Toronto’s Service Delay are allowing fans to stream their latest single “Bogues”. It’s mid-tempo melodic stuff for fans of The Menzingers and similar. Service Delay are yet to release either an EP or album but have put out three singles since May of this year. The latest was their September effort, “Cavities”. However, the five-piece […]
Toronto’s Service Delay are allowing fans to stream their latest single “Bogues”. It’s mid-tempo melodic stuff for fans of The Menzingers and similar.
Service Delay are yet to release either an EP or album but have put out three singles since May of this year. The latest was their September effort, “Cavities”. However, the five-piece are due to release a collection of tunes this coming January. For now, check out “Bogues” below.
Australian skate punk band, Hack The Mainframe are allowing fans to stream a music video for their track “Col”. It’s been taken from the group’s forthcoming album Disorder of Consciousness, which is poised to drop on the 22nd of this month via Pee Records. You can check out the video for “Col” below whilst you wait for the […]
Australian skate punk band, Hack The Mainframe are allowing fans to stream a music video for their track “Col”. It’s been taken from the group’s forthcoming album Disorder of Consciousness, which is poised to drop on the 22nd of this month via Pee Records.
You can check out the video for “Col” below whilst you wait for the full release to drop.
The Used are streaming their latest music video for track “Rise Up Lights”. The tune is taken from the band’s seventh studio album The Canyon which was released late last month via Hopeless Records. In addition, The Used are currently on tour with Glassjaw. Fans can check out both the tour dates and the video for […]
The Used are streaming their latest music video for track “Rise Up Lights”. The tune is taken from the band’s seventh studio album The Canyon which was released late last month via Hopeless Records. In addition, The Used are currently on tour with Glassjaw.
Fans can check out both the tour dates and the video for “Rise Up Lights” below.
Chicago-based melodic punk act Take The Reins are allowing fans to stream a video for their track “Southside Rules”. The tune is taken from the band’s new album Addiction by Subtraction which was released late September. Check it out below!
Chicago-based melodic punk act Take The Reins are allowing fans to stream a video for their track “Southside Rules”. The tune is taken from the band’s new album Addiction by Subtraction which was released late September.
Check it out below!
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This past weekend while many of my friends and coworkers headed down to Gainesville Florida for that punk rock extravaganza known as Fest, Me and a few other friends who were stuck in the city for the weekend decided to Skank our Halloween asses silly at the 6th annual Devil’s Night Danse party at the […]
This past weekend while many of my friends and coworkers headed down to Gainesville Florida for that punk rock extravaganza known as Fest, Me and a few other friends who were stuck in the city for the weekend decided to Skank our Halloween asses silly at the 6th annual Devil’s Night Danse party at the Bowery Electric in New York City, playing that night were two of my favorite Skinhead Ska bands Mephiskapheles and Hub City Stompers who were joined by my new favorite Brooklyn Oi band 45 Adapters.
I’m happy to say we got to the show on time and caught all but the first song from 45 Adapters who played a killer Oi set as the place began to fill up, front man Pickabar belted out song after song to the crowd with the backup of a tight as hell band who I found very impressive and left me wondering why 45 Adapters have been off my radar for so long?
Next to hit the stage was one of my all-time favorite Ska Punk Oi bands; Hub City Stompers, who as they always do, delivered a really fun fast paced set. Front man Reverend Sinister and company were dressed as side show performers, Reverend Sinister as the ring master and the band members as The Bearded lady, a strong man, a half man half woman, and a day of the dead guitarist. Their set hit most if not all the fan favorites and included a reggae cover of Type O Negatives Christian Woman which was a pretty cool treat for this spooky Halloween show.
After Reverend Sinister and his parish left the stage Mephiskapheles took over dressed as some sort of satanic monks and they proceeded to play their 1997 album Maximum Perversion in its entirety along with some other favorite hits from back in the day, and let me bare witness Mephiskapheles know how to put on a show, they worked the already well warmed crowd into a hellish whirlwind of skanking satanists bent on a good time, and yes a good time was had by all The Devils Night Danse was definitely the cure for the no Fest blues.
