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contents letter from the publisher
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live reviews Real Heart
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Useless Children | White Walls | Deaf Wish Earthless 40 Cassini 48 Turbonegro 50 Willis Earl Beal 52 Rat & Co 76 photographer gig highlight My Left Boot
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interviews Isis Queen
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Barb Wire Dolls Within The Hype Machine
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Thom Green: Alt-J Primal Power
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Dropkick Murphys and Frank Turner Above Low Flying Planes
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Broozer WH Monks
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Luke Monks: Gay Paris Keith Morris
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OFF! Bucket Lists
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The Pretty Littles special features CherryFest 18 regular features flow — visual art by the artists Julian Medor
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I Am Duckeye | Dirty F | Afterwhite snap — photographer’s choice Valerio Berdini
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new release reviews
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within the hype machine 28
Alt-J窶ケhoto: Zo Gay
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primal
power ken casey and frank turner
In Australia’s oversaturated festival market, the organisers of this year’s Byron Bay Bluesfest have taken a more is more approach, cultivating a diverse lineup, including acts such as the not so bluesy Iggy Pop, Paul Simon and Carlos Santana. Down the bill you’ll also find Boston’s Dropkick Murphys and England’s Frank Turner.
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Dropkick Murphys窶ケhoto: Stephen Booth
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Broozer窶ケhoto: Zo Gay
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flow
visual art by the artists
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julian medor afterwhite | dirty f | i am duckeye
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Morphine This is my most emotional image. I waited to see Morphine live, one of my favourite bands in the 1990s, for years. When they finally came to Italy to play a free festival near Rome, I was so excited that I brought my camera and arrived there early to be in front. I could not know that my joy would turn into drama in about half hour. Mark Sandman collapsed on stage and died of a heart attack minutes after this photo was taken. As soon as I got home, I developed the only eight frames I took in a roll. [I was] in shock. This is the only footage available from that night. It has been used for a documentary film about Mark’s life, Cure For Pain, The Mark Sandman Story, and marks the beginning of my professional concert photography career.
Valerio Berdini
new release
reviews
Barb Wire Dolls
White Walls
The Bronx
Slit Darla
Cell Poison City
The Bronx (IV) Shock | ATO
The Barb Wire Dolls are looking at punk
Few new bands have treated shoegaze
The Bronx rock harder than any other
from the outside. The US-based Greek
with the maturity and sensibility that
band. This is a fact that has been
three piece ignores anything the genre
White Walls have with their debut
solidified over the course of three albums
has to offer post-1989, instead focusing
record. Available through the exciting
and their incendiary live performances.
on punk’s golden age, from the Circle
record division of skate retailer Poison
Their fourth album, The Bronx (IV), is
Jerks throwback ‘Your Escape’ to the
City, the LP is solid, consistent and
no different. ‘The Unholy Hand’ is a
Germs-inspired ‘Walking Dead’.
uncompromising.
punk-rock party highlighted by vocalist
BWD embrace genre conventions.
In conversation, the band get compared
Matt Caughthran’s trademark cynicism
Their debut is fast, messy and socially
to Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth and My
conscious. Targets are banks, the media
Bloody Valentine, but, comparisons
and religious groups, best illustrated in
notwithstanding, what sets this band
‘World on Fire’ and ‘Shut Up Slut’.
apart is their ability to utilise their
be tailor-made for radio.
Slit is a record that sounds both
influences from 1980s dark-wave, metal
After three iterations of the same punk-
and, most pronounced in their melodies
rock formula, it’s natural to wonder
gem that has been consigned to the
and song structures, 1960s flower pop.
whether IV was going to be an exercise
shelves of a secondhand record store.
This bassless trio share vocals and have
in repetition. ‘Style Over Everything’
Produced by noise guru Steve Albini and
a deep understanding of the power of
recorded in just two days, Slit embraces
tone and texture (Dylan makes his own
the DIY punk ethos of generations past.
guitars, Füj plays a tonal beast of an
A glorified demo yet a fantastic mission
aluminium guitar). They have a special
statement for a band that wants to
quality that many bands lack, the ability
it rocks.
save punk.
to write engaging and interesting songs.
Jervis Dean
John Dean
Masterfully done, this is a necessary
relevant and like a 30-year-old forgotten
purchase. Dante Gabriele
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towards the mainstream, though the irony is that songs such as ‘Along For The Ride’ and ‘Youth Wasted’ seem to
wouldn’t be out of place on III, just as ‘Pilot Lights’ seems as if it could have been taken from II. But repetition hardly matters. The Bronx have a formula and
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