Tagged: USA

Not Just Another Underground Compilation… An MF Exclusive Premiere.

Eye Tape Records – New Haven/Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. The internet is a wonderful place that is full of as much rubbish as it is beneficial or relevant and useful material and when it comes to music, that is especially true. We and undoubtedly yourselves have seen a exponential rise in...

The Northeast – The ‘Jericho’ EP.

The Northeast – Mount Kisco, New York, USA. Initially forming in 2012 but really coming into themselves in 2015, New York state’s The Northeast are the perfect soundtrack for the free and easy in generality as well as on those days and nights of comfort and happiness. Rooting their sound...

Dot Dash… The “Lifer” Band Of DC…

Dot Dash – Washington DC, USA. Photo credit: – J Scott Watson. With all the information, history and back catalogues this band have culminated in their individual pasts, I would be sat at this desk (of sorts) for weeks upon end and would likely produce volumes upon volumes with side...

Staff Picks: NOFX – ‘First Ditch Effort’.

NOFX – Los Angeles, California, USA. Mike has been a busy-punker in recent years, releasing new music with cover super-group Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, writing a (s)hit musical and coming out as a transvestite. Some wondered if the day would ever arrive when we’d get to hear a...

Sneaks – ‘Gymnastics’ Album review.

Sneaks – Washington DC, USA. Gymnastics has recently got a re-issue on Merge Records, I caught it when it was previously on Danger Records, but MF was on it’s hiatus – so now we are back, it seems perfect to be reviewing it now. Sneaks is making danceable electro-dotted Punk music...

Cicero & The Orations – ‘Things That Endure’.

Cicero & The Orations – Goldens Bridge, New York, USA. ‘You want that sound you’ve been looking for? Then you’re in the right place.’ What was to become the Goldens Bridge, New York, based Cicero & The Orations formed in 2009, where a fusion of sounds from playful contemporary Indie...

#WhatWeMissed: Coercion 96 – The ‘Exit Wounds’ EP.

Coercion 96 – San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. For our review on the single ‘Crime Spree’ – Click Here.  ‘[…] the opening rumble sounding akin to a more Punk-Rock Black Sabbath and a hoarse yet subdued vocal style in the beginning sitting close to 80’s Thrash and Hardcore […]’...

#WhatWeMissed: Three Grams – Denver’s Punk-Rock ‘Awakening’.

Three Grams – Denver, Colorado, USA. Photo Credit – Brian Bonsall. For our previous work on Three Grams – Click Here. The first in our #WhatWeMissed series charts the new EP from Denver’s Three Grams, who recently released their first numerically substantial release since 2012’s Forever Hold Your Piece. The new...

Donkey Island Penitentiary – ‘Exile On 4th Street’.

Donkey Island Penitentiary – Los Angeles, California, USA. Escaped convicts of Donkey Island Penitentiary are creeping through the underground of the LA Punk scene. Armed with guitars and harmonicas, the Country-Blues-Punk criminals have recently released their debut EP Exile On 4th Street and if their name didn’t grip you enough, the...