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Most readers will recognise Martin Reynolds as the drummer from Tamworth grunge blues outfit, You Dirty Blue. Over lockdown, Reynolds

Watch: Bad Girlfriend are back with new video ‘Here It Comes’

Birmingham based punk trio Bad Girlfriend are back with their sludgiest, riffiest single yet.

King’s Heath veterans Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam deliver a short yet sweet 7th album that distills down everything that fans love about them.

Redditch-based indie-rockers, The Jewellers, showcase their trade with the release of their first two singles.

The glowing new single, out now on local label Setting Son Records, drips in morning light and shimmers in 60s psychedelia.

Birmingham’s purveyors of perverted cool continue their purple patch with ‘Debauched Times’, the lead single off their forthcoming album.

The video for the extremely topical quarantine single features cameos from members of Idles, Dream Wife, Amyl and the Sniffers, God Damn and more

Lions of Dissent’s latest release, ‘Dreams Like Drugs’, is a psych-pop bop, and the second single from their EP Fear of Loathing.

Wolverhampton septet Lions of Dissent return triumphantly with new indie disco banger ‘Turn Up The Struggle’.

It’s another teenage rampage from Kings Heath quartet Flares, on latest single Parma Violets. Stephen Pennell reviews.