Hey UMS!
I will put up something from a band I got to see live recently and really liked. Not gonna try to explain it too much, guess it is hardcore leaning punk rock but kind of swings and leans rock a bit more than some. At times the guitars give me a bit of a Monorchid feel for some reason, but yeah I dig this. From Richmond. In particular the song "Great Closing Sleep" rules in my opinion.
https://blackbuttonva.bandcamp.com/album/rejoice
― grandavis, Monday, 27 February 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
^^ ok I am loving that, thanks
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Monday, 27 February 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link
Sure, glad to hear! Nice folks too.
― grandavis, Monday, 27 February 2023 21:43 (one year ago) link
Don’t know much about 2023 punk; this popped up in my Twitter feed
https://www.spin.com/2023/02/best-new-punk-february-2023/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
Lies They Tell Our Children by Anti-Flag. This and their past works are made for every generation suffering under corruption.
― gauzestromboli, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
weird little tape featured in Bandcamp's "New and Notable" section today:
- Josnali - Enemy Talk EP- "Call it egg punk or Devo-garage or whatever you like: this EP from Indonesian band Josnali has sass, charm, and lo-fi hooks to spare."- Three tracks in 2:30
https://syfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/josnali-enemy-talk-ep
― alpine static, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 05:57 (one year ago) link
Nice, will check this out
― grandavis, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
love the Josnali, good stuff, lol it is literally a 3 minute tape
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:39 (one year ago) link
yeah. three more songs/minutes would've been nice!
― alpine static, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:06 (one year ago) link
today's rolling punk thread album of the week is from guitar-less (!) Mississippi hardcore-meets-hip-hop-ish band MSPAINT, who seem capable of filling this year's Turnstile lane:
https://convulserecords.bandcamp.com/album/post-american
― alpine static, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
bookmarked—
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Thursday, 9 March 2023 02:11 (one year ago) link
MSPAINT is cool
Cannot for the life of me get into Turnstile
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 March 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
I liked that last record but don't really know any of their previous stuff. Apparently they've blown up pretty big?
― alpine static, Thursday, 9 March 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
Hattiesburg seemingly has a pretty great punk/hardcore community. Just saw Judy and the Jerks a couple of months ago and it ripped! MSPAINT very different but seem cool, enjoying it after a couple of tracks.
― grandavis, Thursday, 9 March 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
I know this is not exactly new, but it is new to me (still making my way through recommendations from lists last year, pretty sure this came for the Sorry State Records employee lists). Just a really good blast of straightforward guitar driven punk from Australia. Band is Split System. Put my favorite song up which will pretty much tell you whether you would wanna listen to more (apologies if this was covered last year, came out towards the end of the year though).
https://splitsystem.bandcamp.com/track/grip
― grandavis, Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
what is in the goddamn water in Melbourne? crazy number of bands coming out of there, punk and otherwise ... (but lots of punk bands)
― alpine static, Thursday, 9 March 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
I love this thread, will try and remember to contribute
― ennui soundsystem (doobydoo), Thursday, 9 March 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
huuuge co-sign on the black button record
― ennui soundsystem (doobydoo), Thursday, 9 March 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link
woooo this split system album starts strong, nice
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 March 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
Been enjoying this Waste Man EP. Short and sweet with good riffs and some range across the three songs. A pretty cool sound overall.
https://wastemannola.bandcamp.com/album/waste-man-2
― grandavis, Thursday, 16 March 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
sheesh!
instagram.com/p/CqYQEcCL_br/?hl=en
― alpine static, Thursday, 30 March 2023 07:43 (one year ago) link
aw man ... that's not what i wanted to happen. let's try this:
Yeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! pic.twitter.com/SH98XyoliG— drain831 (@drain831) March 29, 2023
― alpine static, Thursday, 30 March 2023 07:44 (one year ago) link
saw this band on Saturday, they were good, encore was a killer version of The Sonics' "The Witch"
https://thesmokes1.bandcamp.com/album/g-o-v-t-graffiti
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
awesome
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link
hell yes
https://poisonruin.bandcamp.com/album/h-rvest
― alpine static, Friday, 21 April 2023 19:15 (eleven months ago) link
https://celluloidlunch.bandcamp.com/album/da-slyme-if-theres-no-rubble-you-havent-played-collected-recordings-1977-89
anticipating this (re?)issue of recordings by legendary newfoundland 1977 proto-punk band Da Slyme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIKelbu8AXs
― flopson, Friday, 21 April 2023 23:56 (eleven months ago) link
Oh yeah this looks cool. I am a fan of Celluloid Lunch, they are doing some cool stuff.
