rolling punk rock 2024

*every other month or so to Deluxe Bias, i meant

both of those Deluxe Bias tapes are already sold out! crazy how tapes have basically replaced 45s in this new scene for immediacy/urgency/relevancy

i know :'(

not bothersome at all, mike! welcome! post away!

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yeah, the more the merrier, thanks for the recs...

Yeah, Cryin' Hand has Brendan in it, who basically is Hologram by himself on record I believe. Luke, who does Divorce Horse with Brendan also, is in it too. They get up to a crazy amount of stuff so hard to keep up, but I generally like all of it! Hologram is very cool stuff.

Brendan plays live now with that band Black Button I posted about last year, and has a new band called Cicada too.

That Black Button record got put out on vinyl recently if anyone is interested. Definitely a record I listened to quite a bit last year, really love it. "Great Closing Sleep" is a track I get stuck in my head all the time: https://blackbuttonva.bandcamp.com/album/black-button-rejoice-undesirable-033

following

https://dreamhomemusic.bandcamp.com

also, Richmond represent!

Hah yeah Richmond is a pretty good spot for this kinda thing. Brendan was a DC guy but moved there and a lot of cross-playing between those two places seems to be happening. Again, hard to keep up.

Richmond is cool, I was there for 18 hours last year and it was 18 of the best hours of 2023 for me.

Public Acid also from Richmond

going to see the Chisel on Sunday. supporting is a local hardcore band I like a lot called Plastics, they only have a 7" out https://crewcuts.bandcamp.com/track/nerve-pusher

new Rude Television EP
https://rudetelevision.bandcamp.com/album/collection

and only out now but old/archival is the very cool Terminal Intensity tape/DL from Gulcher, this was Billy Nightshade's band in 1977-78 right before he joined The Gizmos, as they mutated from proto-punk to punk (or maybe he was the push in that direction), I always thought he was the coolest Gizmo and I treasure seeing their 1988 reunion in person.
https://thegizmos.bandcamp.com/album/tentatively-terminal-1977-1978

Soon Daryl and I realized it was easier to write our own songs than figure out ones by the Stones or Kinks. We found the process of writing songs in our own haphazard way! Gradually the songs got better and we decided it was time to put a band together!

I made a list of my favourite punk releases of 2023 for people who like lists of things with no information at all about them:

Anti-Machine - Too Many Eyes 7"
Bog People - S/T
Consensus Madness - S/T 7"
Delco MF's - 100% Complete And Total Motherfuckers
Destruct - Cries The Mocking Mother Nature
Eunix - Demo 2023 CS
Fairytale - Shooting Star
Ignorance - S/T 7"
JJ & The A's - S/T 7"
Lafff Box - S/T
Lethal - Lethal's Hardcore Hit Parade 7"
Lexicon - Poison Head 7"
Massacred - Post-Mortem 7"
P.S.Y.W.A.R. - Defcon 7"
Paranoid - S.C.U.M. 12"
Personal Damage - Atrophy & Entropy
Physique - Overcome By Pain 7"
Planet On A Chain - Boxed In
Private Function - 370HSSV 077EH
Scarecrow - Crisis 7"
Shrinkwrap Killers - Feed The Clones Pt. 1
Sial - Sangkar 7"
Snooper - Super Snooper
Stingray - Fortress Britain
Thatcher's Snatch - White Collar Man 7"
Warcycle - Manifesting Barbarity 7"
Wet Specimens - Over Pale Bodies
Young Francis Hi Fi - The Young Generation

I have about 40 (lol) honourable mentions if anyone wants those too

I love Consensus Madness! recent discovery, they have a demo tape that rips as well

have punk 7"s gotten expensive like non-punk 7"s? i don't even look at new 7"s most of the time because I feel like they're $10, and that seems like too much to me. but i'm old.

maybe the punk bands/labels have held the line?

they are 7-8 bucks usually it seems?

I am doing almost exclusively tapes and downloads for 2024 punk stuff but I have already made a bunch of exceptions for 7"s (Skull Cult, Collate, Smirk, Billiam, etc)

depends on the label but prices have gone up a bit here yeah, £7-8 for a 7". but then inflation has been high so I don't think that's totally unreasonable

the bigger distros I follow have got a bit silly for LPs though, £25-35 is pretty common now and that does seem a bit much when other labels can do it for £14-18

new Buio Omega rips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxs1J96WqNQ

new Public Acid LP just dropped

https://beachimpedimentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deadly-struggle

I was coming to post about that Public Acid, too. I liked it! It definitely feels more metal than Condemnation, but it's cool how they manage to skirt catchiness without totally capitulating to standard songs or hooks. That Beat Session was great, I thought (https://publicacidshout.bandcamp.com/album/beat-session-vol-10).

