Boston punk band OC45 is fresh off of some dates opening for Teenage Bottlerocket, and they are hitting the road again this fall with shows across the South and West. You can find all of the dates and check out their latest album, Happy Accidents, below.
Boston punk band OC45 is fresh off of some dates opening for Teenage Bottlerocket, and they are hitting the road again this fall with shows across the South and West.
You can find all of the dates and check out their latest album, Happy Accidents, below.
New York singer/songwriter Kevin Devine has announced the release of ‘We Are Who We’ve Always Been’, a stripped down reimagining of his 2016 release Instigator. The album will be out on October 20th via Procrastinate! Music Traitors and Triple Crown Records. Head down below to check out first single ‘I Was Alive Back Then’ (feat. Half Waif). […]
New York singer/songwriter Kevin Devine has announced the release of ‘We Are Who We’ve Always Been’, a stripped down reimagining of his 2016 release Instigator. The album will be out on October 20th via Procrastinate! Music Traitors and Triple Crown Records. Head down below to check out first single ‘I Was Alive Back Then’ (feat. Half Waif).
Kevin Devine recently joined Brand New as a touring member. [Read more…]
Canada’s Lost Love and Northern Ireland’s Empty Lungs will be touring through the UK and EU together throughout November and into the wee early days of December. You can find the tour dates for the pair of indie-punks below.
Canada’s Lost Love and Northern Ireland’s Empty Lungs will be touring through the UK and EU together throughout November and into the wee early days of December. You can find the tour dates for the pair of indie-punks below. [Read more…]
LA’s Emmer Effer is streaming four tracks from their upcoming album, “From the Bottom Down.” The LA hardcore band will be releasing the album on October 6th on Felony Records. If you’re in the mood for some hardcore, check out the stream below!
LA’s Emmer Effer is streaming four tracks from their upcoming album, “From the Bottom Down.” The LA hardcore band will be releasing the album on October 6th on Felony Records. If you’re in the mood for some hardcore, check out the stream below! [Read more…]
Philadelphia’s Mannequin Pussy have premiered a new video for “Emotional High.” The song is off their album “Romantic,” released in 2016 on Tiny Engines. If you’re a fan of folks having a good time (and who isn’t? What are you, some kind of fucking monster?), check out the video below!
Philadelphia’s Mannequin Pussy have premiered a new video for “Emotional High.” The song is off their album “Romantic,” released in 2016 on Tiny Engines.
If you’re a fan of folks having a good time (and who isn’t? What are you, some kind of fucking monster?), check out the video below! [Read more…]
More new music from Long Island this fall as Backtrack announce their next album, “Bad To My World” will be released on November 17 via Bridge Nine Records. You can check out the video for “Sanity” and upcoming tour dates at Alternative Press.
More new music from Long Island this fall as Backtrack announce their next album, “Bad To My World” will be released on November 17 via Bridge Nine Records.
You can check out the video for “Sanity” and upcoming tour dates at Alternative Press.
English punks Clobber are streaming their new EP “Vote” You can give it a listen here. The new album is the second release for the band. It comes on the heels of September 2016’s self titled album. If your a fan of Ten Foot Pole and Booze and Glory these guys manage to incorporate the […]
English punks Clobber are streaming their new EP “Vote”
You can give it a listen here.
The new album is the second release for the band. It comes on the heels of September 2016’s self titled album. If your a fan of Ten Foot Pole and Booze and Glory these guys manage to incorporate the best of both sounds, be sure to give it a listen. [Read more…]
Dying Scene is proud to premiere the brand new lyric video for “2049,” the first single from Wicked Bears‘ forthcoming album Tuning Out. It features flying cars, satellites, and lots of words (because it’s a lyric video). Fans of Masked Intruder, Teenage Bottlerocket and the like will eat this up. Take a look below! Tuning […]
Dying Scene is proud to premiere the brand new lyric video for “2049,” the first single from Wicked Bears‘ forthcoming album Tuning Out. It features flying cars, satellites, and lots of words (because it’s a lyric video).
Fans of Masked Intruder, Teenage Bottlerocket and the like will eat this up. Take a look below! Tuning Out is slated to be released October 13th via Hidden Home Records.