― grandavis, Saturday, 22 April 2023 17:13 (eleven months ago) link
saw Public Acid last night in a warehouse in Richmond— sick sethttps://publicacid.bandcamp.com/album/condemnation-ep
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 1 May 2023 12:14 (eleven months ago) link
Bet that would sound good live. Lots of good shows in Richmond these days, hope to make some more here and there.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 12:53 (eleven months ago) link
it was really good, tight drumming and excellent bass, and shockingly, the vocals were mixed in a similar way as on the records— not too high in the mix, so it sounded sort of scuzzy but great at the same time.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 15:20 (eleven months ago) link
Sunami is my neighbor's band and they are incredibly nice dudes and super talented and have incredible amounts of hype. Go see them play if they come to your town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzaIwLG8GKk
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 May 2023 22:21 (eleven months ago) link
^^ yea they kick ass.
― brimstead, Friday, 12 May 2023 22:41 (eleven months ago) link
garage punk really only works when the band taps into some kinda feral mutant energy that takes it somewhere, like early oblivions or jay reatard or blind shake or mummies...The Stools from Detroit have it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7y0lqLcFNI
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 June 2023 16:06 (ten months ago) link
man I have really been digging The Mummies lately
thanks ums
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Friday, 2 June 2023 16:09 (ten months ago) link
god, Feel It Records is on fire
― alpine static, Friday, 2 June 2023 16:17 (ten months ago) link
about one in 500 of these kinda bands does it for me but this just slays
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 June 2023 16:24 (ten months ago) link
hell yes this stools album rools
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Friday, 2 June 2023 16:26 (ten months ago) link
also 12 songs...23 minutes :)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 June 2023 16:36 (ten months ago) link
Oooh that is nice. Feel It started as a Charlottesville label, but I have not been keeping up hah hah. Pretty high hit rate for sure though.
― grandavis, Friday, 2 June 2023 19:39 (ten months ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/arts/music/hardcore-music-diversity.html?fbclid=PAAaZkqPKolVM7RT9ManPpSn7aMMH-rmbUdaWFdQcbDojOn1oz_BToMYkTRW4_aem_th_Ae7yjD1IS0NG6-wVCbkyzM80_KIt7DLF3pfIYk1rejpTTQuUYgzkwXwv79xU0U7k7kE
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 13:55 (ten months ago) link
NY Times : The day’s lineup, a showcase for the respected Baltimore and New York label Flatspot, illustrated how hardcore is rapidly diverging from its former status as an outlet for largely white, male aggression. The three friends from Atlanta arrived just in time to catch the end of a raucous set by Buggin, a Chicago quartet featuring the caustic shout of its nonbinary Black singer, Bryanna Bennett. The bill also included two female-fronted acts, Baltimore’s Jivebomb and Scowl, from Santa Cruz, Calif.; Australia’s Speed, featuring members of Asian descent; Colombia’s Raw Brigade; and Regulate, whose Colombia-born frontman, Sebastian Paba, grappled with Eurocentric beauty standards on the 2022 track “Hair.”
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 13:57 (ten months ago) link
Man just getting to that Poison Ruin album and it's awesome. Gonna be my bike riding soundtrack all summer, guaranteed.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Thursday, 8 June 2023 21:46 (ten months ago) link
https://missespanha.bandcamp.com/album/niebla-mental
enjoying this spanish keyboards/drums/bass punk band Miss España - makes me think of Le Tigre but more straight-ahead rocking and no samples
― na (NA), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 19:25 (nine months ago) link
https://postpresentmedium.bandcamp.com/album/lost-to-the-fantasy
Debt Rag, which is ALSO based around keyboards/bass/percussion, but are more primitive/experimental art-noise-punk
― na (NA), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 19:29 (nine months ago) link
hi guys what'd i miss?
I have a weekend ticket for the last ever Static Shock Weekend. is punk dead? wtf am I going to do next year
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 28 July 2023 23:54 (eight months ago) link
this year I've seen "retirement tours (except they are still going to do festivals)" by UK Subs and Cockney Rejects, matinee gigs for the old folks by Rubella Ballet, Chaotic Dischord and Disorder, and some gigs by people who can't collect their pension yet by Bad Breeding, Scowl, Flash, Rat Cage, Sniffany & the Nits, Alien Nosejob, the Spits/Private Function and Powerplant.
next week I'm seeing TSOL and Toxic Reasons, and possibly Gang Green, but there is industrial action on the trains so not sure if I can actually get there.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 29 July 2023 00:02 (eight months ago) link
i’ve been listening to this one recently, saw them play a while back. https://poisonruin.bandcamp.com/album/h-rvest
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 29 July 2023 01:31 (eight months ago) link
oh they are playing at Static Shock in September
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 29 July 2023 01:34 (eight months ago) link
good local live band I've seen recently but don't think they've released anything is Electric Cowboy Club, kind of demented Cramps type thing where the singer will crawl around the floor in the audience. they supported the Exploited here a few months ago, and I spoke to their singer recently and he said Wattie came up to him and said he doesn't usually watch support bands but he really liked them lol
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 29 July 2023 01:37 (eight months ago) link
new Silicone Prairie! one of the best weirdos out there doin' it: https://siliconeprairie.bandcamp.com/album/vol-ii
― alpine static, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:05 (eight months ago) link
been playing the recent ep by ismatic guru non-stop, particular the song "a nice man," which has a fierce groove and fantastic punchline
hey, those're my buds! i have been loving that project as well.
