Crimson Star – Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Birmingham is a big place, a very big place, a place that I personally spent a gratuitous amount of money in while touring its record shops recently. Now, this obviously gives me good reason to go back but perhaps there could be more...
Brassick – Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Since their birth in 2012 these Birmingham/West-Midlands punkers have never failed to deliver a broken bottle to the jugular from their music and live performances and the latest shot of razor blades to the face Appreciate Your Concern is no exception. Reminiscent of the...
The Violent Hearts – Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. With credentials that include the Hardcore Punk/Garage Rock of The Computers early days, thrown in their latter Blues and Soul AND the short but on point career of the band Sharks, Birmingham the three-piece The Violent Sharks have their foundation to say...
The Borgias – Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. *WARNING Contains Head Nodding Illusions* Heading nodding illusions? Spectral guitarists? Birmingham? That sounds about right. It’s no secret that Musically Fresh if inundated with emails and review requests and it’s also no secret that we conduct such business outside of other commitments. However,...
Templeton Pek – Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. – Photo by Kris Andrew Askey I’ve had Birmingham lot, Templeton Pek, in my lugholes for yonks now. And now, stereotypical English slang aside, it is finally time for some words on the band’s fourth full-length, New Horizons. The band’s sound has always moved between fast-to-...
Johnny Kowalski and The Sexy Weridos – Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. ‘Like taking a mains wired blender to the last fifty years of Rock and Roll music history and daring it to dangle it’s dangley bits in.’ Imagine circus bears finally breaking free from captivity and going on a rampage,...