On November 9th Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers will put out their debut album “Bought To Rot” but that doesn’t mean you have to wait until then to hear it. The band is streaming the entire thing with NPR and you can check it out here. Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers is fronted […]
On November 9th Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers will put out their debut album “Bought To Rot” but that doesn’t mean you have to wait until then to hear it. The band is streaming the entire thing with NPR and you can check it out here.
Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers is fronted by Against Me’s Laura Jane Grace and features Atom Willard (also from Against Me!) on drums. Fans of Against Me!
Punk has never been a stranger to tackling controversial issues. On the contrary, for more than 40 years, punk has shown time and time again to be a LOUD voice of reason and unity in a chaotic, irrational and often devastating reality. True to their punk roots, Tacoma streetpunks NOi!SE tackles these issues head-on, more specifically […]
Punk has never been a stranger to tackling controversial issues. On the contrary, for more than 40 years, punk has shown time and time again to be a LOUD voice of reason and unity in a chaotic, irrational and often devastating reality. True to their punk roots, Tacoma streetpunks NOi!SE tackles these issues head-on, more specifically here, the issue of gun violence and school shootings, in a very powerful, non-political way.
“Mass Apathy” (previously unreleased) is brutal, and the intentional vocal silence between verses is deafening; a symbol of lives [children] lost. The words themselves and the vocal contribution from Skinhead Rob (TRANSPLANTS/RANCID) really bring it over the top.
Stream the single below.
Unquestionably, this important song and message will spread far and wide, adding a colorful set of voices to an already loud and vibrant movement. The real goal though is to get people standing up and demanding changes to policies that endanger the lives and futures of America’s children.
In response to the recent barrage of public shootings, especially those involving school children, NOi!SE and Pirates Press Records will donate all proceeds from this song/record to several charities. In the true spirit of this band, and to make sure no voice is unheard, fans will have the opportunity to vote on the charities which will receive donations on behalf of NOi!SE and Pirates Press Records.
Three songs into Grimetime‘s debut full-length “I Think We Could Do Better” I decided I needed to write a band spotlight for them. While struggling to come up with something witty but descriptive and informative I decided that the band does it better themselves in their own bio… “Formed during a particularly hot Northern California […]
Three songs into Grimetime‘s debut full-length “I Think We Could Do Better” I decided I needed to write a band spotlight for them. While struggling to come up with something witty but descriptive and informative I decided that the band does it better themselves in their own bio…
“Formed during a particularly hot Northern California summer in 2016, Grimetime is another band of dumb guys singing songs about robots, romance, and rough days & nights. Taking a page from The Ramones songbook, their output is pretty simple, aside from the harmonized guitars. While their lyrical content occasionally veers off into the political realm with topics like voluntourism and transgender rights, they usually just wanna catch their crushes eye, drink a beer, and bop the night away. Having just released their first album, they’re now trying to get their name out and make some friends.”
Spot on. Stream their debut below.
Boston punks A Crash Republic have released a lyric video for their new single ‘Last September’. They’re described as “Dropkick Murphys covering Four Year Strong”, this comes across for sure. Check out the video below
Boston punks A Crash Republic have released a lyric video for their new single ‘Last September’.
They’re described as “Dropkick Murphys covering Four Year Strong”, this comes across for sure. Check out the video below
You might remember that band Telethon who put out their rock opera ‘The Grand Spontanean: A Tale Told In Five Acts’ last September. If you enjoyed that, you’ll be delighted to know they have a new EP Modern Abrasive coming out on November 9. Two songs (Modern Abrasive and Palo Santo) can be streamed below. After […]
You might remember that band Telethon who put out their rock opera ‘The Grand Spontanean: A Tale Told In Five Acts’ last September. If you enjoyed that, you’ll be delighted to know they have a new EP Modern Abrasive coming out on November 9. Two songs (Modern Abrasive and Palo Santo) can be streamed below.
After discussing their release on my podcast last year, this band sent me their full playbill for their rock opera. It’s well worth a look!
