Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot

Of all the bands we’ve heard, watched and reviewed this year here are the ones that have really stood out that we think might make a bigger splash in 2011… Read more…

Rising from the ashes of the celebrated noisepop outfit The Manhattan Love Suicides, The Blanche Hudson Weekend were formed in 2009 by ex-Suicides Caroline and Darren. Already in that short time the band, named after Joan Crawford’s character in Robert Aldrich’s splendid ‘Whatever Happened To Baby Jane’, have released three EPs. ‘Reverence, Severance and Spite’ is a collection of tracks taken from those EPs (though not in chronological order) plus a couple of demos and a handful of new songs. Read more…