Long Birds – Chicago, Illinois, USA Earlier in November, Long Birds and I Had A Dream I Was Skateboarding made their play into the Skate Punk-a-verse. A “verse” that now varied in its penchant for Post-Hardcore, Pop-Punk and various veins of Metal, continues to venerate its genealogical ties to the…
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Shrug Dealer – New York City, New York, USA Introducing Shrug Dealer. Why now? Well, I suppose you’ll have to follow these words onward to whatever meaning they are trying to convey. You don’t have to, but you’ve come this far and you’re approaching a paragraph now; I promise I…
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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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Making Friends – Brighton, England, United Kingdom So here we are! Making Friends and BONK!, something that could easily pertain to a statement of intent as much as it could the continuation of this band’s story. However, as it’s before 9 pm (at the time of these typed-words) and there are little…
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Thousand 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…
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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…
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Maybe Later – South Bay, California, USA “Maybe Later – The Debut EP”. Another fast Punk band from California set to soon release their debut EP. Maybe Later, eh? Wrong! We are doing this now. At this stage in ’90s Skate Punk evolution, there is an abundance of such bands.…
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Uphill Struggle – Copenhagen, Denmark “Uphill Struggle – A Wise Man’s Hell” is a collection of words that denote to a release by a ’90s-inspired Skate Punk band. At a glance, the combination of band name and album title also sounds akin to some sort of motivational proverb about struggling…
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Ink Bomb – Nijmegen, The Netherlands It’s nearly 2020 at the time in which that I am writing this and ’90s Punk is still a bonafide “thing”. Just let that settle into your cognitive function and then add the following words: Ink Bomb – Fiction. With a history spanning two…
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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…
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