Christmas Advent #23 – All I Want For Christmas...

...is you via Salt Lake City’s finest Punks, Baby Ghosts.

... is a Dukla Prague away kit via the Wirral's finest, Half Man Half Biscuit.

That should be enough to see you through the slow hours of Christmas Eve Eve.

Christmas Advent #14 - Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket

The window opens today to reveal some brilliant snowman action from the American Shakin' Stevens Jonathan Richman.

Christmas Advent #13 – Don’t Forget The First One

As Dai Disco spent the weekend inside a barrel of Crumpton Oaks, emerging only to enter the wrong door and proceed anyway to empty the fridge of its cans like Phantom Phil on his way home from a bender, there was no number 12.

To more than make up for it, number 13 is a shit-kicking punk treat from San Francisco’s Joyride! Fuzzy guitars laced with razor sharp edges whip up a storm that stays with you like the cloud over Daffy Duck, spitting hail that cuts, scars, and has you endlessly coming back for more like morphine day in the surgery.

Christmas Advent #8 – Fear of Missing Out

Today’s gift comes from California’s bone-shaking Punk Poppers Great Hart. The shit-kicking ‘Dropping Out’ sounds like Bouncing Souls taps-aff sucking Crumpton Oaks through a beer helmet in Jack the Rat and Lesher’s new student digs, or even better if that’s possible. Send them all your money. Punk rock ist nicht tot!!
 

Christmas Advent #6 – Skewed

Today’s treat comes via Melbourne’s shoegaze dream-Poppers Day Ravies. Their 2015 LP Liminal Zones rolls and spikes with synths, guitar hooks and slow burning melodies that burn like a drug you can’t put down. ‘Skewed’ is just one purler from their full box of shimmering Pop beauties.

Christmas Advent #3 – Dickhead

Christmas Advent number 3 comes via DIY Punk super-group No Ditching. Their 2015 EP Inseparable rages like Marceline and the Scream Queens busking on a Durham street corner. The one minute riot that is ‘Dickhead’ has never been so appropriate.

Pop Music For People That Don't Like People

 

Art Brut Top of the Pops, Art Brut's epic 10 year journey from 'Emily Kane' to 'Axl Rose', with 'Sealand' and 'Arizona Bay' in between is available to stream for 7 days here. It includes brand new songs, rare b-sides, live versions, and is without any doubt the greatest 'best of' of all time.

Forget your plans for the next few days, grab a crate of Special VAT and make enemies in the kitchens of multiple house parties to the sweet sounds of Art Brut, with all the intention of waking up under a pile of stranger's coats. Alternatively just buy the album. Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot!