Wicked Bears – Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Salt Lake City isn’t somewhere I would normally associate with playful 90’s Punk music but I do believe Hidden Home Records exports Wicked Bears may have proved me wrong. The classically-toned Pop-Punk three-piece could easily be compared to the likes of Dead...
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?...
The Crash Mats – Oldham, England, United Kingdom. For our previous work on the band – Click Here. The Crash Mats are from Oldham and they play Ska-infused Punk. The band also don’t take themselves seriously, at all in fact. Strong English Punk-Rock merges with old-school Ska, Hardcore Punk and general abandon...
The Mental Code – Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Force Fed is the second release from another one of contemporary Punks’ Ramones enthusiasts, Phoenix, Arizona three-piece – The Mental Code. From start to finish you are indeed force fed a very unashamedly basic, endearing and not remotely serious blend of “ramonescore” that touches...
LATTE+ – Empoli, Italy. For our previous work on the band – Click Here. One thing I came to find with LATTE+ is their incredulous emulation of the Ramones. They know, we know, every Tom, Dick and Punk Rocker knows its been done before. The band are well aware, well aware of...
The Scutches – Long Island, NewYork, USA. The Scutches are very much underground veterans hailing from Long Island, New York. 2017 has been somewhat of a reawakening for the band in many respects, as although it’s now been three years since they have released studio material, the band have now...
Groezrock Festival – Meerhout, Belgium. Summoning some of the best in new, contemporary and veteran Punk, Pop-Punk, Hardcore, and Metal (among others) that this planet has to offer, 2015’s festival went off with a bang despite starting off with somewhat soggy beginnings. If you were at the festival and putting...
Time to try something a bit different – a playlist that does it’s best to help, analyse and fight the working week. You may find something you like. The playlist is embedded at the bottom, so you don’t have to expend any extra energy locating it. Whether you love/like/tolerate/hate or show a level if...