Germany´s The Baseballs are back with new album. Although I am not usually an avid fan of cover bands there are couple of exceptions from that rule. The Baseballs are one of them. Yes, they play covers of famous hits but they do it in doo wop and rockabilly version, so melodic and sooo good. Vocals are phenomenal and this music, in this renditions takes you back in time to the times when you wore a knife in your boot and were ready to fight with another guys for your favorite rock music. There are fourteen songs on this album, they are all fantastic, but my personal favorites are Rock Me Amadeus, Forever Young, Jump and Paradise City. Awesome new album!
In the year with no gigs The Interrupters decided to release a live album to remind us all how we miss gigs and energy, singing along and smiling enjoying great company and great music. This band is huge, delivering their melodic ska punk music with style, energy, great songwriting and anthemic songs topped with Aimee Interrupter´s awesome voice making her one of the best singers in the scene, also harmonic back vocals and musicianship of the Bivona brothers. There are ten songs on this one with all crown interaction and singing along. Setlist is superb with my personal favorites By My Side, Take Back The Power, Title Holder, Gave You Everything and all others being there. This is such great record.
Here is the split release by Croatian hardcore punk band .upset and 8082 from Austria. .upset are in no way strangers to the pages of this zine, because Zabok´s finest were already featured here and this time they offer two songs of street punk influenced hardcore with lyrics about friendship, betrayal, disappointment and hope. Thank You is my personal favorite and Fuck You is a bit faster yet also total hardcore anthem. 8082 offer two songs on their side of this e.p. They also play old school hardcore mixed with couple of new school parts in song structures, I can hear a mixture of eighties and nineties influenced hardcore in their songs. Lyrics are about surviving in this world and literally catching breath and also about with Day by Day being my personal favorite besides Catch a Breath. Great release by two great bands.
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