Drag 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
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Winning Streak – Texas, USA Winning Streak and their ‘Stop Screaming’ single marks another prominent waypoint in the microcosm that is the band’s 2020. However, before that, some context is required. 2018 saw a debut album that witnessed the Texas-founded band soar over melodic Punk-Rock and technical Skate Punk that saw more harmonies that you
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A Few Good Losers – Atlanta, Georgia, USA A Few Good Losers and Hi-Speed Skate. The mind boggles. What in the ’90s of Skate Punk could this possibly denote to? While such a ponderous subject is deconstructed, a band by the name of A Few Good Losers from the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia beckon your attention.
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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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Dungeon Days – Copenhagen, Denmark Dungeon Days and the ‘Prayaway’ single fit into the legacy of the ’90s Punk explosion. The band are also symbiotically to this, counted amongst the notably fast and melodic European Punk-Rock scene. Said scene very prominently traces much of its choice cuts to Scandanavia and it goes without saying that
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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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The Liverpool Punk-Rock All-Dayer – Studio 2, Liverpool, United Kingdom The Liverpool Punk-Rock All-Dayer 3, the cat is out of the bag… more so that it was prior to this lovely image and accompanying sentence. Next year on May 16th 2020, on the notorious and world-renowned Lagwagon day, LPRAD will be returning to Studio 2 Parr Street
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Tadpoles – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Punk is universal and 90’s variant is very much an omnipresent force in the contemporary music scene and with that, the Kuala Lumpa four-piece know as Tadpoles warrant your attention ahead of a heavily booked out 2019 where they plan to top the excellent EP that is Who Am I?. Who Am
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Fastfade – London, England, United Kingdom. Nostalgic, youthfully exuberant, fast – these are all terms you can use to describe the London three-piece and Umlaut Records staples Fastfade. They are fast, they play, the fade and they play again over and over blasting melodic Punk music that sounds akin to what I would imagine a
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Shackleford – Nuneaton, England, United Kingdom. Shackleford are a band not messing around. They play Pop-Punk in the fashion of the old-school before all else. That’s not to say that the contemporary scene isn’t producing stellar music but Shackleford are now two EPs in and have made their bed, with mid-to-fast tempo sheets and ’90s-styled
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