Forgotten Names – London, England, United Kingdom “Forgotten Names and Their Debut Single” is a headline itself the product of yet another arduous lockdown project. I shouldn’t need to extrapolate on that for more than a few token words. That said, as many of you in bands or in the know will completely get, the
Full NutritionLucky Malice – Halden, Norway Lucky Malice and Magnetic enter a year where the only positive consistency has been the ironic relentlessness of underground music releases. Melodic Punk and particularly that from continental Europe, have been at the forefront of this remarkably expedient and exponential availability. This is where we find the fourth release from Halden,
Full NutritionThe Dead Krazukies – Hossegor, France The Dead Krazukies and Icarus are another to join the ironic indomitability of 2020s Punk releases. It is true that this sweetens this sour pot of a year but is more notable after the band’s four-year studio silence. Well, other than a cover of Bad Religion’s ‘Sinister Rouge’, which you
Full NutritionPoor Me – Denver, Colorado, USA Is it any surprise that the video premiere of Poor Me and ‘Classwar’ are returning and surfacing now? No, I suppose it isn’t. The Denver, Colorado band have never been one to shy away from their beliefs and a critique of all things inward, outward and everywhere. The planet
Full NutritionDrag Me Down – Swindon, England, United Kingdom Drag Me Down and New Today Better Tomorrow enter 2020 straddling some of the many branches of the apparently indomitable legacy that is the Punk music tree. The former simplistic, but now variety imbued and subsisting bastion of creativity is at an impressive altitude beset with more
Full NutritionUtopia Now – Berlin, Germany After many moons away, in these new dark ages of no substance and woe, Utopia Now return with Jefferson’s Baby in a quest to decipher it all and ultimately find their true north. The Berlin melodic Punk project has seen something of a reemergence these past two years. In preparation
Full NutritionThousand Oaks – Rome, Italy Thousand Oaks and Hell Is Empty. The former is a band of blistering technical Punk-Rock and the latter; a statement that is no longer as outlandish as it once blissfully and idly was. Mud Cake Records are on board and pushing the mainline vinyl run of the latest from the harmonised,
Full NutritionWinning Streak – Texas, USA After a busy year, an increase in personnel and a rebirth of their debut, Winning Streak and We Need A Plan approach their triumph. The band are set to release their long-awaited follow up this coming November, and now, bolstered with both Chris McGrath of Much The Same and Davey Knight of
Full Nutritionwaterweed – Osaka, Japan Although the album itself was a 2019 entry into the Punk-a-sphere, waterweed and the Diffuse vinyl issue are words worth heeding, noting and if you’re so inclined, celebrating. The Osaka band, who have been slogging it out since 2003 and in 2018, 2019 and to a point, 2020 respectively, have populated
Full NutritionLaunch Control – Reading, England, United Kingdom It’s been three long years of political strife since their last commentary and now Launch Control return with the Attention Economy. The Reading band’s evocative, poignant and societally resultant emotional-drudgery-drenched socio-political musings are now in their fourth phase. Although today concerns phase four, I shall but briefly implore you
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