rolling punk/non-indie underground 2015

Nirvana isn't the perfect touchstone though. Just melodically in a few places you can really hear the influence. No stomping on the DS-1 for the choruses here. I was also put in a mind for Pink Flag.

Any other Tenement fans around here? I speak of course of the Appleton, WI pop-punk trio who often mix kinda Superchunk/Marked Men style tunes with tricky rhythms and curveball riffing and portentous lyrics and song structure experiments.

They're on tour with Priests right now and are about to release a rarities compilation from their first ten years. Very excited to see them here in NC this Monday. They're one of the best live rock bands in the world IMO. Masters of the 20-minute banter-free ultra-tight guitar-heroics-strewn punk set.

As good an intro to Tenement as any:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1NuQFZloh8

never heard of 'em. dig "your life or mine", not so much the one random track from the blind wink tape i found on youtube, so now i'm listening to napalm dream. and yeah superchunk loom large - early archers too, branch manager, bunch of mid 90s bands. would totally have bought a tape off these guys if they'd played chapel hill in '94.

Well if you still live in the area--or for anyone who does--they're playing the Pinhook in Durham on Monday. Highly recommended.

Jrn did they ever come up to mpls?

Not on this tour, I don't think. But many times over the years for sure.

New Kitchen's Floor is gr8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC3l8uFE8JQ

noise rock with that EA drum sound, pretty badass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeMAWgNskv0

https://newfries.bandcamp.com/

this band is gr8, they played the space i book shows at last week. basically what i always wanted out of "no wave." killer rhythm section really brings it together

KEN Mode is p brutal, good stuff

I am p sure I just saw Tenement and Priests play w/ Screaming Females a few months ago?

I am RLY into what Philly noise-punx Pinkwash are doing rn. They have a new 7" that just came out that is super great and the are like unbelievably thrashy/energetic live. This is prob their best song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHh5FWxxSy4

https://pinkwash.bandcamp.com/album/cancer-money-7

this thread has been a bit devoid of ACTUAL PUNK ROCK (apologies to everybody) but I just wanna say that Hagar The Womb are the best band in the history of bands and if they are playing near you fucking go for fuck's sake.

i have some Actual Punk ive been meaning to post. my drummer put a bunch of stuff on my ipod for tour and i made a lil playlist of my favourite stuff before taking it all off. can't rember it all but off the dome freak vibe, mystic inane were 2 huge discoveries

I got around to making a Spotify Listening list for this thread:
Rolling Punk 2015 Spotify Playlist

this 'sad sack' track by the snooty garbagemen is great. can't quite place who the vocalist is reminding me of. Nervous Eaters dude maybe??
https://snootygarbagemen.bandcamp.com/

Downtown Boys cover of "Dancing in the Dark" is actually kind of fun

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/this-d-c-hardcore-compilation-could-be-the-new-flex-your-head/

Who knows

https://thetrendees.bandcamp.com/track/power-waves

Went to gig for Maximum Rocknroll day. I fuckin love the Repossessed. Not that the rest of the gig was too shabby.

Been reading folks raving about Downtown Boys, someone calling them the best punk band out there today (and deciding on 1 group for any genre is kinda dumb but anyway). I guess I don't listen to enough of this stuff anymore to say. I like their offshoot dancier group

yet to actually hear these guys but I suspect they're going to attract praise like that by people who listen to little or no other punk music, same as eg Fucked Up or Iceage

nb I love or have loved both those bands so I don't mean that as a slight

they have a song called 100% Inheritance Tax so they've got my attention

I don't know about best punk band going, but I saw Downtown Boys a few months ago with no knowledge of any hype and I thought they were phenomenal. They're one of those bands that clicks into this upper echelon of energy, like they've got an extra gear that other bands don't, and you're watching them not even sure of what exactly they're doing to make it happen. Screaming Females played next, and they seemed kinda subdued in comparison.

Any band with an album called Full Communism get my vote.

