It’s hard to explain how I felt when I heard this material for the first time. I guess it was a love at the first sight, mainly because Downstater is unlike any other melodic punk rock band on the contemporary melodic punk rock scene. To be honest, I was not familiar with their music until… Read More Downstater – Mourning Vibes II CD (People Of Punk Rock Records)
Dicrotic are back on the map with another great material named Disposable Feelings. After the immensely successful EP called Mind Your Business, which we included on our pages, these Spanish melody makers are delivering even more complex compositions than ever before. For some reason, Disposable Feelings has been divided into two corresponding sections, both offering… Read More Dicrotic – Disposable Feelings
Backdrop Falls are coming from Fortaleza, Brazil and their distinctive blend of punk rock pervaded with subtle doses of heartfelt reflexive lyrics, melancholic melodies, and highly energetic rhythms delivered with so much sense are a bit of refreshment that melodic punk rock scene despairingly needed for a very long time. The band was established in… Read More Backdrop Falls – There’s No Such Place As Home CD (Various Labels)
Today, we are covering highly anticipated debut album by Knocked Down, a band hailing from Stockton, California. The band has been developed back in late 2016. by Chris Whaley and Tony Heckerman with a clear aim to distribute great musicianship through technically precise pop-punk music. So far, Knocked Down has published an EP in 2017,… Read More Knocked Down – Anything But Luck
Enemy Of My Enemy is a female-fronted melodic punk rock band formed several years ago in Santa Cruz, California. The band includes former members of Six Steps To Hell, Hate Brigade, Culo a Boca, Fury 66, Dead Set, Fire Whiskey…etc. and so far the band has published a magnificent 7” record called Igniter, including three… Read More Enemy Of My Enemy – Enemy Of My Enemy LP (Snubbed Records)
With great certainty, I can conclude there isn’t any other Serbian band that sounds alike Shoplifters. Somehow, these guys crafted their own style by encompassing the essence of Californian melodic punk rock, portions of proto-grunge, an indie production, the energetic impulse of rock’n’roll music, but nevertheless, Secret Free World is essentially a punk rock album.… Read More Shoplifters – Secret Free World LP (Various Labels)
Michael Circle is an incredible female-fronted melodic punk rock quintet from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Formed a couple of years ago, they’ve managed to record a magnificent demo which has been published in 2017. The band has made a couple of changes in their sound here and there, but they’ve remained loyal to the melodic punk… Read More Michael Circle – A Completely Different Conversation
Fabled Mind is a skate punk rock band recently established in Copenhagen, Denmark and Passenger is their première full-length recording which has been published digitally by LockJaw Records a couple of days ago. The Passenger refers to the danger of becoming a passenger of your own life, without the capacity to modify certain circumstances and… Read More Fabled Mind – Passenger (LockJaw Records)
Western Settings have announced a brand new material on A-F Record and Gunner Records back in August, but somehow I’ve forgotten about it after the band has premiered a single track named Break alongside with the following announcement. Thankfully, Another Year already got some positive reviews on several websites and blogs, so Another Year appears… Read More Western Settings – Another Year LP (A-F Records / Gunner Records)
We Are Your Radio For The Night So Shut Up And Dance is a secondary EP by the Dutch melodic punk rock quartet called Sidewalk, and our loyal readers, who are browsing our blog on a daily basis had an opportunity to read a couple of rows about their Here And Now EP we recently… Read More Sidewalk – We Are Your Radio For The Night So Shut Up And Dance EP (’59SRS Records)
Sidewalk is a punk rock band whose affection for punk rock music reaches beyond contemporary trends considering that band nourishes the sound of 90’s skatepunk music. Established in Utrecht, the Netherlands in 2009, the band has recorded dozen of extended plays such as What To Do (2010), We Are Your Radio For The Night So… Read More Sidewalk – Here And Now EP (Morning Wood Records / ’59SRS Records / Boripunk Records)
According to some rumors circling in DIY punk rock circles, this album is reasonably the most awaited record of the year. Tsunami Bomb was formed in Petaluma, California by Dominic Davi back in 1998. and has recorded two full-lengths, five extended plays, countless singles, and has appeared on impressive quantities of compilations until their disbanding… Read More Tsunami Bomb – The Spine That Binds LP (Alternative Tentacles)
