ALBUM REVIEW: BLAK HAND RECORDS – HIDE AND PSYCH

It’s great that we live in an age where indie labels are running supreme. The majors will always be there, ready to entice the unsuspecting but to the core of it, underground music and the DIY aesthetic seems to be a fiercer proposition more than ever at the moment. Blak Hand Records are a cassette based […]
Blak Hand Records are participating in their third Cassette Store Day with a brand new sizzlin’ release called Hide and Psych. Limited to 50 fire engine red tapes and featuring 13 tracks, the album gives some of the brightest and newest Blak Hand bands a chance to shine with their own hand picked covers of […]

BLAK HAND RECORDS SHARE NEW TRACK + CASSETTE

CHUPA CABRA SHARE VIDEO FOR MOUTHS TO FEED

North Wales punks Chupa Cabra released their debut cassette single on Blak Hand Records August 22. The video for ‘Mouths To Feed’ is available to stream below. Mouths To Feed paces back and forth, perfectly capturing the band’s incandescent punk attitude, lyrics “I got wants, I got needs, I got seven deadly mouths to feed” roll […]
Cassette Store Day is back this autumn on October 8th with a day of global celebrations and all in honour of the humble cassette tape. The first list of UK releases is as follows: Pixies – Head Carrier (Pixies Music) Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Kissability) Gonjasufi […]

CASSETTE STORE DAY ANNOUNCES FIRST WAVE OF RELEASES

STRANGE COLLECTIVE SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR SUPER TOUCHY

Liverpool quartet Strange Collective have released a video for the single ‘Super Touchy’. The band’s EP of the same name was released on vinyl July 1st via Salvation Records and through cassette on Blak Hand. The video, shot in a dark Liverpool basement, exposes the raw underbelly of the Strange Collective partying lifestyle and ultimately twists us through […]
CHUPA CABRA – remember the name. These three guys from Deeside, North Wales are about to drop their first cassette. Chupa Cabra are a garage outfit bring a dizzying blend of psych punk and 60’s West Coast garage rock worthy of soundtracking Hunter S. Thompson’s journey into the desert. The band released their debut single “My Girl” […]

NORTH WALES PUNKS CHUPA CABRA RELEASE NEW SINGLE

INTRODUCING: CAESAR

Hailing from the music-soaked streets of Manchester, CAESAR are an erratic four piece fronted by Will Carkeet with Teo Castlevecchi, George Whalley and Sean Toohey. Making up a band whose very stage presence speaks for itself, and known for handing out sugar coated sweets during their live set, CAESAR bring a little youth back into […]
– GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER – On Record Store Day I witnessed TVAM hand over a tape to Mary Anne Hobbs. Whether that was the pivotal moment in Lauren Laverne naming him as her BBC 6Music recommendation of the week I’m unsure. Like The Cocteau Twins, the Wigan-based solo musician buries his voice under his distinctive brand […]

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ANTELOPES ANNOUNCE NEW EP ‘WRESTLEMANIA’

Liverpool independent label Blak Hand Records are happy to announce Wrestlemania, the new & final EP from Antelopes. Although it’s been around nine months since the Warrington trio called it quits, Antelopes and Blak Hand Records have teamed up one last time to bring their fans a big going away present. Wrestlemania features nine songs that were intended for release with […]
Back in February, Punk Slime Recordings announced the latest addition to their ever-growing roster with Beach Skulls and their infectious sun-kissed debut album Slow Grind. Beach Skulls have now premiered a new track from their upcoming album with ‘Baby’s A Liar’. The band have also teamed up with Liverpool-based independent label Blak Hand Records for a limited edition […]

BEACH SKULLS PREMIERE NEW TRACK ‘BABY’S A LIAR’ + ANNOUNCE CASSETTE