One Million Motors – Newcastle, England, United Kingdom Sonic and personnel alternation. That’s the game I’m told. One Million Motors and ‘You’re Not Viable (You Just Don’t Know It Yet)’ are very much part of these shifting sands of sound. Their locale is Newcastle but their compositional journey is a…
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Cuffs – Bristol, England, United Kingdom It’s a strange time for live music. Cuffs and their Factory Sessions exist within such oddity. “Sit-down” gigs and shows are approaching “commonplace” status in some areas across the country and social media is lovingly awash with gig posters once more. Although the live show experience…
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Seized Up – Santa Cruz, California, USA Seized Up and Marching Down The Spiral enter into a time where the “side-project” is now so much more. The DIY and underground Punk scene may well be rife with new talent, with some refining and refreshing the known and others breaking new ground…
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Dragged In – Toronto, Ontario, Canada Though originally released in 2020 and not one for longwinded titles, Dragged In and LP1 have made their way into 2021 via Cursed Blessings Records. The Toronto, Ontario Hardcore Punks have been placing their own seal on the history of the ‘core since 2015…
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Pink Suits – Margate, Kent, United Kingdom Introducing Pink Suits to the punk-a-verse is something that’s either going to result in me writing a chronicle or at the very least half of one. I will endeavour to keep it short but still write enough to entice and push your little…
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Haest – Hastings, England, United Kingdom Earlier this year, Haest and Distrusted Uniforms appeared. The former being attributed but not limited to its status as a lumbering leviathan of loquacious Punk ethics. One that presents as a heavy-set, brooding mass of Doom aesthetic, Noise Rock and Post-Hardcore. It is safe to say…
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SKIV – London, England, United Kingdom It has been some time in the waiting room but via fledgling label INiiT Records, SKIV and their Chick Chicken EP are here to alleviate your anticipation. SKIV’s four-piece formula of brash but playful and approach Punk is a broad one. The band capture…
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Pulley – Simi Valley, California, USA Though acoustic tracks aren’t always synonymous with melodic Punk-Rock, here we are for Different Strings: Scott From Pulley. In but a few short days, the seminal melodic Punks from California are to be shifting sonic-mass on a system of audible strings in an alternate…
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Oh The Humanity! – Massachusetts, USA After seven years since a full-length and three since their last release, Oh The Humanity! and their Self-Titled appear now in this 2021. The Massachusetts five-piece cascade through the legacy of approachable melodic and Pop-Punk. They simultaneously exude cathartic and ripping Melodic Hardcore as…
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Block Parent – Cambridge, Ontario, Canada Block Parent and Sick Year, Bro! enter after the Cambridge, Ontario former exclaimed ‘let’s make this year our fucking year’ at the end of their 2020 split with comrades Frank Dux. Now, you can’t fault their enthusiasm. Block Parent are exuberant, fast and near…
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