Chicago pop-punk act Allister have released the music videos for 2 songs, Free and Runaway, off of their upcoming album Countdown To Nowhere. You can check out the album artwork <<==here== Embedding is disabled by request so click here to watch the Free and here to watch Runaway. Countdown To Nowhere, their first album since […]
Chicago pop-punk act Allister have released the music videos for 2 songs, Free and Runaway, off of their upcoming album Countdown To Nowhere. You can check out the album artwork <<==here==
Embedding is disabled by request so click here to watch the Free and here to watch Runaway.
Countdown To Nowhere, their first album since 2005’s Before The Blackout (on Drive-Thru Records), is scheduled to be released July 16th in Japan on. There’s still no word on when the album will be released in the US.
Recently re-formed pop punk act Rufio have filled up September with additional dates for their Summer/Autumn tour. The September dates will see the band visit Canada and the Northern Midwest/Eastern states. To check out the full tour dates, click here. Rufio’s last album Comfort Of Home was released in 2005
Recently re-formed pop punk act Rufio have filled up September with additional dates for their Summer/Autumn tour.
The September dates will see the band visit Canada and the Northern Midwest/Eastern states. To check out the full tour dates, click here.
Rufio’s last album Comfort Of Home was released in 2005 [Read more…]
Los Angeles political punk outfit DC Fallout have signed to Felony Records. They will be releasing their newest full-length Retreat! on Felony Records on June 8th. The tracklisting for the album can be found here. Felony Records is starting a new compilation series called Comps for a Cause that will feature rare/new tracks from the […]
Los Angeles political punk outfit DC Fallout have signed to Felony Records. They will be releasing their newest full-length Retreat! on Felony Records on June 8th. The tracklisting for the album can be found here.
Felony Records is starting a new compilation series called Comps for a Cause that will feature rare/new tracks from the bands on, and associated with, Felony Records. All the digital proceeds from each comp will benefit a specific charity.
The first volume’s proceeds will go towards the American Red Cross. If the timing works, DC Fallout is hoping to go back into the studio to record a new/unreleased song for the comp.
The band is going on tour this summer. Check out the full dates and locations here.
In what is quickly becoming one of the most anticipated albums of 2010, for me at least, The Amity Affliction have posted the title track from the upcoming album on their MySpace Page. There isn’t long to wait, Youngbloods, will be released on June 18 through Boomtown/Shock Records. The band have also uploaded 30 second […]
In what is quickly becoming one of the most anticipated albums of 2010, for me at least, The Amity Affliction have posted the title track from the upcoming album on their MySpace Page. There isn’t long to wait, Youngbloods, will be released on June 18 through Boomtown/Shock Records.
The band have also uploaded 30 second previews of each song from the forthcoming release on iTunes.
Amity released their debut album, Severed Ties, in 2008 through Boomtown Records.
Fires Of Waco have just released their debut EP, In The Wake Of…, through Arrest Records – Australia. You can listen to the tracks Risk and Reason and Light Years Away from the release over on the bands MySpace Page. The band features ex-members of The Gifthorse, Just Say Go!, Reach Out and Values Here.
Fires Of Waco have just released their debut EP, In The Wake Of…, through Arrest Records – Australia. You can listen to the tracks Risk and Reason and Light Years Away from the release over on the bands MySpace Page.
The band features ex-members of The Gifthorse, Just Say Go!, Reach Out and Values Here.
Ever wonder where some bands come up with their band names? Well, we do, and we’re sick of sitting around scratching our heads about it. We’re hitting the streets (aka. “Internet”) to find the origins behind some of the more bizarre, intriguing or just plain random band names in the scene. Every Wednesday we’ll be […]
Ever wonder where some bands come up with their band names? Well, we do, and we’re sick of sitting around scratching our heads about it. We’re hitting the streets (aka. “Internet”) to find the origins behind some of the more bizarre, intriguing or just plain random band names in the scene. Every Wednesday we’ll be pulling the curtain back on a different band and this week it’s Toronto hardcore act Cancer Bats
This story is relatively simple. Basically, Cancer Bats lead singer, Liam Cormier, wanted something “dark” for a band name. He figured it would be cool to mix a disease name with an animal and after throwing out the initial “Pneumonia Hawk” he eventually landed on “Cancer Bats” and the rest is history. Incidentally, the band has a track off their “Birthing The Giant” album named “Pneumonia Hawk”. You can check out the music video for it here.
