rolling punk rock 2023

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

this is the line-up:

Framtid
Quarantine
The Flex
T.S. Warspite
The Annihilated
Stingray
Echo Chamber
Mazandaran
Desorden
Hellscape
Catastrophe

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

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!

really loved that album, especially the title track

def felt more like the beginning of something than a defining work tho

xp please post your list here!

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