If you’re not already a fan of these bands check them out…Mephiskapheles, Hub City Stompers and 45 Adapters…This is a lineup that needs to tour, absolutely amazing!
Phoenix, Arizona’s Playboy Manbaby will never be the sort of band that releases songs that are scathing and coherent critiques of western politics and materialism. They are far more likely to continue releasing tunes that are subversive and comedic satires of what they perceive society’s ills to be, and when they add in one of […]
Photo by Jeff Schaer-Moses Photography
Left to right, David Cosme, Ricky Smash, Robbie Pfeffer, Chad B. Dennis, Chris Hudson, and TJ Friga of Playboy Manbaby at Lost Lake Music Festival on Oct. 20.
Phoenix, Arizona’s Playboy Manbaby will never be the sort of band that releases songs that are scathing and coherent critiques of western politics and materialism. They are far more likely to continue releasing tunes that are subversive and comedic satires of what they perceive society’s ills to be, and when they add in one of their frontman Robbie Pfeffer’s ridiculous animated videos, it makes the track ever sweeter.
With their newest single “Cadillac Car” off of their most recent record Don’t Let it Be, Playboy is trying out a brand new style of video, mixing Pfeffer’s insane drawings with the bonkers live-action video stylings of director Ryan Riggs. What comes of it is an irreverent music video highlighting the finer points of Playboy Manbaby’s ode to the American Dream. “Cadillac Car” is all about society’s excesses, put together with a little good ol’-fashioned Playboy Manbaby psychosis.
If Playboy’s last video for “Last One Standing” was their “Thriller,” this most recent offering from the sick and twisted minds of Pfeffer, TJ Friga, David Cosme, Chris Hudson, Chad B. Dennis, and Austin “Ricky Heylee Smash Dallas Lavender” Rickert, a.k.a. The Baddest Man on the Planet, is their version of Michael Jackson’s “Leave Me Alone.” Oh, and it’s absolutely fabulous.
Check it out below.
Children of Terror come from Malang, Indonesia and do not fuck around. They were formed in 2006 and have released a demo (2008), a full-length album titled “Retrospective” (2016) and an EP titled “Kaliyuga” this year. The core of their music consists of all the classic hardcore elements i.e. agressiveness, mid-tempo rhythms and earth-shattering breakdowns. […]
Children of Terror come from Malang, Indonesia and do not fuck around. They were formed in 2006 and have released a demo (2008), a full-length album titled “Retrospective” (2016) and an EP titled “Kaliyuga” this year. The core of their music consists of all the classic hardcore elements i.e. agressiveness, mid-tempo rhythms and earth-shattering breakdowns. Their lyrical themes revolve around inner struggle, depression, humanity, spirituality, philosophy and hardcore attitude and pride.
Children of Terror’s latest offering, “Kaliyuga”, was released last September and it’s a turnpoint for the band’s sound progress, drawing inspiration from a wide range of influences, from grindcore/powerviolence to sludge, without losing their identity. You can check it out below.
Danielle Kolker of Brooklyn based folk-punk band Out of System Transfer had to turn down a gig with her other project, Funk Rust Brass Band, on Oct. 31 to tend to a religious obligation. That spiritual commitment was World/Inferno Friendship Society’s annual Halloween rowdy down Hallowmas at The Warsaw. As much as Kolker was half […]
All photos by Jeff Schaer-Moses Photography
World/Inferno Friendship Society truly puts on one of the best Halloween spectacles in the world.
