Tagged: Skate Punk

No Quarter – ‘Freedom’.

No Quarter – Singleton, New South Wales, Australia. Hailing in and around Singleton, New South Wales, Australian Punks No Quarter have been slogging it out since 2003 with a number of sporadic releases and line-up changes depicting all too true and indeed common story of underground bands. However, history is...

‘Tracks You Might Have Missed V1’ – A Thumbhole Records Compilation.

Thumbhole Records – Your Ears, Right Now. Thumbhole Records, based in Reading, United Kingdom, have recently released the first in what is soon to be a long line of compilations showcasing the best in global underground Punk-Rock, Pop-Punk, Indie and Alternative. This is the label’s first major release under their...

Force Events! – ‘Force Events!’.

Force Events! – Mogilev, Belarus. Force Events are a politically charged Punk and Hardcore band from from Mogilev, the band boast break-neck tempos, fist-in-the-air melodies and chorus’ alongside choice cuts of stylistics from the broad spectrum of modern Punk. This is first for Musically Fresh as the band sing in...

Fresh Picks: Perfect Sense.

Perfect Sense – Phoenix, Arizona, USA. To begin, a fun fact: Authority Zero are originally from Arizona and they have certainly made waves in the world of anthemic Punk-Rock music these pasty twenty-plus years and that is fantastic. However, what is also on the parr line of “fantastic” is that...

And Burn – ‘Setbacks’.

And Burn – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. And Burn are a band I’ve been meaning to sit down with for quite some time. I once saw them play at one of the all-so common all-dayers that permeate the Melbourne live music scene, Melbourne being nearest locale to the band’s home. And...

Windover and The ‘Maze’ EP.

Windover – Minsk, Belarus. Hailing from Belarus and Minsk specifically, Windover are a band taking key aspects of the diversity of modern Punk music and twisting it to their needs through soaring and whirling crescendos, break-neck tempos, precision time signatures and utter catharsis. Maze is the band’s debut release, consisting of...

Northern Horizon and The ‘You Let Me Down’ EP.

Northern Horizon – Newcastle, England, United Kingdom. The Newcastle-based Northern Horizon have been described in the past as a band that sound as if ‘Green Day gave All Time Low a songwriting lesson’ and have released their second EP that in many ways, is pretty-well summed up by the above statement....

Ocean Sunset View – The ‘On Your Marks’ EP.

Ocean Sunset View – Bristol, England, United Kingdom. ‘You can take the kid of out of the Pop-Punk but you can’t take the Pop-Punk out of the kid‘ – A prospective and wannabe Maxim that I just created upon reading-up on Bristol Pop-Punk three-piece Ocean Sunset View. I like to...

The Take Down – ‘All Aboard The Sinking Ship’.

The Take Down – Ashford, England, United Kingdom. Cover photo credit: Matthew Sutton – Click Here. Ashford in Kent is the base of a Pop-Punk band by the name of The Take Down. A band with a penchant for the past and the indispensable household names that made the genre. Alkaline Trio?...

Voice Of Addiction and ‘The Lost Art Of Empathy’.

Voice Of Addiction – Chicago, Illinois, USA. The latest album from Chicago political Punks Voice Of Addiction is a frustrated album by a band that have been in the Punk game for quite some time. The Lost Art Of Empathy is the band’s second full-length and if fast, abrasive yet melodic Punk...