• EP REVIEW: GYPSY VANNER- ‘Five Distilled Celtic Punks’ (2019)

    The brilliant debut six track EP release from Argentinian Celtic-Punk band Gypsy Vanner. A band dedicated to the fusion of traditional Irish music and rock, with the aim of converting traditional songs to rock and vice versa. The last couple of years have seen quite a decent Celtic-Punk scene kicking off in Argentina. At the…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: MALASAÑERS – ‘Footprints’ (2018)

    German-Spanish band Malasañers fill the gap between early and late Flogging Molly with whiskey-soaked Irish folk and good auld fashioned rock music.  Malasañers history is a complicated one and begins back in working-class Madrid where due to the financial crisis at home Carlos del Pino makes the journey across Europe to move to the mid-German…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: CLEAR THE BATTLE FIELD- ‘Set Me Free’ (2016)

    Armagh born multi instrumentalist Dominic Cromie and crew with a modern take on traditional Irish music that has something for bloody everyone! When talking about celtic-punk people sometimes think of a narrow genre situated somewhere between the two most famous bands to come out of it, The Pogues and The Dropkick Murphys, but when you…

  • ALBUM REVIEW: THE TOSSPINTS- ‘The Privateer’ (2015)

    Murder city celtic-punks! This is the The Tosspints fourth album and after the success of all that’s gone before them their new album ‘The Privateer’ does not disappoint and comes up trumps in every way. The band is made up of the brothers Zuzula. Don is a combat veteran of the Iraqi war and Zak a…

  • EP REVIEW: NOWHEREBOUND- ‘Til Death, For Life’ (2015)

    Nowherebound are an acoustic band based out of Austin, Texas with twinges of punk, country and folk thrown together at a moment’s notice over a few beers and too much coffee. Formed in 2010 out of the ashes of local Texan punk bands Nowherebound have had a very busy 2015 plying their brand of folk-country-punk rock. Not only have…

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