Florida based punks Top Tier are streaming their new album “North Kendall Drive” You can give it a listen below. The new album represents the second album for the band, the first since the 2016’s “Downsmash”. If you like Matchbook Romance or Thursday you’ll dig these guys.
Florida based punks Top Tier are streaming their new album “North Kendall Drive”
You can give it a listen below.
The new album represents the second album for the band, the first since the 2016’s “Downsmash”. If you like Matchbook Romance or Thursday you’ll dig these guys. [Read more…]
Punk rock legends Lagwagon have fans puzzled and excited all at once. The band posted a mysterious photo on their Instagram. Shortly after the mysterious message the band announced they will be joining Flogging Molly’s “Salty Dog Cruise”. Was that the big news or is it possibly a new album? A Tour? Who knows, but […]
Punk rock legends Lagwagon have fans puzzled and excited all at once. The band posted a mysterious photo on their Instagram. Shortly after the mysterious message the band announced they will be joining Flogging Molly’s “Salty Dog Cruise”. Was that the big news or is it possibly a new album? A Tour? Who knows, but if the boys from Lagwagon say 2018’s going to be “Bananas” best bet something awesome is in the works.
Scottish/Belgian shredders The Affect Heuristic are allowing folks to stream their debut single “Against the Grain”. The track is loaded with technical musicianship whilst still retaining strong melodic sections and is sure to excite all those confused sods who are too metal to be punk and too punk to be metal. Recording duties for the […]
Scottish/Belgian shredders The Affect Heuristic are allowing folks to stream their debut single “Against the Grain”. The track is loaded with technical musicianship whilst still retaining strong melodic sections and is sure to excite all those confused sods who are too metal to be punk and too punk to be metal.
Recording duties for the single were undertaken by John Harcus of Scottish skate punk band PMX at John Harcus Audio Productions. Based on this taster of The Affect Heuristic, the forthcoming split with a soon-to-be-announced band is one we’re eagerly anticipating.
For now, you can check out “Against the Grain” below.
For the first time in what I think was about five years, Swingin’ Utters played a headline show in Boston this past Sunday evening (their last two trips through this area were on a tour with Lagwagon three years ago and as part of the massive Fat Wreck 25th Anniversary tour the following summer). Though […]
For the first time in what I think was about five years, Swingin’ Utters played a headline show in Boston this past Sunday evening (their last two trips through this area were on a tour with Lagwagon three years ago and as part of the massive Fat Wreck 25th Anniversary tour the following summer). Though the lineup has changed AND it was an unseasonably cold mid-November night AND the Patriots were throttling the Denver Broncos on Sunday Night Football at the time, the old school punks came out in droves for the occasion and met the band with what seemed like a throwback vibe.
It was announced just prior to this tour that the Utters are putting out a sort of double-album greatest hits compilation, Drowning In The Sea, Rising With The Sun, on December 8th through Fat Wreck Chords, and the setlist on this particular night seemed to be culled from some of the earlier half of the band’s career. Sure “The Librarians Are Hiding Something” and “Alice” from their most recent couple of post-hiatus albums made welcome appearances, but this seemed like a night for the old guard. Luke Ray has served as a steady breath of fresh air behind the drum kit for the last couple years, and he’s now got his Sciatic Nerve bandmate Tony Teixeira (Nothington/Western Addiction/Cobra Skulls) as his rhythm section counterpart, having taken over for Miles Peck earlier this year. Jack Dalrymple also sat this particular run out, meaning longtime Utters partners Johnny Bonnel and Darius Koski and the new recruits are playing aggressive and lean as a four-piece. In spite of the moving parts throughout the years, the Bonnel and Koski and company remain one of the most esteemed bands in the scene and, truthfully, songs like “No Eager Men” and “Five Lessons Learned” and “Pills And Smoke” and, of course, “”Windspitting Punk” sound just as earnest as ever.
Western Settings are providing direct support on this run. The band have been on a steady climb over the last few years, and with good reason. Their 2015 album, Yes It Is, released digitally here at Dying Scene, remains high on my personal favorites list, and the band has only gotten better in the two years since. Boston can be a bit of a finicky place for out-of-town bands to play, but the four-piece San Diego-based Jawbreaker-meets-Replacements outfit did an admirable job on their first trip through the Bay State. If a band can obviously play with passion and intensity and works up a sweat on their own, dimes to dollars says they’ll win over a crowd that is obviously interested in the headliners, and that seemed the case on this night, as they were increasingly well-received as their 45-minute set moved forward.
