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Active member of alternative underground scene and culture since early 1990-ies. Underground is a way of life!
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Greg Rekus announces new 2019 tour dates, as well as a new album for 2020!

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With an acoustic guitar in his hands and a giant stomp box under his feet, Winnipeg’s GREG REKUS delivers his own unique brand of punk rock-infused folk music guaranteed to shake rafters, move floorboards, and get even the most stoic of concert-goers out of their seats.

Greg Rekus - Live Picture

Greg has just announced the release of a new album for 2020, as well as new tour dates for March / April 2019! All dates can be found on the official tour poster.

On this tour announcement, Rekus comments:

“It is a need for me to tour regularly! There are some artists who have had success and tour very little, if any at all. Some people just get lucky, but by far, the most successful artists, especially today, have got there from grinding it out on the road. Some people can’t stand it, but I love it! It makes me feel so free and alive. Time seems to move differently on the road also. You are meeting so many new people and places everyday…

I’m on the road approximately 6 or 7 months a year. It may seem like a lot, but it is usually only like 150 shows a year. Imagine you only worked 150 days a year! That’s more than half the year days off, so it’s actually pretty manageable.

After this tour, I’m going to stay home to start working on a new album. This new album is not far from where I left off with ‘Sibling Cities’, my last record, but kinda an upgrade. Stay tuned!”

Stream “Sibling Cities” on Bandcamp: https://greg-rekus.bandcamp.com/

Greg Rekus - Bigfoot Poster 2019

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(photo gig report)Mad Caddies return to Slovenia, this time at Cvetličarna, Ljubljana!

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After a great gig at last year´s Punk Rock Holiday, Mad Caddies returned to Europe, this time in Cvetličarna, Ljubljana, Slovenia. They are supported with Jon Gazi and Rude Tins.

Of course, our sister Irina was there to witness the great gig of one of her favorite bands and also deliver in Kraykulla Webzine this fine photo gig report.

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W.A.B. shoots against the rock ‘n’ roll establishment

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W.A.B. comeback with a new music video. “…and kill the worms” feature a controversial cover with the recently deceased Keith Flint, Prodigy vocalist, and is accompanied by the manifesto “Kill the old rockers! Kill the worms”, where they attack a rotten scene that has lost its essence and doesn’t know how to renew itself.

There’s no future in rock ‘n’ roll. With the passage of time we see what it has become and make us want to vomit: old glories that lost their essence long time ago but they never left; others who come back to drag their old asses one more time; tribute bands everywhere… and in the middle of this cult to the past young people are begging to play live!
In the big gigs posters there is a small print which says: “If you are 20 years old, there’s no room for you here”. The new bands are small multifunctional entities that have to take on the role of band, label, booking, promotion, merchandising, producer, and I don’t know how many more things, to end up seeing how the outdated artists are still up there due to the name of their brand and other intricacies that have nothing to do with the essence of rock ‘n’ roll.
Do the current Metallica, Misfits, Discharge, Guns N Roses, Exploited, or Slayer represent anything like that? Or our nearest case, La Polla Records, that seem to be the next to join this geriatric parade. To us, they are only just rancid trying to emulate a past of rebellion that lost long time ago. Those rock dictators are still there after 40 years entrenched on their comfortable armchair, and we would like to remind our sleeping generation that the dictators must be smashed with the guns in hand.
Don’t kill imagination! If the past was better, it’s because now we insist on not living in the present. In the eighties, people didn’t say “the 60s were better”. NO! They said: “Let’s do better than them”. That’s attitude! That’s Rock n Roll!
The current world tells us that we should wait until we are 40 years old to say what we want, but we don’t want to wait. We are 20 years old and we have something to shout NOW!
IT’S TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, TO DECLARE WAR ON THE OLD GUARD. IT’S TIME TO KILL THE WORMS!