This is the second round up of a load of the stuff I have been sent but just had zero time to review, share etc, being someone who is working full time from home + Looking after my son, time is less available at the moment, I still want to as always help support small/Medium bands and labels, but most reviews are likely gonna be short and sweet.
Keep safe everyone and if your bored after reading this and checking out some cool bands. please go check out my label Cat’s Claw Records I have a few releases in the pipeline once normality has become our friend again, but go listen to the bands I have released and grab a tape if you want to help support the label and bands.
Brad Marino – False Alarm
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You gotta love ‘Brad Marino’ blend of feel good power pop with it’s garage rock edge, Single number 2 ‘What’s My Scene?‘ is catchy, well produced and make you feel 10 shots of whisky warm.
This single will be on BM’s latest ep False Alarm, out soon via Rum Bar Records
The Ramonescore Brigade Lp
The Ramonescore Brigade Lp started out as an idea on Facebook where a bunch of up and coming bands along with a few veterans pooled together to fund a Lp compilation by themselves without any label help. They quickly put together a tracklist of 20 bands from all over the globe. A few labels stepped in to help out with distribution but this comp is DIY in every sense of the word. You’re gonna get exactly what you think you’re going to get with a name like “Ramonescore brigade” if you’re a fan of Ramonescore you’re going to love this comp.
Mixing up the best melodic punk, pop punk and Ramones-Core, this LP is a really awesome listen, and will introduce you to some truly killer bands that will likely stay close to your heart and make your ears dance with Joy.
Out 15/5/2020 on the following sweeeeeeet labels.
Live Ones – Right On Sister
LIVE ONES are a Hopped up 3 piece Rock’n’Roll in the grand New York tradition. Catchy tunes, howling vocals, and a big beat. Sweaty live show. Real live Rock’n’Roll! We’ll sleep when we’re dead…
True elements of CBGBs infused grit, grime and grease, bashing drums, pulsating bass grooves, ripping guitar hooks, a fistfull of punk, the howl of the Motor City, and a whole lotta attitude with songs and chops to boot, that’ll stick in your head like melted chewing gum stuck to the sole of your worn out chuck taylor shoe. Before Quarantine, LIVE ONES were a live Fixture in NYC and the surrounding East Coast playing many times a month in Brooklyn, Manhattan, NJ, New Haven, Connecticut, PA, Hudson Valley and so on, they were a known go to and drawing act supporting touring bands and headlining many known clubs from Bowery Electric to Cafe 9, to dive bars, hole in the walls, and bowling alleys. LIVE ONES are to be experienced on record & LIVE.
Catbite and Omnigone Announce Covers Split
California independent label, Bad Time Records, will be releasing a unique split 7-inch at the start of June.
The release pairs Philadelphia’s soul-ska outfit, Catbite with East Bay’s newest ska-punk trio Omnigone – featuring members of the beloved late 90’s ska-core band Link 80.
Catbite and Omnigone released their debut albums on Bad Time Records last year and quickly developed a fond appreciation of each others music.
To celebrate their new found e-friendship, both bands decided to cover one another and put their personal touch on it.
Additionally, Catbite recorded a cover of the classic Clash tune “White Riot” while Omnigone did an updated version of Link 80’s “Nothing New.”
You can stream Catbite’s take on “White Riot” right now at The Key. “We had just learned a bunch of two-tone ska songs and a couple clash songs for a local London Calling Anniversary show. So I said, fuck it let’s record the punkest, least ska song we know right now for this. Thus White Riot.” – Tim Hildebrand (Catbite). Pre-orders for the split 7-inch are live at Bad Time Records.
Release Date: June 5th, 2020
Label: Bad Time Records
Formats: Digital/Vinyl
Pre-Order
Catbite: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Omnigone: Instagram | Facebook
Bad Time Records: Instagram | Facebook
Album Art:
Adam Davis
Adam Carpenter – Obliterate/Ugly
Acoustic Indie punk, Adam Makes heartfelt music for a lost generation exploring the connection between body and Brain, hey guys this bag of bones be float within in a complicated machine, that needs care and understanding.
AC has taken inspiration from Martha, Lucy Dacus and Fresh whilst he put this record together, go grab a listen.
Hopewood – Nowhere to be Found
‘Hopewood’ were a band from Sheffield, UK from 2004 – 2007, featuring ex and current members of Reuben, The Run Up, Mixtape Saints, Guerrilla Monsoon.
This record was the follow-up to their debut (and to date only released) 2004 EP yet was “lost’ having been mastered following the break-up of the band and ultimately never released. It was stumbled upon when cleaning a laptop and circulated. We’re opening up this release; it’s worthy of your time.
‘Nowhere to be Found’ is a lush tribute to early 90’s emo rock, I’m talking Saves the Day and the Get Up Kids rather than the 00’s bullshit.