Check out last week’s Band Name Origin story: 88 Fingers Louie
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Maps, the debut EP by pop-punker’s Mixtapes, might not be a groundbreaking album that shatters all previous conceptions of pop-punk, but it is fun. In fact, it may be the most “fun” album to come out in a really long time.
These days, with the over abundance of MySpace music profiles and a new free EP being released just about every day, it is becoming harder and harder to standout as a band. Most musicians these days tend to feel they need to be unique to catch the ear of a new listener, and while that may occasionally work, there’s still a lot more to be said for putting out something quality vs. something different. Sometimes, it’s nice to hear a new version of something you already love. Mixtapes do this perfectly.
Three chord punk, boy and girl vocal harmonization, dance worthy beats, and an overall feel good vibe, Maps is a culmination of everything enjoyable in pop-punk. In standard pop-punk form, Mixtapes moves back and forth between energetic, electric anthems and slower, acoustic ballads. The band tears through 10 songs in 18 minutes opening with a steadily building track, “Sunrise”, which sets the tone for next couple of tracks, building energy until the fist pumping, group sung chorus at the end of the third track, “Nothing Can Kill The Grimace”. If you’re not pounding your steering wheel, middle finger up, singing along to “F*CK! the world, now I feel a little better!…” feeling like you can take on the world, you’re just not listening to this song loud enough.
From this point on the album alternates between the slower, lamenting tunes of the teenage wallflower to energetic, feel good tracks that make sunny days seem all the more brighter. The track The Mixtapes Misplaced Missed Takes is a 44 second sonic party. Guitar thirds open the (early) MxPx influenced track, and it’s a non-stop heart racer while the album closer, “Sunsets” sets a gloomy tune employing female (and last name-less) vocalist Maura’s distraught, yet sweet-sounding voice to tip-toe over palm-muted power chords.
Maps may only be 18 minutes long, but in this case, less is certainly more. Packed full of pleasure, this EP has without a doubt made Mixtapes the band of the summer.
On October 13th, 2009 Burning Streets released their first LP, Is it in Black and White? on Sailor’s Grave Records. Backed by the release and a few Canada and US tours, the band’s popularity grew amongst the street punk scene and a few weeks ago Lyz Manikas cornered the fellas in their van outside the […]
On October 13th, 2009 Burning Streets released their first LP, Is it in Black and White? on Sailor’s Grave Records. Backed by the release and a few Canada and US tours, the band’s popularity grew amongst the street punk scene and a few weeks ago Lyz Manikas cornered the fellas in their van outside the “Home for the Troops” show for a few questions.
Check out the interview here.
Female fronted hardcore act Offsides are streaming a Chain Of Strength cover for the song The Space Between on their MySpace page. The song will appear on an upcoming Chain Of Strength tribute album. Offsides released the EP It’s A Struggle To Communicate on Get Outta Town Records in July of 2008
Female fronted hardcore act Offsides are streaming a Chain Of Strength cover for the song The Space Between on their MySpace page. The song will appear on an upcoming Chain Of Strength tribute album.
Offsides released the EP It’s A Struggle To Communicate on Get Outta Town Records in July of 2008
Voodoo Glowskulls have premiered a video for a brand new song titled Dead Soldiers and you can check it out right here. Reminds me of the movie “Nightmare Before Christmas” – kinda cool. The track will appear on the band’s upcoming album – no word yet on the release date or album title but we’ll […]
Voodoo Glowskulls have premiered a video for a brand new song titled Dead Soldiers and you can check it out right here. Reminds me of the movie “Nightmare Before Christmas” – kinda cool. The track will appear on the band’s upcoming album – no word yet on the release date or album title but we’ll keep you posted.
Voodoo Glow Skulls released their last album, Southern California Street Music on Victory Records in 2007.