September Haze, the new EP from Dave Hause was released on Friday and you can stream the entire thing on spotify. It’s mellower than most of his previous material Hause enthusiasts will still dig it. This EP is a follow up to Dave’s full length Burt Me In Philly which came out last year.
September Haze, the new EP from Dave Hause was released on Friday and you can stream the entire thing on spotify. It’s mellower than most of his previous material Hause enthusiasts will still dig it.
This EP is a follow up to Dave’s full length Burt Me In Philly which came out last year.
New Jersy punk act The Cryptkeeper Five have announced their signing with Say-10 Records. The label will be re-releasing the bands’ last album The Stronghold on vinyl with a bonus cover of Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up.” To celebrate the announcement, the band has also released a video for their song “1000 Keys.” You can check that out below along […]
New Jersy punk act The Cryptkeeper Five have announced their signing with Say-10 Records. The label will be re-releasing the bands’ last album The Stronghold on vinyl with a bonus cover of Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up.”
To celebrate the announcement, the band has also released a video for their song “1000 Keys.” You can check that out below along with the bands’ upcoming tour dates.
The Cryptkeeper Five originally released The Stronghold in 2016. [Read more…]
Back in 2012, when I had a lot more time on my hands, I released a folk-punk compilation album called “Took Folk To Punk (still available for free download).” It featured a handful of up and coming folk-punk bands that I thought seriously deserved more attention. Since then punk frontmen-gone-solo acts seem to have overshadowed the […]
Back in 2012, when I had a lot more time on my hands, I released a folk-punk compilation album called “Took Folk To Punk (still available for free download).” It featured a handful of up and coming folk-punk bands that I thought seriously deserved more attention. Since then punk frontmen-gone-solo acts seem to have overshadowed the sub-genre, and the lazy genre groupings of punk media organizations (guilty) probably didn’t help shaping perceptions of what a folk-punk band actually might sound like.
Enter Coffin Salesman, a side project of Boston-based musician Aria Rad (of The Radicals, Live Nude Girls). Fiddles, violins, organs and pianos meet electric guitar and punk rock angst. It’s what I would consider “true” folk-punk and had they been around in 2012 they very likely would have wound up alongside Mischief Brew, The Fucking Buckaroos, and all the others on “Too Folk To Punk.” Their new album “Nicrophorus Americanus” was released yesterday and if you dug at all the bands on “Too Folk To Punk” you’re going to want to stream it below.
Mest are to release their first record with the original lineup since 2005. Last week, they announced that the new music, out next year, would be on Cyber Tracks (owned by El Hefe of NOFX and his wife Jen). Cameron Webb is set to produce the new material. In a video with DJ Rossstar, the […]
Mest are to release their first record with the original lineup since 2005. Last week, they announced that the new music, out next year, would be on Cyber Tracks (owned by El Hefe of NOFX and his wife Jen). Cameron Webb is set to produce the new material.
In a video with DJ Rossstar, the singer Tony Lovato discusses their new sound along with an interesting story about Green Day from 2002. Check it out below.
Mest released four albums with producer John Feldmann between 2000 and 2005 with their original lineup. They broke up in 2006, but Tony Lovato continued the band with other musicians filling in and released one full length. In 2015 the band reformed for the odd Chicago and LA show, and this is the first news of the original four recording together again.
The Manchester-based genre-straddlers of Fair Do’s have just released a video for their track “Candleman”. The visuals are suitably seasonal for a Halloween premiere and feature the band fully corpse painted up, channelling their inner mosher. Notable cameos include Death and Bernie the dog. “Candleman”, which you can stream below, appears on the first full-length […]
The Manchester-based genre-straddlers of Fair Do’s have just released a video for their track “Candleman”. The visuals are suitably seasonal for a Halloween premiere and feature the band fully corpse painted up, channelling their inner mosher. Notable cameos include Death and Bernie the dog.
“Candleman”, which you can stream below, appears on the first full-length release from Fair Do’s, Leopards. Copies of the album can picked up from Lockjaw Records now.