Launch 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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Smash Mouse Records – Newport, Wales, United Kingdom Smash Mouse Records and A Tribute To Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2. If I were to describe, recap or educate on what this forthcoming compilation is attempting, the only real result would be an abject fall into banality-ridden inertia. It is fair to assume that
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The Shorts – Ballarat, Victoria, Australia The Shorts and the Tango EP enter 2020 their way and by that, I mean clad in shorts and patterned flat caps surrounded by an amalgamative mix of Skate Punk, Garage Rock and an occasional Ska tidbit. Such a sonic foray into this very year was made possible by
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Zombies No – Paris, France Zombies No are a band from everywhere. Well, Venezuela, France and Italy with a home in the city of Paris. Zombies No entered 2020 with ALL YOU CAN HATE. An EP acting as the latest of the band’s forays into the fast Punk scene with their brand of Skate Punk,
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Stay Out – Oakland, California, USA Green Day, Operation Ivy, Rancid, Descendents, Lagwagon, NOFX and countless more. Such household names are the very reason for Stay Out and Always Late coming into play in late 2019. Such seminal names, resulted in the rejuvenation of US and then global Punk music, and ultimately got it where it
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Part Time Killer – Lahti, Finland If there’s one thing you can depend on in these uncertain times, its European and by extension, Scandanavian Punk-Rock. Part Time Killer and The Fight are relevant to this. The Finnish four-piece have returned after nine-years of studio-silence to further propagate their and indeed our love of the fast,
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The Cryptics – Dover, New Hampshire, USA With the planet going the way it is, Punk-Rock music, though never leaving per se, has found new relevance. Enter The Cryptics and Continuous New Behavior. Pine Hill Records have decided to usher in the return of The Cryptics after the four-year gap since Make Me Digital which you can
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The Rebel Assholes – Belfort, France In 2019 the words, The Rebel Assholes – (Headed For) Dysphoria made their entry into a world where heart-on-sleeve Gruff Punk was becoming all the more prevalent in response to day-to-day gloom. Are we in fact headed for dysphoria? This four-piece seem to think so. Hailing from Belfort in France,
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Incomplete – Perth, Western Australia, Australia After living in the country briefly, I developed an interest in Aussie Skate Punk. So when Incomplete – Incomplete landed in my inbox, I knew I would eventually get round to spewing some text about it. Hailing from Perth, in November the four-piece released their debut full-length rather than that
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The Phosphorus Bombs – Sydney, New South Wales, Australia The Phosphorus Bombs and …Against You!. A release that boldly sets out to combine the seminal early work of the likes of Bad Religion and Sick Of It All. What makes this statement even better, substantiates it and also thickens the plot is the manner in
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