Elm Tree Circle – Iserlohn, Germany Situated somewhere between a contrastingly more mature Emo Rock, Pop-Punk and Alternative Rock, Elm Tree Circle and NO FOMO export their craft from Iserlohn, Germany, via Vancouver, Cologne and Dortmund on the back of the prolific Krod Records. Elm Tree Circle, it is safe to say, are both a mainstay
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Friday Night Lights – Leeds, England, United Kingdom 2020 has seen new music aplenty but also that of hindsight inspired improvements. Friday Night Lights and ‘The Girl In The Picture’ can be very much counted here. The Leeds four-piece, much akin to the majority of those on the UK underground circuit, had their 2020 very
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Keep Summer Safe – London, England, United Kingdom Pop-Punk. The genre that, for love, nor money, nor exposure, stands the test of time; every time. Keep Summer Safe and Meet Me There are not about to reviewed by Brian Fantana nor be protected by an AI designed to complete its task at all costs, no
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Slackrr – Southampton, England, United Kingdom Slackrr and the Reflections single enter into a confusing time for the contemporary scene. The releases are at a steady flow as we await the return to live circuits. The music flows as we try to imagine it all so longingly in front of us. Enter Southampton‘s Slackrr. The
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Passionflower – Warrington, England, United Kingdom Passionflower is set to release ‘Picture Perfect’ this very month. The Warrington-based solo-project of one Kyle Richardson-Nickle has been a work in progress since 2017 and is testament to an important, undeniably crucial and intrinsic characteristic of the underground music scene. Inspiration both past, formative and contemporary. They say
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High Visions – Leeds, England, United Kingdom High Visions and A First Date With Imposter Syndrome enter into 2020 via INiiT Records. This is notable for two reasons. Primarily, the above is the latest in the chronicle of the contemporary melodic Punk hybridisation that is the Leeds based High Visions, but also that this third release
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Much The Same – Chicago, Illinois, USA Undisputedly, the hardest part of the interview process is ascertaining a title. It’s only fitting then that “A Happy Accident: Chris From Much The Same” became the title as a happy accident in itself. I had a whole script to choose from after the interview you are about to read
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Taking On Water – San Diego, California, USA They say that if you truly love something, that you never outgrow it. Such a mantra is one more than crucial to Taking On Water and 20 Years Too Late. The Carlsbad/San Diego band are comprised of four people who, in a testament to the inexhaustible youthful
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The Raging Nathans – Dayton, Ohio, USA The Raging Nathans and Oppositional Defiance are soon to imprint on 2020. The Dayton, Ohio band are perhaps best described as playing a pure-to-form manner of Punk-Rock indebted to the Ramones as much as they are what would be rehashed in the ’90s. In essence, depending on your
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Much The Same – Chicago, Illinois, USA “Much The Same and the Quitters Never Win Reissue” are a set of meaningful and determined words that very recently captivated the global fast-melodic Punk scene. In doing so, this collection of characters resulted in a response itself well within the realm of ecstatic from the bands OG
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