Coercion, which features members of Good Riddance, Death By Stereo, The Lonely Kings, Fury 66, and Ghost Parade, have released a video for their single “Choices.” The band is currently writing a full length record. They released an EP, “Exit Wounds,” on Bird Attack last year. They have three upcoming shows in CA in the […]
Coercion, which features members of Good Riddance, Death By Stereo, The Lonely Kings, Fury 66, and Ghost Parade, have released a video for their single “Choices.”
The band is currently writing a full length record. They released an EP, “Exit Wounds,” on Bird Attack last year. They have three upcoming shows in CA in the next few weeks. Check out the video and the tour dates below! [Read more…]
If you’re going to be in Philadelphia on August 12th, be sure to pack your fanciest pants for the PunkNews Summer Soiree. World/Inferno Friendship Society will be headlining, with Posers, Crazy and the Brains, and Pushin’ It 2 the Limit supporting. Along with live music, there will be punk trivia, a dating game, goodie bags, […]
If you’re going to be in Philadelphia on August 12th, be sure to pack your fanciest pants for the PunkNews Summer Soiree. World/Inferno Friendship Society will be headlining, with Posers, Crazy and the Brains, and Pushin’ It 2 the Limit supporting.
Along with live music, there will be punk trivia, a dating game, goodie bags, and cassettes because some of you are apparently too young to remember what a terrible format that was.
Seriously though, imagine paying for an album and it just breaks while you’re rewinding it.
Rewinding was a thing you used to have to do when your music or video got to the end. Instead of, you know, hitting a button or dropping a needle in a different location, you ran your dainty media at a high speed and prayed to sweet zombie Jesus that the tape wouldn’t snap.
Cassettes suck.
But this show won’t suck, so you should check it out if you’re in Philly in mid-August!
Sleep In have made their new EP available to stream a few days ahead of its June 23rd release. You can check it out over at PunkNews. The EP is the band’s debut release on Black Numbers. They’ll be touring through July with Fossil Youth. You can find the dates below.
Sleep In have made their new EP available to stream a few days ahead of its June 23rd release. You can check it out over at PunkNews.
The EP is the band’s debut release on Black Numbers. They’ll be touring through July with Fossil Youth. You can find the dates below.
Vowel-less Australians SNDWNR have released a new track. “Bodies” is the first of a series of new songs. Stream the song below, and check out their bandcamp page to hear their previous EPs. Thankfully, they do make use of vowels in their vocals.
Vowel-less Australians SNDWNR have released a new track. “Bodies” is the first of a series of new songs.
Stream the song below, and check out their bandcamp page to hear their previous EPs.
Thankfully, they do make use of vowels in their vocals.
Detroit hardcore outfit Backswing have debuted their video “Still Sick” off their upcoming EP, “SOS.” The EP will be released on August 25th via Demons Run Amok. Check out the video below!
Detroit hardcore outfit Backswing have debuted their video “Still Sick” off their upcoming EP, “SOS.”
The EP will be released on August 25th via Demons Run Amok. Check out the video below!
What better way to start out summer with some sick skate punk? Unsigned have you covered with their new EP, “Anarchy in the Middle East.” You can check out the stream below and at their bandcamp page, along with their previous EP, “Mass Production.”
What better way to start out summer with some sick skate punk? Unsigned have you covered with their new EP, “Anarchy in the Middle East.”
You can check out the stream below and at their bandcamp page, along with their previous EP, “Mass Production.” [Read more…]
Hey look, Rise Against released a new album. Wolves is the band’s eighth full length studio album, and if you haven’t accepted the fact that they’ve settled into a very specific sound by now, you’re in for a world of disappointment. It’s been eleven years (!) since the band put out The Sufferer & the […]
Hey look, Rise Against released a new album. Wolves is the band’s eighth full length studio album, and if you haven’t accepted the fact that they’ve settled into a very specific sound by now, you’re in for a world of disappointment. It’s been eleven years (!) since the band put out The Sufferer & the Witness, and other than switching out one guitarist for another, very little else has changed since then. Whether that’s a pro or a con is up to the listener.
Wolves is full of melodic-punk songs that could easily be interchanged with tracks off The Black Market without anyone noticing. That sounds like an insult, but it’s not meant to be one. Much like many of their Fat Wreck and Epitaph contemporaries, Rise Against have found their comfort zone and are sticking to it. Sure, Tim unleashes his scream here and there, like in the title track or “Too Many Walls” and there’s a hint of ska in “Bullshit” but the album is largely filled with 3 and a half minute songs that coast the line between societal politics and personal politics and are loaded with plenty of harmonizing “whoas.” Sometimes it pays off (“House on Fire” and “Mourning in Amerika” are catchy enough to satisfy anyone who enjoyed past singles “Tragedy + Time” and “Audience of One”) and sometimes it doesn’t (“Far from Perfect,” and “Politics of Love” aren’t terrible, but they’re certainly not memorable either).
“Megaphone” and “Broadcast[Signal]Frequency” are among the best songs on the album and it’s a shame that they’ve been relegated to bonus track status. Both are fast and aggressive- two traits that are often missing from the band’s current output. If you’re only going to listen to a handful of songs from the album, make it these two. They don’t accurately reflect the album proper, but to put it bluntly, these two songs are to Wolves what “Grammatizor” and “Voice of Dissent” were to Appeal to Reason.
Wolves might be Rise Against’s safest album yet. If you can get past that, however, Wolves isn’t all that bad of an album.
3 / 5 stars
RIYL: Anti-Flag, Pennywise, Bad Religion
Dyingscene favourites MakeWar recently took out the time to perform their single ‘Ode’ for the people over at Live! From The Rock Room. You can watch the video below. Catch MakeWar hitting the East Coast (/w Nothington and Joe McMahon) in a few days.
Dyingscene favourites MakeWar recently took out the time to perform their single ‘Ode’ for the people over at Live! From The Rock Room. You can watch the video below.
Catch MakeWar hitting the East Coast (/w Nothington and Joe McMahon) in a few days. [Read more…]
Scranton punks Captain, We’re Sinking have premiered their long-awaited new full length. ‘The King of No Man’ won’t be out until the 23rd of June, but you can already give it a listen below. If you dig it, you can pick up a copy via the Run For Cover webshop. ‘The King of No Man’ is […]
Scranton punks Captain, We’re Sinking have premiered their long-awaited new full length. ‘The King of No Man’ won’t be out until the 23rd of June, but you can already give it a listen below.
If you dig it, you can pick up a copy via the Run For Cover webshop.
‘The King of No Man’ is the band’s first release since their amazing 2013 album ‘The Future Is Cancelled’. [Read more…]
Pop-punks from the Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan Good Grief have announced they will be releasing a new EP titled HOME. You can find the tracklist below. Home will be Good Grief’s second EP, following their debut EP No Perfect, which was released on December 18, 2016. The 3 track EP is set to drop on […]
Pop-punks from the Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan Good Grief have announced they will be releasing a new EP titled HOME. You can find the tracklist below.
Home will be Good Grief’s second EP, following their debut EP No Perfect, which was released on December 18, 2016. The 3 track EP is set to drop on August 11, and will feature the track “Pavements” from their 3-way split with KICKASSRAY and See You Smile.