Danielle Kolker of Brooklyn based folk-punk band Out of System Transfer had to turn down a gig with her other project, Funk Rust Brass Band, on Oct. 31 to tend to a religious obligation. That spiritual commitment was World/Inferno Friendship Society’s annual Halloween rowdy down Hallowmas at The Warsaw. As much as Kolker was half joking with her bandmates about why she had to miss the show, calling what transpired in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on All Hallow’s Eve a religious experience isn’t that far from the truth.
The chief pontificator of The Great Pumpkin Jack Terricloth lead his congregation of crusties, misfits, punks, and weirdos on a nearly two-hour long vision quest of intrigue and drama culminating in a rousing rendition of the old World/Inferno hymn “Pumpkin Time.” Terricloth is a cult unto himself and with his absurdly talented brood behind him, it’s hard not fall hook, line, and sinker for his silver-tongued sermons revolving around the aforementioned gourde, the history of WIFS, and the finer points of mischief-making.
It goes without saying that Halloween is a big night in New York City and even with the likes of Gwar and the Parliament Funkadelic putting on competing shows within the borders of the Big Apple WIFS loyal Infernites still made their way to the National Polish Home in Northwest Brooklyn to worship at the altar of the Great Pumpkin. For those who were counted, they were given a real treat of a show for the 20th annual Hallowmas.
It was definitely an intimate affair for World/Inferno and all the Infernites.
On this special evening World/Inferno decided not to open with their usual score “Tattoos Fade” and went instead with “Ich Erinnere Mich An Die Weimarer Republik” and allowed the crowd to sing out the masterful lyrics “I’m a fag, I’m a Jew, how do you do? That’s Mr. Anarchist to you,” but really the whole evening was just one big singalong. The band went through tunes like “Politics of Passing Out,” “The Brother of the Mayor of Bridgewater,” “And Embarked on a Life of Poverty,” “American Mercurial” “Addicted to Bad Ideas,” “Your Younger Man,” and slew of others while the crowd sloshed along dancing, singing, and drinking. WIFS even had their opening act the Lowdown Brass Band jump on stage to add a few extra horns to certain numbers including the opener and “Pumpkin Time.”
With all the costume-clad dancers and the overall design of The Warsaw the whole event kind of felt like a school dance … if your school hired a band fronted by the twisted love child of Frank Sinatra and Elvira who was possibly baptized by satan. But that’s the real fun of Hallowmas, it’s a night to leave the pretension at home and just jump in the Moshpit dressed as Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan.
There was no way Bill and Ted were going to miss this rock show.
After 20-years of being one of New York City’s best kept Halloween secrets World/Inferno says they are ready for 20 more. Hell, when the fans who are now half the age of the band still come out in droves for the chance to party it up with the Pumpkin King it’s easy to see why Hallowmas is still one of the best punk events in NYC and by far the best yearly punk shows still kicking in the Volcano.
The Lowdown Brass Band really takes their name to heart as they decided to get down low onto the venue’s floor to entertain the hordes.
The Lowdown Brass Band and Of Death opened the evening. Lowdown captured the crowd with their marching band style tunes and high energy. While the crusties got to moshing to Of Deaths almost alt-country affectations.
Here’s hoping Travis James and the Acrimonious Assembly of Arsonists can open Hallowmas 21 and hats off to Terricloth and the gang for giving all the miscreants something to do on Halloween until the bars close and the real fun can begin.
So as you may have picked up on if you checked out our photo gallery from the Barb Wire Dolls headline show in Somerville the other night, that show turned out to be the last night the Greek rockers would be joined on the road by Russian ex-pats Svetlanas and South Korean duo 57. The […]
So as you may have picked up on if you checked out our photo gallery from the Barb Wire Dolls headline show in Somerville the other night, that show turned out to be the last night the Greek rockers would be joined on the road by Russian ex-pats Svetlanas and South Korean duo 57.
