California “maximum R&B surf stompers” The Atom Age have released a video for their new single “Walk Through Walls”. The song comes from the band’s upcoming album Cry Til’ You Die, which is due out August 23rd via Tiger Dream and Asian Man Records. The video features shots of the band playing, as well as some BDSM between […]
California “maximum R&B surf stompers” The Atom Age have released a video for their new single “Walk Through Walls”. The song comes from the band’s upcoming album Cry Til’ You Die, which is due out August 23rd via Tiger Dream and Asian Man Records. The video features shots of the band playing, as well as some BDSM between a leather clad human-dog and an actual dog, at least that’s my take on it.
Laura Jane Grace and The Devouring Mothers have released a video for “The Hotel Song”, which came from the band’s début album Bought To Rot. The video features all the comforts of a modern-day motel room, animated to keep it fresh. Laura Jane Grace had this to say about the song: “’The Hotel Song’ is my tribute to […]
Laura Jane Grace and The Devouring Mothers have released a video for “The Hotel Song”, which came from the band’s début album Bought To Rot. The video features all the comforts of a modern-day motel room, animated to keep it fresh. Laura Jane Grace had this to say about the song: “’The Hotel Song’ is my tribute to hotel and motel rooms across the world,” Grace says. “Regardless of bed sheet thread count, shampoo and conditioner quality, or Wi-Fi speed, I am thankful to all the rented rooms that have offered me refugee & rest over the years while touring across the world.”
As mentioned above, Bought To Rot is the début record for Laura Jane Grace and The Devouring Mothers. The band is also headed over? down? to Australia for a string of shows, which you will find below the new video. [Read more…]
Chicago hardcore act The Kreutzer Sonata are streaming a pair of songs off of their upcoming album The Rosehill Gates which is scheduled to be released June 28th. “Fast Times” and “Glory Daze” are the first two bites we get from the new album, and for fans of hardcore neither disappoints. Check out the new songs below. […]
Chicago hardcore act The Kreutzer Sonata are streaming a pair of songs off of their upcoming album The Rosehill Gates which is scheduled to be released June 28th. “Fast Times” and “Glory Daze” are the first two bites we get from the new album, and for fans of hardcore neither disappoints.
This is the first new music from The Kreutzer Sonata since their 2018 release The Gutters of Paradise. If you’re a fan of Suicidal Tendencies or Madball you’ll enjoy The Kreutzer Sonata. [Read more…]
Lagwagon singer and acoustic extraordinaire Joey Cape is streaming the second song “The Love Of My Life” off of his upcoming acoustic album Let Me Know When You Give Up. The new song has a bit of a country feel to it, and as always Joey’s ability to pen an amazing story to go with the […]
Lagwagon singer and acoustic extraordinaire Joey Cape is streaming the second song “The Love Of My Life” off of his upcoming acoustic album Let Me Know When You Give Up. The new song has a bit of a country feel to it, and as always Joey’s ability to pen an amazing story to go with the soft sounds of his acoustic guitar. Joey had this to say about the new song: “It’s a simple tune and a vague love song about music and where our relationship began. I spent the first half of my life in Southern California and the last thirty-odd years in Northern Cal. The south is blissful, beautiful, over-populated and lonely. On a hot day it feels like it may catch fire, maybe for its sins.” Well said Joey.
The new album is due out July 5th through Fat Wreck Chords, you can head on over here to pre-order your copy now.
There are few things that make me happier than hearing from the Taxpayer camp. The Taxpayers, if you don’t remember, were the incredibly political, folky, punky, jazzy, and just plain volatile punk band from Portland, OR; they released such incredible albums as God, Forgive These Bastards: Songs From The Forgotten Life Of Henry Turner, Big Delusion Factory, […]
There are few things that make me happier than hearing from the Taxpayer camp. The Taxpayers, if you don’t remember, were the incredibly political, folky, punky, jazzy, and just plain volatile punk band from Portland, OR; they released such incredible albums as God, Forgive These Bastards: Songs From The Forgotten Life Of Henry Turner, Big Delusion Factory, and Cold Hearted Town.
