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(record review)NOFX-“Ribbed-Live in a dive”(Fat Wreck Chords)

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NOFX just released the new album in Live in a dive series. This time they played their legendary “Ribbed” album in it´s entirety.

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Many people think that this band somehow lost it˙s touch, lost inspiration and records one boring album after another boring album. Personally, I don´t think that this is true. I think that they still got that something that sets them apart from other bands of this style. They still got the mojo to have fun and at the same time play awesome music. Sometimes they don`t have their day, but we are all only humans are we? So, this legendary album is played live with standard NOFX trademark humour between the songs. Who loves songs like “Moron Brothers”, “Cheese/Where´s my slice” or “Together on the sand” and other legendary songs from “Ribbed” will love this album.

8/10

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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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