Downtown Boys are rad. Can kinda tell that they're phenomenal live too. Hope they make the UK soon.

the new tenement is really good.

new royal headache - https://soundcloud.com/krazypunx/royal-headache-high-1/s-357IJ

not sure where's the best place for this, but the new Thee Tsunamis record is excellent
https://theetsunamis.bandcamp.com/

Oops, I accidentally posted about the new Royal Headache in the 2014 thread. So I'll repost this here, a live video from 2013 with performances of "High" and a few more songs from the new album (links to individual songs in the comments):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMjP-3Xh6DM

Hadn't heard about the new Tenement. I googled it and found this nice review in the NYT. Excited to hear it!

new Flesh World album on Iron Lung is sounding really good, might even be better than their first 12" which was great https://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/album/the-wild-animals-in-my-life-lp-lungs-064

one of those you can prob flip a coin as to whether it's 'punk' or 'indie', assuming you even care. ex-Brilliant Colors and Limpwrist folks

best band in the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a52LNrnvSA

NY Times review compares Tenement's double album ambition to Husker Du and Minutemen. I like Tenement's pop-punk and their piano instrumental interludes, but set in my ways me is not ready to put this alongside Zen Arade or Double Nickels.

Arcade

The first actual song on the Tenement album sounds exactly like Everclear.

this rips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3uNwu-X6dQ

Tonight in old men rocking the fuck out it's Radio Birdman. Wow they were amazing. I had a ticket for the last time they were supposed to play London at the Underworld but they were turned away by immigration.

Yeah seriously a great band! I play them in the store sometimes and am always disappointed that no one gives a shit; it's like the greatest rock band most people have never heard but all they want is Tull and Zeppelin and the Beatles. Still.

i had "aloha steve and danno" on some promo cd from when the sub pop comp came out circa 2001 and played the shit out of it (and later the whole compilation), amazing band. no US dates on this tour sadly

This is a quick, mid-year reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a handful of album selections from each listed) are being posted as updated to the thread-specific Spotify playlist. I just did a top-to-bottom sweep prior to posting this message and have updated as of today with everything that's been added on Spotify since it was first mentioned.

Somehow I lost track of this thread but we're updated now: 20 tracks, 1 hour.

ILX's Rolling Punk 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

Cool idea, thanks a lot forks.

http://www.rocknrollparasite.com/destroy-all-art-lp/

^^^ cool comp of 1990s punk, great and noisy and DIY-weird. Already OOP (to be repressed) and absolutely worth picking up if you see it.

No one ever posts on the Protomartyr thread so I'm putting this here too:

https://soundcloud.com/hardlyartrecords/why-does-it-shake/

whoops i think i just posted this in last years' thread

https://ursulamtl.bandcamp.com/releases

That Protomartyr song is really great. Somehow simultaneously more mellow but more intense

I made a standalone Royal Headache thread. Why not? They're a big deal.

Hmm, I guess I don't know how to link to other threads on here. Anyway, it's not hard to find.

thots on white reaper?

I like them a lot. More pop-punk than my usual tastes but the rinky-dink keys and well-written songs push it over the edge.

A thread for Australian garage-pop-punk-soul geniuses ROYAL HEADACHE, the best rock band of this decade, occasioned by their forthcoming 2015 album HIGH

Another try at a Royal Headache link

Going to rep for a couple of friends' things that people on this thread might be interested in:

1. Scrap Brain - their demo tape is properly great.

2. Decolonise Fest - festival for punx of colour, by punx of colour. They have a couple of fundraising gigs coming up and the actual festival will happen next year.

I've been meaning to check out the Scrap Brain demo! I sort of know one of them from going to gigs.

