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Reviews, Various

(record review)Coming Out Swinging-Step Aside(WTF Records)

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Coming Out Swinging

Coming Out Swinging are working class, no bullshit, no holds barred hardcore punk band with members from New York and Connecticut area. I listened and reviewed for our zine their new record out with WTF Records.

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What immediately comes to mind when listening to this record is how old school sounding the music of this band is. I love it. Sounds like all that European and NYHC bands that I loved and grew up listening in the 1990-ies. The record contains 8 songs of dirty, maybe sometimes rock n roll sounding hardcore punk(F.M.L.), that old school hardcore anthemic riff, heard for thousandth time, but still gives you goosebumps(You Lose), lyrics bringing tears to life missing fallen bros and sisters(Forever-my personal favorite), dangerous moshing(Stand Up And Fight), Madball-esque songs(For You), street/oi(House Of Pain) and humour(Too Drunk To Bbq), has holding your pumping fist in the air all throughout the record. The singer sounds somehow to me like Dwid from Integrity circa Systems Overload era, which is awesome. The lyrics are usual hardcore themes, a bit clicheed, but they still turn the old spark in my heart into burning flames hehe. This is a great old school sounding hardcore record.

8,5/10

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Dead Pollys present “Summer of Punk / Sweden 2019” Tour with The Vibrators!

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Dead Pollys from Stockholm have invited the legends The Vibrators for a common summer tour, “Summer of Punk / Sweden 2019”. The tour starts in Stockholm on June 27th and ends in Linköping July 6th. Six dates are ready at the time of writing. The Vibrators are known for the song “Baby Baby” and their first gig was as support to The Stranglers. They have also played with both Sex Pistols and Iggy Pop. Dead Pollys have members from bands like Sighstens Grannar and Sir Reg. In 2015, Dead Pollys toured the USA with Dave Smalley and his band Down By Law. In February 2019 they released the album “Strummerland” via Too Loud Records.
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(record review)MILLENCOLIN-SOS(Epitaph)

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Millencolin was one of the most important bands to the kids in our scene, my hometown and the region here in the 90-ies. I am very happy that they are still around and they are still up and kicking with the brand new album which I reviewed for this zine.

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Its been a couple of years since the last one, so I didn´t know what to expect with the new music. Millencolin are for me one of those bands that are better sounding on the albums than live, so I love their albums very much, but I don´t like their shows so much. The new album contains 12 nice songs of melodic 90-ies punkrock which takes me back to the time when I was a kid and all I wanted was to rock and hang out with my brothers and sisters. 25 years have passed, but I am still that kid in my heart. When the first single, the title song came out, I had the chorus of that song immediately in my ear and hummed it all day long and still do now. There is the quartet of awesome great songs on this record being the title song, Carry On, Nothing(my personal favorite), and Sour Days which are true punkrock anthems. The rest of the material is not so good as those mentioned above, but enough to make this a good album, one of those that grows better and better to your heart every listening. If you love your punkrock fast, without complicating, anthemic, grab this new album by this Swedish legends.

8/10

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