Month: May 2007

Not unlike their Canuck soul mates, and one of the forefathers of the genre itself The Gruesomes, The Midways don’t seem to give a s*** for jumping on the passing garage-punk revival bandwagon in any […]

After sharing their Five Spanish Minutes (reviewed elsewhere on these pages) with us some two years ago, it seems that however short it might’ve been, their time spent in Circo Perotti Studios in Gijón, with […]

Being even less in accordance with their own claim that they’re “not concerned with the image” than on their Get Hip debut Bring On The Sweetlife two years ago (reviewed elsewhere on these pages), The […]

Sadly, almost coinciding with the passing of the band’s songwriter and Aussie’s first true guitar hero Lobby Loyde this April, along with last year’s fistful of Purple Hearts (reviewed elsewhere on these pages), this re-issue […]

Being compared to the likes of The Beatles, The Zombies or Buffalo Springfield, might be a pretty heavy load to carry around sometimes. Even though they did seem capable of it, without ever really having […]

However late an arrival in the POPISM headquarters this one might be, it’s still worth sharing a nice word or two about it. With it’s cartoon-ish artwork being almost as great as the one for […]

Having his name carved into one of the first couple of pages of any r’n’r encyclopedia as early as 1957, there was not much left for Dale Hawkins to do during the rest of his […]

– The Complete UK singles (And More) 1965-1967 – To make things clear once and for all, THIS is The Knack “and now to get it”! … not that it’s not worth trying with “the […]