Here is some stuff what I have liked this year:

Pheromoans - I'm on nights
Glitter - Joy of a toy 7"
Sheer Mag - III 7"
Strutter - s/t 7"
VA - La France a Peur! Inedits punk francais 1976-1980!
Chaos UK - Shit man fucker 7"
Gaucho - Desplazados 7"
Lock - The cycle 7"
Blazing Eye - lonely corpse 7"
Framtid - The horrific visions 7"
Lumpy & the Dumpers - Huff my sack
Primetime - Going places 7"
Bad Breeding - s/t
G.L.O.S.S. - Trans day of revenge 7"
Heavy Metal - Anti-music anti-sense anti-you
In School - Cement fucker 7"
Anxiety - s/t
Arms Race - New wave of british hardcore
Paranoid - Punkdemonium hell EP

New or out-soon stuff I like:

Fake Limbs - Matrimony
The Blind Shake - Celebrate Your Worth
The Sueves - Change Your Life

lol @ Fake Limbs' last.fm bio:

Dogfuckers.
Handsome dogfuckers, but dogfuckers nonetheless.

I've been meaning to check out the Scrap Brain demo! I sort of know one of them from going to gigs.

Ha, which one? The singer is a good friend of mine, but I don't know any of the others.

I don't know what he plays in that band, but on their bandcamp pic he's the guy at the back.

Fake Limbs have been on these threads before, they're very Jesus Lizard-y skronk punk. Blind Shake have been around a long time and are garage punk with touches of surf and Devo-y nerd twitchiness. Sueves sound a lot like the Makers, a little like the Peechees - the singer has that classic whiny brat voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDTJApVE2X0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UivCYFa6Ntg

Band name is hard to search for on ILX but I'm loving Pill a lot. One EP and one album in August - they're noisy and funny and sound amazing turned up to 10 in the car, plus there's a sax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91nuOZVSbbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsksYXw0g24

More post-punk than punk but this Subnormal Girls compilation that came out this year is fucking fantastic, one of the best comps of this kind I've ever heard.

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Subnormal-Girls-DIYPost-Punk-1979-83-Vol-1/release/8496822

Oh wow, it's got Boys Boys on it!

I was only familiar with the Liggers (from Messthetics - same track included here) and the Petticoats and Morbid Opera (from Killed By Death - different songs) before but I don't think there's a bad song on this comp.

I only made this connection quite recently because I don't usually read sites like the Quietus unless someone links to something from here, and didn't know the ilxor who writes this column's real name (I assume he's too modest to link it here himself? so I won't mention who it is just in case... :)) but this series of articles is highly recommended for punk/non-indie underground fans:

http://thequietus.com/features/gardner-s-straight-hedge

Like, I'm going through some of the columns from this year and it's all good stuff that I've often been finding out about from blogs, this thread, following certain labels/distros (mostly La Vida Es Un Mus tbh) and will definitely be reading this regularly from now on.

nice! quite well-written, too.

it's me

thx both

Ohhhh, that's you? For some reason, despite me reading that column and it featuring a bunch of my friends and actually meeting you at Supernormal, I had failed to make that connection also.

well I don't make a big fuss abt it and a lot of the bands are fairly indifferent to being covered I think, esp in an arena like tQ, but it's an enjoyable thing to do either way

The band I am in is giving away our second record for free because it just turned ten on our bandcamp site

https://stnnng.bandcamp.com/album/fake-fake

nice

Just downloaded the 2015 demo by Remiso, band from Malmo but could've fooled me they were from early 90s Japan tbh. Great hardcore with a bit of metal (some soloing in some of the songs basically) does not sound like a demo tape.

bad noids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxU1hkofbSE&feature=youtu.be

new Career Suicide album is really good

I can't find a more recent thread (RIP search) but so the band I play in, STNNNG, has a new record coming out and you can listen to the first song

https://modernradio.bandcamp.com/track/the-last-nostalgia

RIP Load records

Is there not a 2017 version of this thread?

Anyway, new Thoughts of Ionesco tune: https://corpseflowerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/thoughts-of-ionesco-skar-cymbals

i like what i've heard of this US Weekly album: https://nightmoveslabel.bandcamp.com/

RIP Load records

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I haven't really followed them in recent years, still bummed about this

i sold all my old punk records yesterday woo!

this 'Horrendous New Wave' comp sounds great: https://soundcloud.com/lumpyrex/western-civ-fun-ladies-in-white

fuck it, new thread: Rolling punk/non-indie underground 2017