Doing double duty on this tour, Swingin’ Utters guitarist and principal songwriter Darius Koski is also serving as support. It’s the first time he’s really hit the road as a solo artist, especially outside California, and he enlisted the help of fellow Utters Luke Ray on drums and Tony Teixeira on bass to fill out some of the instrumentation that appears on his two solo albums, 2015’s Sisu and this month’s stellar What Was Once Is By And Gone (both released on Fat Wreck) and that would have been missed were he playing strictly solo and acoustic. A personal highlight was the short set’s closer, “Another Man,” which appears as the last song on the newest album in stripped down acoustic format, but was given a revved up, electric reworking for this tour.
Boston’s own Duck & Cover were well-deserved local openers for this particular show. There’s been a bit of a garage rock undercurrent in the local scene for the last handful of years that bands like Duck & Cover and The Warning Shots and Michael Kane and the Morning Afters and even Continental and others have been a part of, and that’s been a welcome addition to a seen that has obviously had its fair share of ska-punk and “working class” Celtic punk bands over the last two decades. Made up of members that might look familiar from bands like The Black Cheers and the Acrobrats and Bang Camaro, bands like D&C show that mixing a little Guns & Roses with your Clash and Ramones records is not bad thing.
Head below for our full photo gallery from the evening!
O.C. punk veterans The Offspring have announced that a 20th anniversary limited edition of their fourth album Ixnay on the Hombre will be released on December 15th by Round Hill Music. The band states, “We are happy to announce that on December 15th Round Hill Music will release a 20th Anniversary limited edition of Ixnay On The Hombre […]
O.C. punk veterans The Offspring have announced that a 20th anniversary limited edition of their fourth album Ixnay on the Hombre will be released on December 15th by Round Hill Music.
The band states, “We are happy to announce that on December 15th Round Hill Music will release a 20th Anniversary limited edition of Ixnay On The Hombre on Vinyl. It will feature 180g opaque gold vinyl, a textured jacked with gold foil print, a matte custom printed sleeve and a heavyweight insert printed with gold foil and suitable for framing. Pre-order information will be announced this week…”
The Offspring recently stated that their long-awaited follow-up to 2012’s Days Go By is expected to be released next year. The band might also be releasing a new EP.
LA based pop punk duo The Dollyrots have released a video for “Just Because I’m Blonde”. The track is from the band’s recent full length, “Whiplash Splash”, which came out in March this year. You can watch the video below.
LA based pop punk duo The Dollyrots have released a video for “Just Because I’m Blonde”. The track is from the band’s recent full length, “Whiplash Splash”, which came out in March this year.
You can watch the video below.
Authority Zero have a new video up for “First One In The Pit”. The track is from their recent album, “Broadcasting to the Nations,” which came out back in June on Bird Attack Records. You can watch the video below.
Authority Zero have a new video up for “First One In The Pit”. The track is from their recent album, “Broadcasting to the Nations,” which came out back in June on Bird Attack Records.
You can watch the video below.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s punks Posers have announced they are calling it a day. In a Twitter post, they simply said “It’s be a fun ride but we are parting ways! We will have a video for y’all in a couple weeks as a parting gift. Thanks for all the love!<3” The band released “Posers, Too” […]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s punks Posers have announced they are calling it a day. In a Twitter post, they simply said “It’s be a fun ride but we are parting ways! We will have a video for y’all in a couple weeks as a parting gift. Thanks for all the love!<3”
The band released “Posers, Too” back in 2016.
California hardcore veterans Lionheart have released another video from their “Welcome To The West Coast II” album. “Cursed” is from the record, out now on Fast Break Records. Various physicals are up for order now. You can watch the video below.
California hardcore veterans Lionheart have released another video from their “Welcome To The West Coast II” album. “Cursed” is from the record, out now on Fast Break Records. Various physicals are up for order now.
You can watch the video below.
Southern California pop-punk band Odd Robot are the latest act to perform for Bridge City Sessions. The band played “Take Two White Pills” and “Knife And A Cigarette” for the session, both from their latest album “A Late Night Panic”. You can watch the performances below.
Southern California pop-punk band Odd Robot are the latest act to perform for Bridge City Sessions. The band played “Take Two White Pills” and “Knife And A Cigarette” for the session, both from their latest album “A Late Night Panic”.
You can watch the performances below.