Nancy - With Child

"Finally these Brooklyn based power-pop blockhead goofballs have brought us With Child. Yes, yes it's true they are now with child and it's quite...pretty. You may be familiar with them from their quality 2013 demo tape that featured such smooth hits as I Want One, Midnite, and Holiday. Well there are eight new songs for the glam punk side of your brain to hear. There is one cover song and it's done the NANCY way."

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Rik and the Pigs - Life's A Bust

"The second 7” from RIK AND THE PIGS is finally here, a smoking follow-up to 2015's "Pig Sweat" single on Total Punk. “Life's A Bust” features three new tracks recorded between Rik's time in Portland and his new home base of Olympia, WA. Side A boasts two cuts of completely savage and hook-filled punk – exactly the kind of snot and filth that you'd expect from Rik & Co. On the flip, “Life's A Bust” is a completely different animal, a loose and driving five minute tune featuring incredible guitar work and drumming from Michael Liebman and Corey Rose of Olympia's VEXX. "

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Soda Boys - Soda Boys

"Five song demo from some St. Louis hotdoggers that sounds a hell of a lot like the Gizmos dragged into the modern age, real rock'n'roll sounds from the front edges of the KBD-era, garage-rock with fun hooks and a Penetrators-esque delivery. Recorded lo-fi, these dudes play their guts out, the singer actually sings, there are some ripping solos and riffs too - these kids can play. 'Go Girl Crazy'-era Dictators should be mentioned in this conversation as well as the Dolls without the make-up/glam. Outstanding stuff, all five songs are about girls, soda, burgers, hot dogs and America. I'm excited about this one. The singer is just called The Soda Jerk and the other dudes have awesome and dumb soda-punk pseudonymns."

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Helta Skelta - Beyond The Black Stump LP

Personally I'm very stoked about this release, the band was my first ever blogspot post since this blogs inception and somewhat of an influence in starting this blog, the band is doing a US tour next year, so rejoice with this contemporary Australian punk BANGER.

"Helta Skelta is the newest face of Australian punk - there I said it. Granted they already have an album and a few singles under their belt, Beyond the Black Stump sounds very different from previous outputs and believe this is the album people have been waiting for them to write. It's hands-down their strongest batch of songs, and the recording does them complete justice. The various elements of this album have always been there, swirling in the soup of varied influences and ideas these guys soak in, but this album smacks of a band getting its ducks in a row. In particular, Jon's vocals have mellowed from an earlier, more aggressive hardcore delivery into a brilliantly snarky, deadpan, sardonic drawl that draws easy comparison to EDDIE CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING or X. The guitars are tight, choppy and bright, the bass and drums pin the beat down with straightforward but rock-solid rhythms."

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Cuntz - Force The Zone LP

"Cuntz are, obviously, well hardcore, spitting out noisy garage punk with not a care in the world. Third album Force The Zone offers more of the Australian trio’s gnarly thrashing: they sound like they’ve spent too long in the Yabba and it has warped their minds."

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Uranium Club - Human Exploration LP

If you're not listening to this by now, you're fucking up.

 FFO: Wire, The Fall, Shitty Limits, early Total Control, Parquet Courts

Klaus - Demo 2015

"4 Tracks of UK82 inspired Punk from 2 people who live on opposite sides of the world.

PERSON1: Drew from the USA (SICK THOUGHTS, CHICKEN CHAIN) the monster playing all the instruments on the tracks
PERSON 2: Jon the Pom who lives in AUS (PRAG, HELTA SKELTA) punching out the aggro vocals.

 They've never played a gig and I don’t think the members have even met each other which certainly creates an interesting dynamic. A wafting GBH stench comes to mind and there also seems to be a Hard Rock undertone seeping though with these tracks."

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The Achtungs - Welcome To Hell LP

The Finnish rock 'n' roll mutants are back again, this time around with their 2nd LP. 10 tracks of sleazy degenarate garage punk.

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Benny and The Roids - Demo 2015

Newish demo from your new favorite punk rock 'n' roll outfit from LA. 
OutFUCKINGstanding Demo, so many catchy riffs and singalongs.

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Sick Thoughts - Fat Kid with a 10 inch

"Have you ever been to Hanover, PA? I‘ve spent time there, and It’s WEIRD. Hanover is lousy with mongoloids/juggalos and slack jawed farm people. Drew Owen, otherwise known as SICK THOUGHTS, was born there, and through the benevolent seer abilities of his dad was fortunate enough to escape to Baltimore, MD, currently ranked in the top 30 most dangerous cities in the USA. Monsieur Owen has somehow overcome his geographically debilitating boundaries, and with the aid of no one but his own 17 year old genius, has vinyl releases on labels from Italy (Goodbye Boozy), Sweden (Ken Rock), Zaxxon (Canada), and a few American imprints, including an upcoming single on Memphis’ finest, Goner Records. This large hole 10” on Black Gladiator is the nastiest recording we’ve heard yet from this pudgy, pimple faced fucker. Sick Thoughts channels GG and the Jabbers and Japanese noise with heavy negatory spirit on each track - a sonically screwed and puberty drenched hatful of hateful punk rock sputum."

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Hank Wood and the Hammerheads - Stay Home LP

The NYC chicken killaz are at it again...

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Helta Skelta - Asbestos EP

"It's been over a year since their debut LP was released but events have collided and this release has come into its own. It sees Helta Skelta moving in a slightly different direction but still keeping the aggression and catchiness of past work. Broadening influences a little and really working to put down something solid."

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Hank Wood and The Hammerheads - Go Home! LP

Long awaited debut LP from scuzzy NY band, Hank Wood & The Hammerheads.

These chicken killaz kick out 12 songs of insanely catchy, keyboard-drenched, lo-fi garage punk bangers.

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Hank Wood And The Hammerheads - I Don't Play Games by CarpetRash

Fag Cop​ -​ Whimpers From The Pantheon

Newest LP from Kansas band FAG COP.
Hands down still the best band name ever, in my opinion.
This is some reverb drenched lo-fi, or rather, no-fi garage punk.
it's malicious and crude, not for the faint of heart.

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