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 18 December 2023 13:56 (four months ago) link
I bought the tape. It rules.
― alpine static, Monday, 18 December 2023 18:42 (four months ago) link
hell yes, they rock
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:44 (four months ago) link
more recent tasty lo-fi-synth-punk from Melbourne:
https://erstetheketontraeger.bandcamp.com/album/ett-109-checkpoint-drift-lp
― o. nate, Monday, 18 December 2023 19:53 (four months ago) link
catching up on "best punk albums" lists and this Truth Cult is quite good:
https://truthcultband.bandcamp.com/album/walk-the-wheel-2
― alpine static, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 23:12 (three months ago) link
killer hardcore: https://flatspotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fsr67-concrete-cowboys
― alpine static, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 23:29 (three months ago) link
friend's project i enjoyed, kind of snotty and weird angular punk:
https://trickss.bandcamp.com/album/body-doctrine-enjoyment-tour-tape
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 23:43 (three months ago) link
v happy this thread is getting posts. will catch up on these in a bit.
I am pretty psyched for this hardcore weekender coming up in March that's got Japanese crasher crust legends Framtid headlining. It's a pretty ridiculous line-up in general but I've seen a lot of the bands before anyway
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 21 December 2023 00:21 (three months ago) link
this is the line-up:
FramtidQuarantineThe FlexT.S. WarspiteThe AnnihilatedStingrayEcho ChamberMazandaranDesordenHellscapeCatastrophe
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 21 December 2023 00:22 (three months ago) link
Went to see Armitage Shanks reunion gig tonight. My favourite toilet themed punk band. I love them. Shirts Off is one of my favourite punk songs of all time, esp the version with Billy Childish singing
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 23 December 2023 00:41 (three months ago) link
trying to narrow down to the 20 best punk albums of 2023 and i've got like 50 contenders. bleh.
one that hasn't been posted to this thread all year but should've been is Home Front's Games of Power:
https://arewenothomefront.bandcamp.com/album/games-of-power
Gloomy, glowering synth-punk from, of course, Edmonton, Alberta!
― alpine static, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 19:54 (three months ago) link
really loved that album, especially the title track
def felt more like the beginning of something than a defining work tho
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 21:31 (three months ago) link
xp please post your list here!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 21:35 (three months ago) link
That Home Front album is great
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 21:45 (three months ago) link
Saw Home Front twice last year. Bought Games of Power a couple of weeks ago but haven't played it yet, I already had mp3s of it though
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 21:52 (three months ago) link
I am posting because I saw that the Freeze are playing at Rebellion festival this year. I probably won't go to Rebellion festival but this might mean they play a London gig around that weekend. they might not, the thing with US bands playing London gigs around Rebellion festival is that they are always absolutely dead, because most of the people that would go to them are at Rebellion festival. I once saw Channel 3 play to the support band, me and maybe 3 other people at the Dublin Castle. when the Freeze last came over (about 14 years ago I think) I saw them at the Camden Underworld and they cordoned off the main bar because there weren't enough people to open the bar.
Anyway, I love the Freeze, and I hope I get to see them again
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 30 December 2023 02:59 (three months ago) link
I did play my Home Front LP btw. it's obv v derivative and you can play spot the influence esp that Suicide one lol. but they pretty much nail it and they are fun live so I can dig it.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 30 December 2023 03:04 (three months ago) link
how have I missed all this insanely great Indiana stuff?!?! Mark Winter & Mat Williams and their innumerable aliases, Coneheads, Skull Cult, and this great Abi Ooze from earlier this year
https://abiooze.bandcamp.com/album/julias-apartment-demos
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 31 December 2023 06:51 (three months ago) link
incredible album
https://liquids1.bandcamp.com/album/life-is-pain-idiot
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 31 December 2023 16:04 (three months ago) link
(2021 but w/e)
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 31 December 2023 16:06 (three months ago) link
I only heard it this year too. their earlier Hot Liqs is good as well but Life Is Pain Idiot is best
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 31 December 2023 16:28 (three months ago) link
I'm blasting it right now, it's 8:30 AM
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 31 December 2023 16:29 (three months ago) link
oh it's nearly 8:30 here now I just got home and am pretty fucked tbh. I was at a party in Peacehaven so I am listening to Peter & The Test Tube Babies because they have a song about Peacehaven. gotta say I think it must've been quite different in the early 80s. there were no gangs of marauding teenagers. it was quite windy tbf maybe that put them off
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 1 January 2024 08:13 (three months ago) link
new punk thread for 2024 is here
― alpine static, Monday, 1 January 2024 10:52 (three months ago) link