10th Truck looks to be the best yet

Brakes offer free living room gig to whoever has it

Plus new release info

Noisy and sweaty country punk

Fantastic new single culled from The Beatific Visions

Plus UK & European tour dates

For their second album Brighton’s Brakes seconded to Nashville and let the rich history of country music flow through them. Though the sound is largely a mix of The Pixies, The dead Kennedys and The Clash, the country influence is apparent across the eleven tracks and a few country songs do make it into the […]

Holy crap, this is in all honestly, amazing. Brakes release a Graham Sutton remix of their scatty punk song All Night Disco Party, and I’m so glad they have.
This is a stomping, eat you alive kind of song, made more so with the powers of computer and stuff that people who remix songs use. The […]

The title track of the latest release from the Brakes launches forth at you with riffs that remind me of the Sex Pistols and then the full force hits in indie rock fashion. Then it stops, it isn’t even two minutes long. But then that is the Brakes all round, they are short, sweet, punchy […]

The Brakes have not always impressed me in the past; Give Blood has proved me wrong. Contained within the punchy, pithy and passionate half hour are sixteen pocket-sized tunes that contain off-kilter punk, blasting blues and experimental rock. There are excellent covers of the Jesus & Mary Chains Sometimes Always and Johnny Cash’s Jackson each […]