Bar Tape – Dublin, Leinster, Ireland Today, I am excited to be involved with the video premiere of Bar Tape and ‘Take Heed x St. Peter’s College Drop-Out’ ahead of the Dublin four-piece unleashing their latest salvo of organic, writhing and raucously gritty melodic Punk. If you’ve not crossed paths…
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Debt Neglector – Orlando, Florida, USA Debt Neglector and Dirty Water are set to appear this coming November. The Florida-born political Punk-Rock band are known for cutting the shit and for deposing the bullshit and smiling in the face of continual verbal diarrhoea. In a succinct nutty nutshell that has been NOWHERE…
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afewyearslater/Trophy Jump – Budapest/Zagreb, Hungary/Croatia If there is one thing we can hold on to in these times, its music. This is where afewyearslater/Trophy Jump and their Split EP comes into play. The release is one part Hungary and one part Croatia and was unveiled to the sound waves at…
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Raincheck – Lyon, France In this here 2020, Raincheck have returned with the The ‘Cleaned Out’ single. Based in Lyon, the French five-piece have had somewhat of a radio and studio silence since their 2016 release, True Love. The band’s rough-cut, jagged approach to riff-heavy late ’90s Skate Punk was cut…
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FLAGPOLERS/Bar Tape – Dublin/Vancouver, Ireland/Canada Music is ubiquitous. Is that an excuse unto why I missed the FLAGPOLERS/Bar Tape and their split EP the first time around? Perhaps, but it’s still a true-enough statement nonetheless. Bandcamp is a wonderful place of discovery and split releases a staple in the Punk…
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Stage Banter – Beverwijk, The Netherlands Tightrope walking is a precarious activity indeed! Enter Stage Banter – Tightrope Walking, a band and a release endeavouring to be the very fuel you need to overcome the terror of it all. The band take on this monumental task via fast, melodic, social-political…
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Kill The Rooster – Copenhagen, Denmark Kill The Rooster And Then What Happened Was… is an EP in-line with a trend that permeates much of the Disconnect Disconnect Records catalogue. The London label has a knack, a habit and a skill at collecting releases via bands getting back at it. This…
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Maybe Not – Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Ah European Skate Punk, a scene that continues to populate the greater global scene with some of the best new bands atop a legacy of contributions down-right impossible to ignore. Maybe Not hail from Amsterdam and are very much another to add to the…
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Debt Neglector – Orlando, Florida, USA I feel I must place a disclaimer before this review. Despite this Floridian band hailing specifically from Orlando, coming across up-beat and as if they’re having fun, their fast, melodic yet gritty Punk-Rock packs a serious lyrical punch, crucial in these what-ever-the-hell-is-going-on times we…
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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…
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