Beautifully textured melodies with catchy hooks and enough feel good to bring the dead from their graves, to join the party.
It’s great these tracks have surfaced after all these years, and I feel they have stood the test of time really well, you could quite imagine this sitting really nicely along side the modern day Indie and alt Rock bands of today
Play loud
8/10
Out 19th June digitally via Real Ghost Records
Born Shit Stirrers – Lester
The new album preview from thous Look Out loving , screeching weasel worshiping punkers.
‘Lester’ grabs hold of your mate pop punk, mixes it with booze and fags, gurgles petrol whilst on a crack binge, sets fire to a police car, shits in a brown paper bag, setting fire to it and chucking it in the faces of anyone it fucking feels like.Short sharp buzz saw anthems for a disillusioned generation , these dudes take generation X and give them a massive punt in the nuts.
Drink hard and listen Loud.
Coming soon to Serial Bowl Records
CLIFFHANGER RELEASES “DIANE” MUSIC VIDEO
Super rad pop punk goodness for ya ears.
Nude Shoes – Billy’s Here, Love, I’ve Got to Go (Official Music Video)
Pop punk, taking influence from 90’s Alt Rock
Brand new Heckel & Jeckel from Pogo Records
After a 1st album in CD and 4 EP in less than 3 months,
French angry crows are back this year with 2 NEW EPs !!!
big slap, even heavier and bewitching !!!! Grunge punk stoner punk
Satori vs. Dr. EchoDub Defender Sessions
Steven Jess Borth II created Satori in 2005, as a side project from Rx Bandits, to showcase his own songwriting and reggae influences. The band’s debut LP, Savor Every Moment,was released on Asian Man Records and served as a very promising stepping stone for what Borth had to offer. Following the release, Borth enlisted Justin DeHart, aka Dr. Echo, as a live sound engineer to fill out the sound of the trio and reflect the growing dub direction of the project. This would eventually evolve into the more experimental project, CHLLNGR, which is a collaborative effort between Steven Jess Borth II and Justin DeHart. However, in the time between shifting focus from Satori to CHLLNGR, Steven Jess Borth II, Justin DeHart, and a cast of very talented musicians recorded a batch of songs that were lost in time. These tracks were salvaged and now make up the album titled Dub Defender Sessions.
Both originally from Sacramento, CA, Borth currently resides in Copenhagen, Denmark and DeHart in Christchurch, New Zealand. Bonded by a love for dub music and sonic exploration, Borth contributes his compositions, sax, synth and vocal performances while Dr. Echo transforms the tunes with his dub mixing. The Dub Defender Sessions album is a nod to late-70’s steppers and 80’s rockers dub style. These are session-based old-school reggae rhythms with synths and electronic augmentation. Featuring guest performances by current and ex members of Rx Bandits, Link 80, Bruce Springsteen, The Exit, Hepcat, The Toasters, Westbound Train, and The English Beat this collection of songs is dub time capsule finally getting its moment to shine.
Satori vs. Dr. EchoDub Defender Sessions will be released via Anicca Records on the 22nd of May
FRND CRCL – Loose Cannon
90’s influenced pop punk from ‘FRND CRCL’ Never taking themselves to serious, and able to write catchy , hook filled nuggets of rad.
Listen below.
South London, UK Ska/Punk 5-piece Call Me Malcolm Sign With Wiretap Records
Stream Call Me Malcolm’s two new music videos here:
“Wake Up, The Monster Said”
“What You Burn”
South London, UK Ska/Punk 5-piece Call Me Malcolm has signed with LA-based label Wiretap Records, to unleash their new full-length album “Me, Myself and Something Else” on Friday, May 15th.
The announcement follows the release of the band’s two recent singles and music videos from the album, “Wake Up, The Monster Said”, and “What You Burn”, both of which you can watch below.
The band says, “We’re ecstatic to be welcomed into the Wiretap Records family for the release of ‘Me, Myself and Something Else.’ After two years of love and devotion to a record, it’s incredible to be working with a label who shares not only the same passion for the music that we make but also about creating a supportive global scene.”
‘Me, Myself and Something Else’ will be available on all digital services starting May 15. 12″ vinyl copies of the record are also now available pre-order at www.wiretaprecords.com.
Awesome Live Streams to watch in Lock Down…
16/05/20:
17th May
Marcus from NY Ska heroes ‘The Slackers’ will be doing a live happy hour.
His last live stream was great, so check it out.
Western Addiction – Frail Bray
Hardcore Punk Rock legends ‘Western Addiction’ new album comes out today (15/5/20) this is exactly what you need to blow the cobwebs from your ears, full of Melody, grit, passion and angst, ‘Frail Bray’ will take on the apocalypse head-on with a Molotov cocktail and a flick knife.
Play loud, this record is killer.
Record out now via Fat Wreck Chords
Keeping Punk Rock Elite 
love the slackers btw
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