rolling punk rock 2024

#6 = so badass

#5 = i was right by him. at one point, he was making the sound of a toy laser gun into his pickups and looping it.

they also had one of those blow-up dancing guys like you see in front of car dealerships (but like 5 feet tall) and they'd modified it with an alien face and flipping middle fingers on both hands. i didn't even know it was there but as soon as they started playing, it filled with air and stood straight up. it was awesome.

haha I forgot about that! I was in the back like an old punk.

they also have the best songs titles of any new band, I mean "Nuke The Sun"? I Wanna Fuck The Moon"? that shit is genius level.

liking this ... not sure i'm loving it - ok, maybe the first track i love - but i am liking it:

https://grazia.bandcamp.com/album/in-poor-taste

yeah I like that one!

also digging two new tape EPs from the Earth Girl label in MS:

https://earthgirltapes.bandcamp.com/album/new-eyes
https://earthgirltapes.bandcamp.com/album/st-2

this is fun too

https://goodbyeboozydigital.bandcamp.com/album/dru-the-drifter-and-the-back-alley-hookers-tape

aw yeah, more Australian rockist goodness
https://drunkmums.bandcamp.com/album/beer-baby

uranium club album is really good

it is. probably my favourite they've done

other 2024 favourite not previously mentioned on this thread is People Problem by Nasti

may I present...THE GOBS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVGMTB-3wyQ

(video shot by a friend I went with)

Seconding the Nasti endorsement if you like things stupid and mean and a little bit abstract.

Does anyone here care about Bib? I like the new one (Biblical) but have found myself going back to Delux more. Can't figure out what's drawing me to it.

I didn't like Biblical as much as their older stuff tbh

Prison Affair, same show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhR44rUPvxs

(love how u can see The Gobs in the pit there)

new Deluxe Bias tape, thanks for the tip there

https://deluxebias.bandcamp.com/album/awful-4-songs-db-26

new JJ & the A's 7": https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/eyeballer

^^ rules, thanks!

i am loving this gobs video and need more

ask and ye shall receive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QXhVEeFW0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-10vpUn8WE

thank you! i'm also loving the "awful" tape on deluxe bias

Gosh, I always love Deluxe Bias, and that was no exception (though I feel like they missed an opportunity to call it 4 Awful Songs).

I enjoyed this new Unlawful Assembly tape by Youth in Asia with coffee this morning. Terrible name! But some good, funny vocals and great riffs and overall appealing feel.

https://unlawfulassembly.bandcamp.com/album/youth-in-asia-nuclear-waste-abomination

punk bands to come up with an original band name [IMPOSSIBLE]

fuck's sake there are 14 of them on discogs, but this is one I know https://www.discogs.com/artist/399717-Youth-In-Asia-2

let the record show that there is only one "The Gobs" on discogs ;)

I admit I am not as into this strain of punk. In some ways, a lot of the sounds that I enjoy in the punk/hc realm are overwhelmingly similar to the sounds that I enjoyed most as a teenager— grind, thrash, and Orange County hc alongside stuff like Born Against is my sort of sweet spot. Snotty punk a la the Gobs is fun live, but I never listen to it.

yah u are way more metal/grind oriented than me, I'm a sucker for the "dorky melodies buried in distortion" thing

thankfully we live in times of such bounty that there is enough great punk for everyone!

ILX punk McCarthy hearings where everyone has to state if they are an egg punk or chain punk

lol

I do not get the Uranium Club album at all, somebody give me a good track to try besides the first one

wrt distorted dorky melodies vs grind/thrash/hc I am v much "why not both?"

<3

Can’t speak to the new one but their older stuff always reminded me of Wire and occasionally of 100 Flowers/The Urinals

wrt distorted dorky melodies vs grind/thrash/hc I am v much "why not both?"

fair! I am the reverse, pretty much, although straight oldschool pre-metal HC can still enthrall me at times

I am from the generation of hardcore kids where metal was just beginning to make inroads, I especially was deeply suspicious of it and snobby about it too. I viewed DRI's "Crossover" as a personal betrayal, lol.

table iirc your era was the era where emo was considered the "enemy", yeah? the white-belt kids of the early 2000s?

I guess mine would've been the Epifat type of NOFX-clone skate punk, I basically only listened to 70s-mid-80s punk/hc in the late 90s because of that stuff. never went to any punk gigs either, I thought all "modern" punk was rubbish. thanks to the internet and file-sharing I now know there was good stuff happening all through that era I just missed it all

Sleeve, not sure this will do it for you, but this is one of the more straightforward rockers on the album.

https://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/track/abandoned-by-the-narrator

Admittedly the Uranium Club thing is pretty specific, easy to see it not working for lots of folks.

Uranium Club played here (Sydney) last night… I went along mainly to see RMFC who are always great… hadn’t really gelled with the Uranium Club I had heard prior but they were super fun - well-judged mix of smart and dumb, clever song structures (Wire mention above was OTM) - got the crowd going, a terrific night

I fuckin love RMFC, one of the best albums from last year.

speaking of RMFC:

https://totalpunkrecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/total-punk-order-of-the-dirty-plates-7-singles-club

"The bands included are: RMFC, CLASS, RETAIL SIMPS, TEE VEE REPAIRMANN, ITCHY & THE NITS, SPIRAL DUB, ALIEN NOSEJOB, and PUPPET WIPES."

I am from the generation of hardcore kids where metal was just beginning to make inroads, I especially was deeply suspicious of it and snobby about it too. I viewed DRI's "Crossover" as a personal betrayal, lol.

table iirc your era was the era where emo was considered the "enemy", yeah? the white-belt kids of the early 2000s?

so in other words: i have no idea what the white belt kids were/are, and i loathed emo… tho still have affection for the very early Orchid records and the first Boysetsfire record

somewhere in a closet in my parents’ house is a box with all of my punk CDs, which i might try to scrounge up one of these days.

last year i finally took back the box of nearly every Punk Planet ever published, from the 3rd issue to the final one

wow @ RMFC

they are so good, I love how the electric 12-string sounds in that mix

table that's super interesting, those are years I wasn't always paying attention to punk, mine is kinda like:

1982: first Sex Pistols album, first Clash concert (their last US tour)
1983: heavily into Joy Division, Siouxsie, Gang Of Four, postpunk in general
early '84: shift to Dead Kennedys/Black Flag, first actual HC show (JFA, Sun City Girls, Mighty Sphincter, local HC band)
late 84: DRI, Suicidal, Minor Threat, Minutemen, all of it
late '85: starting listening to TG, PTV, Coil, etc
86: Sonic Youth rules my world
87-96 or so: noise/experimental snob
97-2001: reminded that there are other good genres out there, diversification
2001-2007: we booked punk/HC shows at our house, Tragedy, Submission Hold, From Ashes Rise, all the hits. Faggot! Clan Of The Bleeding Eye! Realicide! fun times.
2008-2023: not much really, lotta record collector rock
end of 2023: friend plays me the Liquids album, I realize there is a ton of great stuff out there again, I start buying tapes by the dozens

I should also note that I always listened to Chumbawamba, Crass, Fugazi, and The Ex throughout this entire timeline

interesting to see your travels through it, too— interestingly it was in 99 that I bought Goo at a flea market and became obsessed with SY, and then that sort of helped me into other punk-adjacent but not punk music. i was also really into G!YBE and Windy & Carl in the early 2000s

Do we all go through a teen year or two where it feels wrong to listen to things not-punk? And is that the source of later exhortations that Mingus/Dylan/whatever *are* punk?

yes and yes imho