Coercion 96 – San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. This was an email we were not expecting… Luke Pabich of seminal Santa Cruz Punks, Good Riddance has just announced the revival of side-project, Coercion 96. The band originally formed in 1996 and alongside Pabich, now features former Fury 66 bassist, Thomas...
Trashed Ambulance – Red Dear, Alberta, Canada. Punk music is going through something of a resurgence across it’s broad spectrum. The genre’s original trailblazers are still revered and rightly so, but what we are seeing now is huge boost in the scene’s output, sitting closer to the late 80’s and 90’s...
Denver, Colorado, USA. Finds From The Soundscape: A Glance At Denver’s Rock and Punk Scene. Cover photo of ‘The Larimers’. You may remember our article on Denver Punk n’ Rollers E/M/P back in December. In said article I hinted at a yearning for a visit to this fine musical city...
Bombs Are Falling – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Photo credit – Matt Gleeson. Bombs Are Falling hail from Melbourne, Australia and they are a band, a band that play lyrically assertive Skate Punk in a fast and melodic manner. Review over. Go home. Don’t go home, because this band need to...
United Defiance – Concord, California, USA. ‘United Defiance is far more than just the members in the band. We do not see the need for competition with other bands, we raise our fist in support to you all.’ For our review of Way It’s Gonna Be – Click Here. Photo...
Templeton Pek – Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. – Photo by Kris Andrew Askey I’ve had Birmingham lot, Templeton Pek, in my lugholes for yonks now. And now, stereotypical English slang aside, it is finally time for some words on the band’s fourth full-length, New Horizons. The band’s sound has always moved between fast-to-...
When the designers of early video games first developed the ability to synthesise sound in gaming back in the 1970s, there was not much scope for creativity. However the idea of music in games has grown over time and is now a huge part of the industry. When Atari unleashed...
United Defiance – Concord, California, USA. Raw Melodic Hardcore from across the pond. United Defiance, a four-piece hailing from Concord in that great state of Punk-Rock, California. Some of my favourite bands hail from that sunny, healthy place, and it is somewhere I plan on visiting one day. For now however,...