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(record review)The Mighty Mighty Bosstones-“While We´re At It”(Big Rig)

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The new studio album of Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the legendary ska core band is upon us! I listened and reviewed the record for this webzine!

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The legendary purveyors of ska core, a mixture of ska, punkrock and hardcore are now celebrating their 35 years anniversary.  This brand new album contains 14 songs of melodic skacore at it´s best. The record is diverse in mood and vibe, from the more energetic “Green Bay, Wisconsin” to the more calm punkrock vibe of “The Constant”. One of my personal favorites of this record is “Wonderful Day For The Race” being the true anthem just made for live singing along and dancing to the ska punk beat. Reggae beat of “Unified” is an anthem of unity and the scene that we all love so much. “Closer to Nowhere” is a classic ska song for the 21st century and I would love to hear this song on some open air festival on the warm Summer evening dancing with my beloved to this awesome ska rythm. “Walked Like a Ghost” is for me the most emotional song on the record with the lyrics that totally touched my heart. “In Honor Of” and “After the Music is Over” are the songs that will make your day and put a smile on your tired face. Good album.

7,5/10

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(record review)FREDAG DEN 13:E-“Dystopisk Utsikt”(EveryDayHate)

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Time for some crust punk hardcore to grace the pages of this zine. Namely, Fredag den 13:e, Swedish band from Gothenburg. This is their new album out on EveryDayHate and I listened and reviewed the record for this zine.

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The album contains 11 songs of melodic crusty punk hardcore with catchy melodic Gothenburg styled riffs, mixed with d-beat and dirty punk n roll influences. The melodic opener “Plagad av ljuset” only opens up towards more dirty punk n roll styled “1984”. The lyrics are in Swedish language and I don˙t understand what they are about. But the band speaks about waking up the conciousness and stepping and looking beyond the mirror, so it is alright. I usually easily get bored when listening to such records because crusty punk is not my cup of tea, but this one is good because its melodic and catchy in all this brutality, so it kinda reminds me of their countrymen Myteri who played in my hometown couple of years ago and I loved their set. So, if you are a fan of such hardcore punk, go get this record you won`t regret it! Top songs: “Salj mig licka” and “Ar du hora eller gud”.

7,5/10

Links: Bandcamp- https://everydayhate.bandcamp.com/album/edhfucks88-dystopisk-utsikt-12lp

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fredagden13e/

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(record review)UK SUBS-“Subversions”(Cleopatra Records)

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Legendary UK punks released their first ever cover album. Led by invincible punk icon vocalist Charlie Harper, along with longtime member Alvin Gibbs on bass, Jamie Oliver on drums and newcomer Steve Straughan on guitar, the guys kick ass and I listened and reviewed the record for this webzine.

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I must say that unlike my sister I never grew up on UK 77 style punkrock. Since I was a kid I was more into faster, hardcore stuff, so UK Subs always went under my radar. This album has 12 songs, all covers, from some of the more unusual like Ray Charles Via Humble Pie to Motorhead, David Bowie and Queens of the Stone Age, of course done in noisy and energetic punkrock style with Charlie˙s trademark vocals topping everything. Somehow, MC5 and The Stooges covers went the best for me and those are in my opinion the best songs on this album. I am not a fan of cover albums per se, but this one is an okay punkrock album and tribute to some of the artists that influenced this long time running punk icons!

7/10

Follow the band on Fb: https://www.facebook.com/UKSubs/