The goofy and cartoonish weasel, with his signature leather jacket, and smoking cigarette about to frantically jump from his lip, is back for an encore. Yep kids, Screeching Weasel is releasing an anthology of sorts entitled, WeaselMania. Thanks to the folks at Fat Wreck Chords, all the Weasel hits are chronicled here, from “Supermarket Fantasy,” […]
I have to let you in on a little secret before you read the rest of this review. Against Me! is probably the best punk band to arrive on the scene since 2000. If you haven’t already picked up the brilliant Reinventing Axl Rose and As The Eternal Cowboy, you’ve missed out. In the best […]
Annie: GuitarSusy: BassSturgeon: GuitarDanny: Drums The Soviettes are out on tour with Against Me!, the Epoxies, and Smoke or Fire, hitting all 50 states (yes, including Hawaii and Alaska) as well as a few Canadian cities. So basically, there’s no excuse to miss this, the new generation of Fat Wreck Chords bands.
Fat Wreck Chords finally has its answer to the Dropkick Murphys. Rather than Boston Irish, The Real McKenzies are Vancouver Scottish, but the bagpipes and punked-up versions of traditional Scottish songs have the same feel. Who’d have thought that Celtic punk would become its own genre?
The Soviettes aren’t really from the former Soviet Union. They are from someplace almost as cold, though–Minnesota. You wouldn’t know it from listening to their new record, titled L.P. III, though. There are heaping spoonfuls of California and New York in their sound, pop and punk and of course the obligatory 80s influence, but it’s […]
Returning with their 8th studio album, Keep Them Confused, No Use For A Name loses no momentum. A perfect mix of old school ’90s punk rock melody and energetic rhythms should please any NUFAN fan. NUFAN has kept it underground for almost 20 years now (the band was formed in 1987 by current members Tony […]
If you didn’t hear The Epoxies’ self-titled debut, you presumably live in a different dimension. But it’s not too late to immerse yourself in all things Epoxie, as they’re back in full sci-fi force with their sophomore LP, Stop The Future.
Will someone please tell me who the first guy was to sing in that pop-punk voice? You know the one: The nasal, bratty, childlike voice that makes grown men sound like the thirteen-year-old boys that are, after all, their main audience.
I seem to be haunted by organ-enhanced bands these days. Why does that sound so dirty? In any case, Snuff is a not-so-easily-pigeonholed punk rock band from Britain long after it was cool the first time around, but not late enough for it to have been cool for the second. On this compilation, they skip […]
Lagwagon was the first band signed to Fat Wreck Chords, and exemplifies the sound that’s come to be standard for that label–the speeding-bullet drumming, hyper-fast guitars and snotty vocals. They’ve now joined the pantheon of Fat Wreck artists to release a Live in a Dive record. Once again, I’m faced with the task of trying […]
