard Duguay and Pat Todd, are the best of the best, utter assassins of lukwarm, ho-hum mediocrity, they have come to raise a ruckous, yank you outta your collective trauma and make you feel like Little Richard. When it comes to producing high quality, dirty and dangerous, blues infused derelict poetic rock ‘n’ roll with that heartland feel, you have to go all the way to Australia to find other contemporaries creating modern art jampacked with that much soulpower and vivid storytellin', these blokes know how to spin a purple yarn, a mile long, on broken glass with runny black eye makeup.

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By Steve Lorkin

Steve Lorkin

30 March 2026

Hits: 869

• the johnnys
• graham hood
• the normals
• the allniters
• anorexia nervosa
• bannanas

Anorexia Nervosa b/w Bananas – The Normals (Leather Jacket Records)

Before The Allniters, before The Johnnys, before The Cool Charmers and before The Silver Dragons, Graham Hood was a young Kiwi punky rock chap playing in The Normals, who were Wellington’s first ever punk band. Future Headless Chicken Mike Lawry played guitar, Dazee Day was on vocals (she’s now a successful fashion label owner) and Karl Scutt (who went onto Domestic Blitz) was on drums.

Formed in 1978 and dead by 1979 - truly a band in the live fast, die young mould - they recorded three songs, two of which appear for the first time here on a label run by The Flying Nun folks via their punk subsidiary, Leather Jacket Records (good name hey?).

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By The Barman

The Barman

15 March 2026

Hits: 1030

• jessie
• looch lewis and the press gangsters

Jessie - Looch Lewis & The Press Gangsters (Stanley Records)

Three minutes of surging, earwig pop rock that’s best taken with a wee dram of whiskey. Sydney's Looch Lewis qualifies for veteran status these days, and his side trip is drumming for country rockers Dave Favours & the Roadside Ashes. He's also played guitar for bush folk punks, Handsome Young Strangers.

Like many drummers, there's a solo artist inside just waiting to bust out; if the single is an indication, the debut album's gonna be a goodie. "Jessie" urgently does its business and moves on. It's lyrically dark but the melody line and chorus mean it's made for broad radio airplay.

Looch's strong vocal and six-string picking with fellow guitarist Tomson Sowonja is leavened by neat mandolin from Drizabone Dion Dixon that adds something of a Celtic touch. Catchy as all get out so hit up your favourite streaming service or listen after the MORE button.

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By The Barman

The Barman

14 December 2025

Hits: 1255

• hound gawd records
• zeke
• peterbilt

Peterbilt b/w From The Ashes – Zeke (Hound Gawd Records)

If you have to ask what it sounds like you’ve never heard a Zeke record. Like most, if not all of them, ”Peterbilt” throttles along like a speed-freak with a headful of crank chasing white lines down an autobahn where there’s no posted limit. If it’s too fast you’re probably too old (and I might will be.)

Live, the band is visceral. On record, they’re all heat with no shade - and so it is with this 45.

“From The Ashes” is dominated by the declaration “this is the night – let’s go” and does what it’s told. The A side might be a song about the “Peterbilt” truck brand but ends up a blur, so it’s hard to tell without a lyric sheet. The briefest of guitar solos tears through the middle like high-beam headlights.

Let’s be real - if you’re chasing Zeke thrills you’re not in search of sensitive balladry and the words don’t much matter anyway. This single likely won’t be streamed and will end up selling out, so it’s for the fans. The blurb calls it "a must-have for punk vinyl collectors and anyone who craves explosive riffs, breakneck drumming, and pure punk chaos" and I don't feel like arguing. 

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By The Barman

The Barman

09 December 2025

Hits: 1881

• evil twin
• the veebees
• third in line for the throne
• yeah orright

Third In Line For The Throne b/w Yeah Orright – The VeeBees (Evil Twin)

Twenty-five years of The VeeBees? Hard to believe but here’s the proof that they still excel at excess. The A side is a stringing sub two-minute trip of raging guitars and fun. The VeeBees’ engine room has never sounded more powerful.

And the lyrics? They’re about lining up when you really need to lay a cable and (thankfully) have nothing about the succession plans of entitled and terminally boring Royals.

At a tick over three minutes “Yeah Orright” is an odyssey in comparison. The band eases off the throttle and while Its lyrical journey doesn’t go much further than the chorus, the chugging guitars stick like shit to a blanket. That term could apply equally to "Third In Line".

The VeeBees don’t own Yob Rock but they’ve carved out their own little corner, spanning Canberra and Wollongong. More power to their (drinking) arm. As the boys themselves say: "Four blokes, 3 chords, 2 brain cells, 1 carton of beer." 

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By Robert Brokenmouth

Robert Brokenmouth

29 October 2025

Hits: 1909

• spooky records
• loki lockwood
• josh lord
• And Now Is The Twilight Of Our Empire
• Music The Lord Taught Us

And Now Is The Twilight Of Our Empire – Josh Lord (Music The Lord Taught Us)

It’s three songs and digital only. Produced by Loki Lockwood of Spooky Records. The eponymous title track, then “I Can No Longer Remember The Future” and “The Warm Embrace of Machine”.

What we have here might initially strike you as some very cleverly manipulated drone. However, “drone” is, along with terms like “ambient”, “post-punk” and “industrial”, an incredibly misleading descriptor. 

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