And the Award goes to …

And the Award goes to …

In traditional reverse order: Sharing joint runner-up spot … Parquet Courts – Wide Awake! and Christine and the Queens – ..

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Wolfrik – Skeleton City

Wolfrik – Skeleton City

Edmonton, Canada Hard Core Punk Rockers ‘Wolfrik’ are here to thrash your face off; turn your stereo up loud and say goodbye ..

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Spill Awards – Films of the Year 2018

Spill Awards – Films of the Year 2018

Photo by Pim Chu on Unsplash Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight I shall have great pleasure. But first of all, I wish ..

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Vote Now!

https://readersrecommend.wordpress.com/2019/01/02/2018-album-the-vote/ Don’t forget to vote! There’s a clear favourite but it is very ..

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Mozes and the Firstborn – Dadcore

Mozes and the Firstborn – Dadcore

Power Pop, Indie kids ‘Mozes and the Firstborn’ sound like the bastard child of The Dandy Warhols, Silversun Pickups, Beck and Bracket ..

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2018 Album – The Vote

  Having considered your nominations for 2018’s favourite albums in various posts on The ‘Spill I have prepared a playlist ..

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KTOTT Best Songs of 2018

Myself and Read Hard compiled a list of 20 songs we enjoyed the most in 2018. Check it out below: Advertisements

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sous pression! #422

sous pression! #422

artiste – album – titre bérurier noir – enfoncez l’clown – fils de…lion’s law – ..

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Everyone gets books for Christmas, right?

I thought you’d like to see my family’s Christmas book haul…. https://wp.me/p1yoK9-Tn

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Meditations on Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations

Meditations on Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations

Long ago, I identified a cyclical pattern in my moods. Feelings of sadness and despair, which are attached to no particular set of external ..

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Best albums of 2018? Here’s mine:

1 Mary Gauthier – Rifles and Rosary Beads 2 Damien Jurado – The Horizon Just Laughed 3 John McCutcheon – Ghost Light 4 Tom Morello ..

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Favourite Films of 2018

Favourite Films of 2018

Photo by Myke Simon on Unsplash So then. Films. Did you see any? Did you like them? Were they released this year? So many ..

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Favourite Albums – 2018 (No Turkeys)

Favourite Albums – 2018 (No Turkeys)

  For those that want some respite from left-over turkey, mince pies and possibly relatives but haven’t over indulged in this ..

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Panthersan’s Best Albums of 2018 3-1

Panthersan’s Best Albums of 2018 3-1

I meant to put this up a couple of days ago (I’m not trying to build suspense, honestly!) but have been super busy moving back into ..

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Review: The Drowns- View From the Bottom (Gunner)

What do you get when you bring together members of some of the best bands in the West and Northwest of the United States, people from bands ..

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Panthersan’s Best Albums of 2018 6-4

Panthersan’s Best Albums of 2018 6-4

On with the show…! 6 Comacozer/Blown Out – In Search of Highs Volume 1 I chose a Blown Out track for my Festive ‘Spill ..

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Our Souls – I Might Drink Myself To Sleep

Our Souls – I Might Drink Myself To Sleep

Leicester UK Gruff Punkers ‘Our Souls’ debut EP ‘I Might Drink Myself To Sleep’ is full of cool ideas, but doesn’t ..

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Panthersan’s Best Albums of 2018 10 – 7

Panthersan’s Best Albums of 2018 10 – 7

OK, OK, I know I say this every year recently, but I really really wasn’t going to do an end of year list at all this year. My records ..

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Boxing Day – Retrospect

Boxing Day – Retrospect

Belgium Pop Punkers ‘Boxing Day’s new 2 track single is a big slice of catchy kickass radness. As granny refuses to leave the house, ..

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Jimmy Vapid – Night Moves

Jimmy Vapid – Night Moves

Oshawa, Ontario Jimmy Vapid offers up a power-station full of energy straight to your cochlea. ‘Night Moves’ is 14 tracks full ..

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Mind & Matter – Notes On Schrödinger’s Essay

Mind & Matter – Notes On Schrödinger’s Essay

There have been many great thinkers from who have pondered about what reality means and who’ve tried to explain what and how exactly ..

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Misgivings – Hermitage

Misgivings – Hermitage

Portsmouth Melodic/Gruff Punkers ‘Misgivings’ have ripped a massive hole in my heart with ‘Hermitage’ and replaced ..

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sous pression! #421 – top 10 de 2018

Comme à chaque année, y’A eu plein de bon nouveau stock de sortie en 2018. Voici ce qui nous a fait bouger, danser, ..

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Ten Tracks – Pete Shelley

Ten Tracks – Pete Shelley

I wasn’t going to. Then I was. Now I have. This isn’t definitive or anything like a “best of” but it does span his career, ..

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Cryptic Christmas Quiz

Hi All   I know I have been virtually completely absent from both here and the Song Bar for most of 2018. I would like to say that ..

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sous pression! #420

sous pression! #420

artiste – album – titre bière sociale – alors, il parait qu’c’est la paix – chant 2 la naction ..

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Cynics

Cynics

Cynicism, like nihilism, has a bad name in the poplar mind. It is generally thought that cynics are negative, distrustful, and see only ..

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Subscription due

Hi all – I’ve received notification that our subscription is due on 1st Jan and WordPress will auto collect the £85 from ..

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Car City – Self Titled

Car City – Self Titled

‘Car City’ drag their awesome blend of Power Pop and Britpop goodness straight out of Fox Cities, Wisconsin. ‘Self Titled’ ..

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sous pression! #419

sous pression! #419

artiste – album – titre larcin – larcin – larcinsilex – sharp as a rock – silexla gachette – ne renoncera ..

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Festive ‘Spill, 2018

Festive ‘Spill, 2018

Shall we? Why not? It is time, once again, to gather our songs of the year for the Festive season. Select your 3 best tunes of 2018 (or very ..

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2018 comes to an end!

Hello everybody! So 2018 comes to an end and it has been an amazing year for us. In our previous post we talked about the first half, the second ..

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Batwings – Poltergeist

Batwings – Poltergeist

The new single from Country punkers ‘Batwings’ sounds like the ‘Bonanza’ theme tune on crack. Mixing 90’s ..

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sous pression! #418

sous pression! #418

artiste – album – titre komptoir chaos – split riot company – loup solitaireachigan – la société ..

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Dirty Work – In The West End

Dirty Work – In The West End

Toronto Canada’s ‘Dirty Work’ play a lush mix of street punk, oi and old school hard-core. ‘In The West End’ ..

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Datong, The Hanging Monastery and the Yungang Grottoes

Datong, The Hanging Monastery and the Yungang Grottoes

On our 5th day in China, we woke at 4am and took a cab to the Beijing airport in order to catch a one hour flight to Datong, a city that ..

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