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(record review)BEACH RATS-“Wasted Time”(Bridge Nine Records)

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Beach Rats is a new band, kind of hardcore punk supergroup featuring Brian Baker of Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Bad Religion fame, Ari Katz from legends Lifetime plus The Bouncing Souls members and more. This is their debut record on Bridge Nine Records, it is old school hardcore punk made for 21st century.

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The record contains five songs and the music this band plays can be described as an amalgamation of all of the members˙past and present bands.  That means fast, sometimes nervous and energetic hardcore punk reminding me of Minor Threat, Circle Jerks being nervous and angry and Dag Nasty and Lifetime being at the same time melodic.

I must admit that I love every second of this record. This is simply played, with heart and soul and we need somehow those simpler, in your face nostalgic hardcore punk bands nowadays. My favorite track off this record is “Stay All Night” but all the others are awesome in their own way.  Get this record and see how the scene veterans do it with dynamite in their bones.

9/10

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(record review)FACE TO FACE-“Hold Fast”(Fat Wreck Chords)

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Face to Face is another in the list of punkrock bands that released an acoustic album. The album came out via Fat Wreck Chords and I listened to the album and reviewed it for this webzine.

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The album contains 10 songs of nice and acoustic melodic punkrock. The songs are quality stuff like we are used to from Trever Keith and his gang being in the scene since 1991. delivering melodic and energetic punkrock. I personally like this band but somehow they always missed my list of favorite bands. They were always somewhere around but never like hit me or made goosebumps on my skin. I saw them play live last year at Punk Rock Holiday and they were good, but their show was not one of the festival highlights for me. Nevertheless, this record has a couple of hitters like “Velocity” or almost country styled “Don˙t Turn Away”.  For me the best song on this record is the song that I love the most from Face to Face opus being “Disconnected”. Otherwise, this album didn`t have an impact on me, I dig acoustic punkrock but this one was just somehow passed me by and didn˙t hit me like some records do.

6/10

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(record review)The Adolescents-“Cropduster”(Concrete Jungle Records)

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As the years progress and pass us by, we are definitely not getting any younger. The time goes by, and some people that were our inspiration, our role models, the people whose music grabbed us by the balls and put us upon the scene, start to die. Steve Soto of The Adolescents and Agent Orange passed away recently. It is a great and sad loss for the punk hardcore community. But, Steve´s legacy lives on through his music and this is the new The Adolescents record out on Concrete Jungle Records that I listened and reviewed for this webzine.

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The new record contains 18 new songs of punkrock hardcore just like we are used to by these legendary band from California. The music of The Adolescents on this record is somehow the mirror image of their feelings towards the American politics and Trump spiced with angry punkrock underlayed with wonderful melodies beneath the punk ferocity. Also, there is a lot of emotional input in this record and it can be felt in the lyrics and music and throughout the vibe on this record that sometimes awakes a kind of punkrock nostalgia in me for example while listening to “Paradigm Bag Junkies” or “Alice on Wonderland”. I also love “Room 223” and the title track. This is an energetic and also emotional record, and for sure one of the best punk hardcore releases this year so far.

10/10

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