The night after the show Somerville, MA, the tour made it’s way up Interstate 93 to Manchester, NH. Details from what happened after are still in the “emerging” phase, but it seems a Granite Stater proudly wearing Nazi paraphernalia made his way out to the show. Svetlanas tried to get the staff at the venue, Jewel Nightclub, to take action, and when they failed to do so, the band refused to play. Here’s the statement the band made via social media at the time:
WE DON’T TOLLERATE NAZI PEOPLE AT ANY SVETLANAS SHOW.
For this reason we just cancelled tonight show at Jewel Night Club in Manchester, NH.
Any venue’s owner / promoter hosting a punk show it’s fully responsible for the presence of people wearing nazi symbols of any kind and any band should take a position. We did it.
KEEP IT REAL
From there, things seem to have devolved between the international touring partners. Due what they felt was a lack of support from the headlining Barb Wire Dolls, Svetlanas chose to drop off the remaining twenty dates of this lengthy US tour. Again from the band via social media:
TOUR IS OVER
After the recent events, the countless pubblic and private death threats posts and not receiving, one more time, the support we need from the band we are touring with that refuses to take a clear stand against nazism, WE ARE FORCED to stop this US tour for deep and unresolvible devergences.
We apologize with our fans and supporters but we do have to keep a clear position against ANY kind of violence and discrimination.
Go back to school to learn history kids.
This is SVETLANAS and if you don’t like it GO FUCK YOU SELF
Barb Wire Dolls played in Manchester as scheduled and played again last night in Providence, Rhode Island, as their forty-date tour winds its way south, eventually circling back to Los Angeles. In the early hours of this morning, they released the following statement about the events that followed the Manchester incident that culminated in both Svetlanas AND 57 dropping off the tour:
ANNOUNCEMENT: In the last 7 years we’ve played hundreds and hundreds of shows in lots of countries and we’ve never had any issue with discrimination or hate at our shows…until last night. Let it be known that we don’t tolerate discrimination or hate at our shows because we’re all about sharing the music with good loving vibrations. We’re very saddened to hear that both supporting bands, SVETLANAS and 57, have left the tour as of tonight because of circumstances that happened at last night’s show that involved discrimination and hate from someone we don’t know who attended the show, and because we were contracted to play the show, we still did. We’re very sorry that we didn’t back up the Svetlanas as they told us that we should cancel the show and leave, but at that time we were given false information from others at the venue and not until the today did we find out the full truth…but thats no excuse. We apologize to them. We wish both bands the best and all of our remaining shows will go on as usual – and we’re doing our best to spread more love into this world. It needs it now more than ever.
In order to clarify their point — that it wasn’t just about the Nazi that showed up in Manchester but about the lack of support they felt from their headlining tourmates, Olga Svetlanas and crew posted the following statement about an hour ago:
Reading all these comments and understanding the meaning of our post is being modified or misinterpreted we think it’s time to make it even more clear.
The main reason for us to stop this tour is:
We don’t want and can’t continue to support on or off the stage a band that after a long face to face talk says everyone including nazis are welcome at their show and that an SS skull patch is just an opinion.
We have found many divergences with Barb Wire Dolls during this tour but this is the highest reachable level for us and we cannot accept it.
Their subsequent excuses looks like a pathetic trying to hide the dirt under the carpet and we are glad to announce the S.Korean band 57 decided to leave this ambiguous tour as well.
For better or worse, this story hits fairly close to home for some of us here at Dying Scene, especially yours truly. Obviously we’ve seen and shot both Barb Wire Dolls and Svetlanas a bunch over the years and have gotten to know some members of both bands in person and over social media in the recent past. We were also obviously present at what turned out to be their last show together. But more than that, I was born and raised in southern New Hampshire. I spent years working my day job in Manchester, a stone’s throw from the Jewel Nightclub. I started my show-going career as a New Hampshire-ite (rest in peace The Elvis Room), and I’ve gotten to know some of the people trying to reignite some semblance of a scene in the Granite State. I still return there for shows as much as I can. To say that I’m surprised that a Nazi-adorned show-goer would show up to a club in Manchester, or anywhere else in New Hampshire frankly, would be a lie; I’m saddened, but not surprised, for reasons that I won’t go into now.