Does anyone like Total Sham? I liked their last album, and the one that came out Friday sounded good on first couple of listens, too. I tend to like self-consciously stupid, negative stuff, and I appreciate how they capture classic hardcore with just the slightest touch of '70s rock but don't sound throwback per se. (https://utgrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lp-2)

In a not dissimilar vein, I also went back to that 2023 album from The Hell a couple of times last week. I think it's really good. There's something just slightly poppy/classic-rock about them that really leavens the sound for me. (https://notfortheweakrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-hell).

But my most-listened to thingy in this awful, excoriating, cathartic realm over the past few weeks has definitely been this Yambag EP from 2022. It almost reminds me a little of Naked City or Napalm Death or something like that. I don't find them pretentious at all, but they definitely like to shift tempo and feel a lot in pretty small spaces, and it's obvious that they can play straight when they want to. I love this band. (https://yambag.bandcamp.com/album/strength-in-nightmares)

oh I liked that Yambag EP a lot, had forgotten about that

am going to 2 days of the Damage Is Done weekender in London this week.

Thursday is headlined by Fairytale, their album was one of my favourite releases of 2023. Saturday is headlined by Japanese crust legends Framtid which I'm really looking forward to. Also playing: Take It In Blood, Bulls Shit, Subdued, Ikhras, Violent Offence, Quarantine, The Flex, T.S. Warspite, The Annihilated, Stingray, Echo Chamber, Mazandaran, Desorden, Hellscape and Catastrophe. have seen several of those before but should be good.

I love that I have never heard of any of those. so many punk bands out there!

it's a little more hardcore-oriented that weekend. I think you might like Subdued, they are kind of dark heavy anarcho-punk. most of the other bands are straight up hardcore although I would recommend the Flex who one of my favourite UKHC bands

There's a new Yambag record that's supposed to come out soon too they put up a new track/video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppbu79rtjwA

Framtid!~ Sick.

Love that Total Sham sound, thanks Mike Powell!

Re: the Public Acid, I'm a little dubious about calling a thrashy hardcore record more "metal" just because there are a few blazing guitar solos, but point taken. I think it's as good as Condemnation. They really rip live, highly recommend it.

https://horsewhipfl.bandcamp.com/album/consume-and-burn

my friend's band put out a record back in nov. hardcore isn't my zone but i think they're pretty heavy and their live shows can be crazy. they're about to tour the east coast and this thread seems like the best place to give ilxors a heads up on that

https://horsewhipfl.bandcamp.com/album/consume-and-burn🕸

my friend's band put out a record back in nov. hardcore isn't my zone but i think they're pretty heavy and their live shows can be crazy. they're about to tour the east coast and this thread seems like the best place to give ilxors a heads up on that

six days until the big Portland show!! alpine static I would love to say hi, I'll be in an Indian (Delhi) style dress, boots, and artsy battle vest that has a This Heat design on the back (the cover of Health And Efficiency)

The Coffin Pricks (Chris Thomson, Ryan Weinstein, Jeff Rice) LP is finally out, ten yrs too late but who cares, it sounds even better then I remember

https://coffinpricks.bandcamp.com/album/semi-perfect-crimes

wow what was the delay? i still have a button on my dresser from seeing them back in the day (i guess around 2011)

They broke up and moved on to other stuff, but I know Ryan's been tinkering with the recordings for a minute

new pissed jeans is sounding great

loving this December release

https://idiotaperecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-brief-history-of-planets-space-and-shit

not new punk, but amphetamine reptile is reissuing, for the first time ever, the legendary debut tape from Minneapolis hardcore band Iron Fist. kinda stoked about it.

https://www.shoxop.com/products/iron-fist-crucify-me-digipak-cd

new pissed jeans is sounding great

― gman59, Friday, 1 March 2024 18:29 bookmarkflaglink

thank you for reminding me they have a new one out

was at the hardcore weekender last night, I mostly went to see Fairytale, half the supports were the karate in the pit type of thing which I'm not into, although I liked Bulls Shitt (crap name though) because they were pretty old school. tbh didn't think Fairytale were that good live but I think partly because they are pretty noisy and the mix was weird and seemed to turn into mush a lot which might not've been their fault.