The Taxpayers are gone for the time being but the people in it aren’t, and by the good graces of DIY, five members have come together to form the Trusty Snakes. The album’s called New American Frontier and it’s surprisingly a pretty earnest country album. And better yet: it’s great fucking music. The songwriting is melancholy and down to earth, blue collar and twangy, born out of a love for a uniquely American storytelling tradition.
Noah Taxpayer had this to say on the band’s beginning:
“Touring around the country and playing grimy punk shows, which we love, we found ourselves buying a lot of cassette tapes. And a lot of them ended up being country. Some obvious well-known artists and weird ass compilations of songs about the nuttiest country-fried nonsense. We loved them all. Getting older and our sensibilities changing, country seemed to be the appropriate next step for us as a band. A lot of the same values of being a DIY punk resonates within country music. So we became the Snakes. Writing songs about redemption, sadness, hopelessness, inspiration, heartache, and joy.”
While it may not be straight punk, there’s still a lot to say for the form and its relation to punk’s base tenets. Here is music made for the working class, by the working class—a realm of experience oft forgotten, preserved here in the oral tradition. Check out the album below.
Montreal-based Jerkswitch have just released an album on Thousand Islands Records. The band has formed out of the ashes of The SkudFux, who parted ways a few months ago, and their debut effort is titled “BUFO”. Their sound is raw and garagy with elements of ska and even some chilled out almost psychedelic sections occasionally […]
Montreal-based Jerkswitch have just released an album on Thousand Islands Records. The band has formed out of the ashes of The SkudFux, who parted ways a few months ago, and their debut effort is titled “BUFO”. Their sound is raw and garagy with elements of ska and even some chilled out almost psychedelic sections occasionally thrown into the mix.
Veteran melodic punk rock outfit Craig’s Brother have a special new single out. It’s was written for the daughter of the band’s vocalist, Ted Bond. The video for the effort shows a video call between Ted and daughter Meilynn during which he shows her the track for the first time. It’s genuinely heartwarming stuff and […]
Veteran melodic punk rock outfit Craig’s Brother have a special new single out. It’s was written for the daughter of the band’s vocalist, Ted Bond. The video for the effort shows a video call between Ted and daughter Meilynn during which he shows her the track for the first time. It’s genuinely heartwarming stuff and a ripper of a tune to boot. I’d be well chuffed if my Dad could knock out banging melodic punk rock like that!
You can check out “Follow Your Heart-Meilynn’s Song” below. It also features on the band’s recently released EP, The Devil’s in the Details, as well as Indie Vision Music’s Family & Friends Sampler Vol. 1.
Chicago skate punk legends Much The Same are back with a new album. It’s called Everything is Fine and to get you lot in the mood for it, the band have put out a video for lead single “Snakes in the Grass”. Everything Is Fine will feature nine brand new tracks and if “Snakes in the Grass” is […]
Chicago skate punk legends Much The Same are back with a new album. It’s called Everything is Fine and to get you lot in the mood for it, the band have put out a video for lead single “Snakes in the Grass”.
Everything Is Fine will feature nine brand new tracks and if “Snakes in the Grass” is anything to go by, it’ll be a belter. The record is due to be released on 26 July 2019 in partnership with Lockjaw Records in the UK & Europe, Thousand Islands Records in Canada, and Pee Records in Australia.
Check out “Snakes in the Grass” below and if you like it be sure to pre-order your copy here. The LP of Everything is Fine is available in two funky colour variations and the band also have the 2006 classic Survive on vinyl for the first time ever.
Portland, Maine’s Roseview have released a music video for an acoustic version of their song “December.” The band have teamed up with the super talented ballerina, Rhiannon Gurrette, to create a video that apparently documents the the struggles the band have dealt with both personally and collectively. The track is the first with the band’s new vocalist, […]
Portland, Maine’s Roseview have released a music video for an acoustic version of their song “December.” The band have teamed up with the super talented ballerina, Rhiannon Gurrette, to create a video that apparently documents the the struggles the band have dealt with both personally and collectively.
