rolling punk rock 2023

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.

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

what is in the goddamn water in Melbourne? crazy number of bands coming out of there, punk and otherwise ... (but lots of punk bands)

I love this thread, will try and remember to contribute

huuuge co-sign on the black button record

woooo this split system album starts strong, nice

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

sheesh!

instagram.com/p/CqYQEcCL_br/?hl=en

aw man ... that's not what i wanted to happen. let's try this:

Yeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! pic.twitter.com/SH98XyoliG

— drain831 (@drain831) March 29, 2023

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

awesome

hell yes

https://poisonruin.bandcamp.com/album/h-rvest

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

Oh yeah this looks cool. I am a fan of Celluloid Lunch, they are doing some cool stuff.

saw Public Acid last night in a warehouse in Richmond— sick set

https://publicacid.bandcamp.com/album/condemnation-ep

Bet that would sound good live. Lots of good shows in Richmond these days, hope to make some more here and there.

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.

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

^^ yea they kick ass.

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

man I have really been digging The Mummies lately

thanks ums

god, Feel It Records is on fire

about one in 500 of these kinda bands does it for me but this just slays

hell yes this stools album rools

also 12 songs...23 minutes :)

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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/arts/music/hardcore-music-diversity.html?fbclid=PAAaZkqPKolVM7RT9ManPpSn7aMMH-rmbUdaWFdQcbDojOn1oz_BToMYkTRW4_aem_th_Ae7yjD1IS0NG6-wVCbkyzM80_KIt7DLF3pfIYk1rejpTTQuUYgzkwXwv79xU0U7k7kE

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.”

Man just getting to that Poison Ruin album and it's awesome. Gonna be my bike riding soundtrack all summer, guaranteed.

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

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

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

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.

i’ve been listening to this one recently, saw them play a while back.

https://poisonruin.bandcamp.com/album/h-rvest

oh they are playing at Static Shock in September

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

new Silicone Prairie! one of the best weirdos out there doin' it: https://siliconeprairie.bandcamp.com/album/vol-ii

i haven't stopped listening to the tubs album. easily one of my favourite album in years

yeah, it rules soooooo hard

the way i wriggle like a worm
the way i writhe
the way i squirm

you wake up
and you're back
in a repulsive life in a repulsive flat

the pairing of richard thompson chest voice and jangle is so perfect i can't believe no one's done it before. the singing is so beautiful

i think i'm losing my mind
for goo-ood this time

the squeaky background vocal on "Wretched Lie" ... why do i love it so much? what a strange and wonderful choice by the band. how do you even get there?

it's early yet and I have catching up to do but my favourite punk records so far of 2023 are:

destruct cries the mocking mother nature
eunix demo 2023 CS
JJ & the A's s/t 7"
massacred post-mortem 7"
planet on a chain - boxed in
sial sangkar 7"
scarecrow [US, NC] crisis 7"
shrinkwrap killers feed the clones pt. 1
thatcher's snatch - white collar man 7"
warcycle manifesting barbarity 7"

I didn't know Mark Astronaut died last year :((((

But there's one last album, and the preview track sounds glorious, and fuck it, he'll be back again tomorrow, just you wait and see...

https://growyourownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lp

xp Colonel Poo your recommendations are always appreciated and often great and glad you're more active on ilx again.

i haven't stopped listening to the tubs album. easily one of my favourite album in years

― flopson, Wednesday, August 2, 2023 1:26 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

i fucking LOVE this record so much

It's so good.

some 2023 brutality I have been enjoying

Life Expectancy - Decline (dbeat-y stuff)

https://ironlungrecords.bandcamp.com/album/decline-lungs-256

Exhibition - The Last Laugh (Boston-y stuff)

https://bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-laugh

That Home Front album is great

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

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

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.

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

incredible album

https://liquids1.bandcamp.com/album/life-is-pain-idiot

(2021 but w/e)

I only heard it this year too. their earlier Hot Liqs is good as well but Life Is Pain Idiot is best

I'm blasting it right now, it's 8:30 AM

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

new punk thread for 2024 is here