West Coast punk legends Get Dead are hitting the road. The band has announced tour dates throughout Europe. The tour will begin July and stretch through mid-August. You can find the complete list of tour dates below. Get Dead’s most recent release “Honesty Lives Elsewhere” was released in July of last year on Fat Wreck […]
West Coast punk legends Get Dead are hitting the road. The band has announced tour dates throughout Europe. The tour will begin July and stretch through mid-August.
You can find the complete list of tour dates below.
Get Dead’s most recent release “Honesty Lives Elsewhere” was released in July of last year on Fat Wreck Chords. [Read more…]
Winnipeg based punks Mobina Galore have announced plans for a summer North American tour. The tour will begin in July and stretch across Canada and the US. Joining Mobina Galore on tour will be After the Fall and Heart Attack Kids. You can check out the full list of dates below. Mobina Galore most recently […]
Winnipeg based punks Mobina Galore have announced plans for a summer North American tour. The tour will begin in July and stretch across Canada and the US. Joining Mobina Galore on tour will be After the Fall and Heart Attack Kids.
You can check out the full list of dates below.
Mobina Galore most recently released “Feeling Disconnected” via New Damage Records in February of 2017. [Read more…]
Two of Winnipeg’s best up and coming skate-punk acts, The Uglies and Stickaround, have announced a run of Canadian tour dates kicking off August 18th. See the poster above for dates and locations. The Uglies (formerly known as The Bumpin’ Uglies) released their debut EP last July and are currently working on their debut full-length. […]
Two of Winnipeg’s best up and coming skate-punk acts, The Uglies and Stickaround, have announced a run of Canadian tour dates kicking off August 18th. See the poster above for dates and locations.
The Uglies (formerly known as The Bumpin’ Uglies) released their debut EP last July and are currently working on their debut full-length. Stickaround released their debut EP in May, 2016. Both debuts are worth checking out and you can do so below.
Westfield indie-punks Dead Leaves are set to release their brand new album “Vultures” on August 25 via Take This To Heart Records. Check out “Bloodshot”, the album’s first single, below along with the band’s upcoming US tour dates. “Vultures” is the band’s first release since 2015’s self-titled EP.
Westfield indie-punks Dead Leaves are set to release their brand new album “Vultures” on August 25 via Take This To Heart Records. Check out “Bloodshot”, the album’s first single, below along with the band’s upcoming US tour dates.
“Vultures” is the band’s first release since 2015’s self-titled EP.
Quit your job, shred your bills, and toss out all that Perrier in your fridge. The Dopamines are back with a brand new full length album to remind you that maybe life isn’t all that great but at least alcohol exists. After a five year wait between albums, Tales of Interest carries a lot of […]
Quit your job, shred your bills, and toss out all that Perrier in your fridge. The Dopamines are back with a brand new full length album to remind you that maybe life isn’t all that great but at least alcohol exists. After a five year wait between albums, Tales of Interest carries a lot of weight on its shoulders, but in true Dopamines fashion the band doesn’t really seem to care for the expectations that others have set for them.
Tales of Interest is a darker album. While The Dopamines’ lyrical themes have always struck a chord with the jaded and jobless, the glossy production and brevity of the music added an air of humor to them before. Here, the guitars are heavier than they’ve ever been before, and though it’s not uncommon to hear tones like this coming from a midwestern punk band, it’s new for The Dopamines and it lends a more sinister feeling to lines like “I’ve got so much more drinking to do, mistakes that I’ll consequently blame on you” (“The King of Swilling Powers I, II, III”) and “Sometimes I just want to pull out a gun and shower you all in my brains” (“Business Papers,” a re-recording of the band’s contribution to The Thing That Ate Larry Livermore).
That’s not to say that Tales of Interest is a completely new version of The Dopamines. The album’s second half contains a handful of songs with the classic Dopamines structure (“Pavlovian Fixtures,” “Open Letter,” “Expect the Worst”). They’re just played by a band with more experience and confidence in their abilities, and willing to experiment. “Kalte Ente” is an instrumental tune, “The King of Swilling Powers (Part I, II, III)” is three and a half minutes long, and “083133” contains a harsh breakdown, all things that the Dopamines haven’t done before. The band even recorded the album as a four piece (although they’ve toured and played shows with a second guitarist in the past, they officially added Rad Girlfriend Records founder / Raging Nathans guitarist Josh Goldman to the lineup a few years ago)- another first for the band.
Change isn’t something we might not have wanted from The Dopamines, but it’s certainly something that they needed. Another Expect the Worst or Vices this is not, and Tales of Interest is all the better for it.
4 / 5 stars
RIYL: The Copyrights, Dillinger Four, Rivethead
Philadelphia rock band Dr. Beardface and the Spaceman have released a video for “Shrink Rap”, taken from last month’s album “Here For The Scraps”, out on Altercation Records. You can watch it below. The album is up on Bandcamp now.
Philadelphia rock band Dr. Beardface and the Spaceman have released a video for “Shrink Rap”, taken from last month’s album “Here For The Scraps”, out on Altercation Records.
You can watch it below. The album is up on Bandcamp now. [Read more…]
UK based punk rockers Fights and Fires have announced a European tour (including UK dates) for July. The band recently streamed “Blanquettes”, from their upcoming fourth album “Live Like a Tourist”, out July 14th on Lockjaw Records. You can check out the full list of dates below.
UK based punk rockers Fights and Fires have announced a European tour (including UK dates) for July. The band recently streamed “Blanquettes”, from their upcoming fourth album “Live Like a Tourist”, out July 14th on Lockjaw Records.
You can check out the full list of dates below. [Read more…]
Gainesville, FL acoustic punk act Coffee Project released their new, 4 song EP.,‘Wasted Love’, last Friday (16th June) via A-F Records. The duo, comprising Jake Crown (Savage Brewtality) and Buddy Schaub (Less Than Jake) have the EP for sale on their Bandcamp. You can have a listen to the whole EP below.
Gainesville, FL acoustic punk act Coffee Project released their new, 4 song EP.,‘Wasted Love’, last Friday (16th June) via A-F Records. The duo, comprising Jake Crown (Savage Brewtality) and Buddy Schaub (Less Than Jake) have the EP for sale on their Bandcamp.
You can have a listen to the whole EP below.
Off The Avenue, the new pop punk project formed by Seven Thirty Seven frontman Mike Geraci, have announced a series of live session videos. The first of the 3 planned, monthly offerings is for “On The Edge”, the band’s debut single. They have promised a cover and a new track will make up the next two […]
Off The Avenue, the new pop punk project formed by Seven Thirty Seven frontman Mike Geraci, have announced a series of live session videos. The first of the 3 planned, monthly offerings is for “On The Edge”, the band’s debut single.
They have promised a cover and a new track will make up the next two sessions. You can watch this one below.
Less Than Jake have announced their sixth annual hometown Wake and Bake Weekend. Taking place on September 1st and 2nd at High Dive in downtown Gainesville, the 2-night stand will feature support from Radon, Inner Circle (the “Bad Boys” band), Coffee Project, and more. More details and ticket links can be found below. VIP packages that include access […]
Less Than Jake have announced their sixth annual hometown Wake and Bake Weekend. Taking place on September 1st and 2nd at High Dive in downtown Gainesville, the 2-night stand will feature support from Radon, Inner Circle (the “Bad Boys” band), Coffee Project, and more.
More details and ticket links can be found below. VIP packages that include access to an acoustic set, silent auction, meet and greets and more are available on the band’s webstore.