The track is the first with the band’s new vocalist, Keanu Papassavas. He shared the following about “December”:
“‘December’ is about working through your pain. Every step of the journey is important and part of the bigger picture. You must keep moving forward, no matter how hard it is.”
Equipped with their new singer, Roseview will be hitting the road this summer, supporting Rarity as a part of the “The Longest Lonesome Tour.” In addition, the band will be playing Roadblock Music Festival in Providence, RI on July 27th alongside Bad Religion, The Menzingers, and Charly Bliss.
You can check out the video for “December”, as well as more details about the shows below.
I read an interview with Frank Iero the other day in which he talked about his musical career, and in the process of doing so he mentioned – and I’m paraphrasing here because I can’t find the original quote – that he enjoys the honeymoon period of a new project where you don’t really know […]
I read an interview with Frank Iero the other day in which he talked about his musical career, and in the process of doing so he mentioned – and I’m paraphrasing here because I can’t find the original quote – that he enjoys the honeymoon period of a new project where you don’t really know what it’s going to turn out like and you’re nervous but excited because you get to figure that out together. When Iero brought his newest project, Frank Iero and the Future Violents, through Boston this past Sunday, barely 48 hours after the release of their debut album Barriers, the excitement was palpable and contagious for an obvious reason: Frank Iero and the Future Violents are a goddamn live freight train.
If you haven’t been keeping score at home, The Future Violents feature Iero and his frequent collaborator/guitarist/brother-in-law Evan Nestor joined by a few longtime scene heavyweights: Tucker Rule of Thursday and a bunch of other bands on drums, Murder By Death’s Matt Armstrong on bass and Kayleigh Goldsworthy of Dave Hause’s band The Mermaid and most importantly her own solo career on…well…just about every other instrument you can think of. Formed after the Iero and Nestor’s ill-fated and nearly fatal trip to Australia with their last project, Frank Iero and the Patience, a couple years ago, The Future Violents are rooted in Iero’s power punk songwriting core with some new sonic textures in the mix. In spite of having a comparatively few shows together under their collective belts, the Future Violents rhythm section of Rule and Armstrong is lock-tight and thunderous already. Rule hits hard and heavy, and is comparable maybe only to the great Atom Willard in terms of sheer live force, while Armstrong’s low end rattled SO low that I could quite literally feel my sinuses shaking. Iero and Nestor are simpatico from having played and performed so long together; they seem to have a knack for playing in support of one another without crowding each other’s sonic space. Goldsworthy’s parts, particularly the violin, seemed a little buried in the mix, though that might be just me projecting what I was seeing (with the stage set up, she was kinda buried behind the PA suspended from the ceiling in front of stage right) onto what I was hearing. That said, The Future Violents are hands-down Iero’s best project to date, and the near-capacity crowd seemed to cathartically, energetically eat up every word (well…except the poor kid who lost a tooth).
Support on this leg of Frank Iero and the Future Violents’ run comes from none other than James Dewees playing songs from his brainchild project, Reggie And The Full Effect. Dewees and Iero have been long time buds and collaborators – Iero did a stint in Reggie that coinicided with Dewees’ own stint alongside Iero in My Chemical Romance – and it makes an old emo kid like myself happy to see such longtime vets still supporting and playing with each other. Dewees’ set was essentially “Story Time with James,” as he told tangential tales of creating characters and his history with Iero and the early days of the Emo Night In Brooklyn movement, though he did manage to get to a few full or at least partial songs, accompanied by either a laptop or what I’m 95% sure was a pretty awesome British racing green version of Iero’s custom Epiphone Phant-O-Matic double cutaway guitars. While maybe not the most astute Reggie and the Full Effect fans, the bulk of the crowd was more than good-naturedly engaged with Dewees’ set, breaking out into full supportive chants on more than one occasion.
Head below for a bunch more pictures from the evening!