It’s 2017. Nazis shouldn’t be a thing. Nazi apologists shouldn’t be a thing. Creating a safe space for hatred at shows because there are “good people on both sides” shouldn’t be a thing. We’ve literally fought wars about this…like three-quarters of a century ago. As shitty as it is for Svetlanas and 57 to have had to deal with, props to both bands for taking a stand. More on this as it develops.
(Editor’s note: All statements are copied directly from each respective band’s social media platforms.)
When the legendary Japanese post-hardcore band FACT disbanded at the end of 2015, the members split into two amazing groups, on one end there’s SHADOWS continuing on a similar sound to FACT, and the other is the more rock oriented Joy Opposites. From their debut album SWIM in 2016, Joy Opposites have found comfort and […]
When the legendary Japanese post-hardcore band FACT disbanded at the end of 2015, the members split into two amazing groups, on one end there’s SHADOWS continuing on a similar sound to FACT, and the other is the more rock oriented Joy Opposites. From their debut album SWIM in 2016, Joy Opposites have found comfort and a sound of their own, and now in their second album Find Hell the band has solidified that sound, whilst exploring out even further.
Find Hell‘s opening track “Blind Dogs” starts with the sound of a tuning radio, before the guitar comes crashing in, a heavy drum beat in the background, before washing into Adam Graham (vocals & guitar) singing softly. The track is an amazing place to start, and forms into a dark base for the rest of the album. Lines such as “… and we wait too long, until we notice that there’s something wrong, with everything and anything” set up an environment of uncertainty, a state where everything isn’t as it should be, which is what the album focuses in on.
There’s some fantastic imagery used in the lyrics throughout Find Hell, from “Your halo has lost it’s shine” in “Head Full of Tongues” to “Cut off my feet my friend, I won’t be running when the sleep comes calling” in “Sleep.” To perfectly compliment Adam’s (and occasionally backing from Imran) vocals flowing from soft words to yelling out, the instruments dip and crest in time, the band all able to accentuate their own individuality on the tracks. The tracks on Find Hell use some interesting sound design and combine different elements to sound complicated at times, but always flowing smoothly, all the pieces falling into place.
“Either/Or” is certainly a standout track which highlights the growth coming into Find Hell, being a much calmer and more melancholic song. “I still believe, I hear them say, what’s done is done, it doesn’t matter anyway,” The track comes as a calm in the center of the album, a contemplative midpoint that feels like the sort of thing you’d lay down and stare at the sky listening to. The track transitions into “Cinnamon,” which starts out at the same level but kicks things back up a bit as it goes on. Then there are tracks such as “Acid Kiss” and “Head Full of Tongues” that place themselves on the opposite end of the spectrum to “Either/Or,” up tempo tracks with an anger and determination behind them. “Acid Kiss” is another one of those standout tracks that I’m sure I’ll be singing along to in my head for weeks, from that opening riff to when the chorus crashes in, to the powerful wind down at the end. A beautiful balance can be found on the final track, the one to see us out, “Good Luck.” Gravity lets us go as the track fades out, capping off a phenomenal album.
Eiji Matsumoto’s creative drumming combined with Tomohiro Takayasu’s always impressive bass provide the perfect base to each track on the album, complimented with both Adam Graham and Imran Siddiqi on guitar pounding out the beats that range from spacey and atmospheric to fast, hard, and loud. Whilst SWIM found their footing and built a base for the Joy Opposites sound, Find Hell shows their very capable range as the band plays with some unique elements and effects. Find Hell shines out in the dark night it places the listener in, with tracks from “Sleep” to “Acid Kiss” soaring to the best the band has put out.
Find Hell is set to drop on November 8th via Hostess Entertainment, but you can listen to “Head Full of Tongues” and “Good Luck” now below.