When it comes to punk rock, the talent pool in Los Angeles is one of the deepest in the country. Every neighborhood from the docks of San Pedro to the sleepy desert towns of The Antelope Valley, boasts its own small, locally grown act that in other cities, would be headliners. Fare Game is a […]
When it comes to punk rock, the talent pool in Los Angeles is one of the deepest in the country. Every neighborhood from the docks of San Pedro to the sleepy desert towns of The Antelope Valley, boasts its own small, locally grown act that in other cities, would be headliners. Fare Game is a perfect example of such a band. In the few months that they’ve been a tangible band, they’ve played a ton of local shows (as well as two festivals) and quickly become favorites in the local scene. Featuring former members of LightSpeedGo and Kill Radio (among others), this quartet seeps talent and experience from their pores, and with a blue collar work ethic, they are already well on their way to becoming one of LA’s premium punk acts. Today, we’re pleased to premiere this emerging young act’s debut EP, Breakin’ Rules in it’s entirety! The six and a half track album (ya don’t get full credit for “30 Sec Song”, sorry guys!) is the perfect introduction! Check it out, exclusively here at Dying Scene, below!
AJJ’s Back in the Jazz Coffin was a nice little mid-summer surprise. There was no announcement about its release, and what little promotion there was for the mini-album has already taken a backseat to the band’s current tour celebrating the tenth anniversary of People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World. […]
AJJ’s Back in the Jazz Coffin was a nice little mid-summer surprise. There was no announcement about its release, and what little promotion there was for the mini-album has already taken a backseat to the band’s current tour celebrating the tenth anniversary of People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World. Which is okay, because even though Back in the Jazz Coffin is a fine listen it’s not exactly essential.
Back in the Jazz Coffin is mostly notable for scaling things back. The band has stripped away most of the instrumentation and members that they’ve added over the year, leaving the duo of Sean Bonnette and Ben Gallaty, best known as the band’s “classic lineup.” This lends a slight “back to basics” feeling on this album, so if your major complaints about Christmas Island and The Bible 2 were more about the oddball production and stylistic choices rather than the lyrical content, then this collection is for you. However, keep in mind that this is still the same band that did record the aforementioned albums, so even though they’ve scaled back here it’s still slicker than the bathroom recording quality of Plant Your Roots.
“American Body Rentals” is the band’s best intro track since “The Michael Jordan of Drunk Driving” off Knife Man, which is to say, rather than being a full fledged song, it’s a quick ditty that’s over in a flash but still manages to conjure up lyrically absurd images. Unfortunately, it’s mostly middle-of-the-road stuff from there. “Blood, Hatred, Money & Rage 2” and “Border Patrol (Yuma)” have some redeeming qualities: the former has some fun with words in the chorus (“blood, hatred, money and rage / that’s the food I eat / that’s the juicebox I crave”) and the latter would slide in easily somewhere between “Backpack” and “Linda Ronstadt.” The same can’t really be said for “My Crooked Leg,” which is just kind of there.
The highlight of this collection is the final track, “Fuckboi.” In true AJJ fashion, the song tells an uncomfortable tale with coming to terms about being a terrible human in the past, and having to live with that in the present. “I don’t deserve the chance to say I’m sorry but I must because I have to live with me. I have to live inside of me,” the narrator sings to a pregnant woman that he previously mistreated. It’s not easy to come to terms with realizing the awful things you’ve said or done in the past- and it’s even harder when you realize that no matter how badly you feel about it, you’ll never feel as badly as you made them feel and saying “sorry” isn’t going to be enough to heal every wound. As uncomfortable as it can make the listener feel, “Fuckboi” is AJJ at the top of their game.
Back in the Jazz Coffin will be fun to revisit occasionally, but first and final tracks aside, it doesn’t make a very big splash in AJJ’s discography. Completists and fanatics will gobble it up, but the casual listener is best off waiting for the next LP that gets the full promotional treatment instead of a single Facebook post.
3 / 5 Stars
You can stream Back in the Jazz Coffin below.
RIYL: Ramshackle Glory, Mischief Brew, Mountains Goats (circa 2002) [Read more…]