I skipped today but tomorrow is the all-dayer with Framtid headlining so am looking forward to that. looks like most of the karate bands are playing earlier in the day at least

lol @ "karate bands", are people really pulling moves like that in pits these days?

the last time I was in a real pit was Against Me! in uhhhh 2016?? I lost a prized button on my battle vest, lol - since replaced but with a less-cool design

lol @ "karate bands", are people really pulling moves like that in pits these days?

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 2 March 2024 02:14 bookmarkflaglink

unfortunately yes, but it's mostly a kind of separate scene to the stuff I usually go to. this event is pretty big tent hardcore though so there's some meathead crowd killing type bands, old school hardcore punk, crust, anarcho etc. something for everybody

tbh I think the last time I spent a significant amount of time in the pit was the Circle Jerks in 2022. am old

i would never get in a pit ever again, the last two shows where I did were quite enough for me — both were Limp Wrist shows and the allure of being in a pit with a hundred other sweaty naked punk faggots is a bit too enticing to me

so i guess absent another Limp Wrist reunion, never again

lol <3

unfortunately yes, but it's mostly a kind of separate scene to the stuff I usually go to.

Dillinger Escape Plan have a lot to answer for, I guess

accidentally found this band from the very esoteric and strange county that abuts part of my neighborhood, Delco MF’s absolutely rip, good stuff

https://delco-mfs.bandcamp.com/album/the-march-of-the-mfs

excellent

I saw them in September

any good live?

DC’s Ekko Astral making some best of lists

digging this new Dru The Drifter

https://druthedrifter.bandcamp.com/album/the-moon-walker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb5qPAkb98U

my soundcloud mix of 2024 faves

https://soundcloud.com/sleeve-the-dj/2024-best-of

1 New Coke - Politician 02 Cherry Cheeks - You Don't.flac 03 Todd Briefly - Suffocate.flac 04 Busted Head Racket - Poor No More.flac 05 Tombeau - Asbestos 06 Rude Television - I Want to Believe 07 Billiam - ASD 08 the gobs - my baby is a UFO 09 Grazia - Speed Freak 10 AIRSOFT - CAMRY 11 DRUNK MUMS - Apocalypse 12 JJ And The A's - The Runner 13 GEE TEE - Workin 4 The FBI 14 Busted Head Racket - Mind Your Own Business (Delta 5) 15 Busted Head Racket - Doo Wop 16 Goblin Daycare - Doing My Part 17 Snooper - I Think I’m Falling In Luv Again (DEVO) 18 Itchy & The Nits - Nudie Beach 19 JUDY AND THE JERKS - WORTH A SHOT 20 NTSC PAL - J.D.R. 21 the gobs - RNRRFIL 22 Snooper - Online 23 Ismatic Guru - Heroes 24 Abi Ooze - Of Power 25 GURK - ME AND MY FRIEND 26 media puzzle - Garage Sale 27 media puzzle - Strategic Living.flac 28 Billiam - Hit The Brakes 29 HÄGÖL - DIRT 30 HÄGÖL - DEATH MERGE 31 SATANIC TOGAS - ILLUSIONS 32 Lothario - G.E.N.E. 33 Prison Affair - Celebrate Your Death 34 Alien Nosejob - Shrapnel Blast 35 Bughunt - Making Friends 36 Snooper - RELAY 37 The Scaners - Black Hole 38 Citric Dummies - I Can't Stand The Weekend 39 Split System - Climbing (Live in Stockholm) 40 The Gobs - My Brain is Slipping Thru My Skull 41 POWER PANTS - Unscanable 42 1-800 Mikey - Welcome Back 43 Rude Television - Digital Frustration 44 Dru The Drifter - My Ears Are Ringing

thanks sleeve!

new year, new thread: rolling punk rock 2025

finally got round to new Snooper from this year, enjoyed their Devo 'Satisfaction' style of Come Together... also best Egg thing this year (they were using bandcamp tag Eggy Metal) =
https://steroidband.bandcamp.com/album/chainmail-commandos