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(review) TRASHED AMBULANCE-Shorthanded(Thousand Islands Records)

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Remember Trashed Ambulance from Canada? A while ago we did a review of their record here and an interview with the guys. Now, they have a new release with Thousand Islands Records and I listened and reviewed the record for our zine.

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The new record is released also on limited cassette edition so be fast to get it. It contains 6 beautiful melodic punkrock songs, what pleases the most that it sounds more of 90-ies melodic skatepunk, not the metalic technical skatepunk played by most of the newer bands these days, not that I don´t love technical skatepunk, but I prefer this style. The melodies are fine, I love the nice interplay between main vocals and backing vocal harmonies and the mixture of personal serious stuff and humour in the lyrics of the songs. The songs that I somehow dig the most are Open Road, Buy In(excellent song about the scene with super lyrics) and Trash Queen. If you are into honest, melodic, heartwarming punkrock this one is yours and you only need to get it.

8/10

https://thousandislandsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shorthanded

 

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(review) Tommy And June-Tommy And June(Fat Wreck Chords)

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Tommy and June are two guys, two musicians, which just released their record with Fat Wreck Chords and I listened and reviewed it for our zine.

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The record was produced and released by Fat Mike of Nofx, the owner of Fat, who met the guys while touring with his band and thought that they deserve to be heard and he was right. Tommy is an Israeli musician and June is Colombian Iranian and this music, this record is a proof that music really has no boundaries and no borders. The music of Tommy And June is acoustic, melancholic melodic punkrock with a lot of sadness, lot of personal demons and lyrics that I can sing along, cry along, smile and day dream along. Tommy sings the main vocals and he has an awesome singing melodic voice. June sings harmonies and their voices interplay fantastic. What I love about this record is that the songs are not boring, they are uptempo, lovely and take the listener to some other place on a listening journey. My favorites on this record are Lonely Train, Ghost of Paris, Better Life Story. Those are just some, but all of the songs are just super. Give this one a spin or two and you will se why I love it so much!

9/10

 

 

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(review) LOST LOVE -Glenn Spaghetti Legs(Uncle M Music)

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Lost Love are currently on their way for their European tour. For this tour, this Montreal based band released a new e.p. with Uncle M Music and I listened and reviewed their record for our zine.

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The new e.p. is consisting of two songs which are b-sides from their great ”Good Luck Rassco”, their last album released in May 2018 on Stomp Records and Guerilla Asso. The cover artwork is inspired by that famous video when Danzig gets his ass kicked, in fact punched by that other big dude. The title song is a nice melodic anthem but the other song, called Ontarien Dermande somehow fits better to my ear and I love it. This is a nice little e.p. and I can´t wait for the new full length, also catch these guys live somewhere on their European tour, the dates are below!

8/10

Lost Love will be on tour in Europe this summer from July 19th to August 4th.

July 19 – Nevers, FR @ Bar le Continental *
July 20 – Roppeviller, FR @ Rop’n’Roll Festival *
July 21 – Bole, CH @ S16eXX | ParaBôle Festival 2019 *
July 22 – Paris, FR @ Petit Bain w/ Sport
July 23 – Lille, FR @ Bobble Café
July 24 – Leuven, BE @ Rock Café Leuven
July 25 – Rotterdam, NL @ V11
July 26 – Saint-Leger, BE @ Le Caf’ Conc’
July 27 – Munich, DE @ Free&Easy Festival
July 28 – Hamburg, DE @ Frau Hedi
July 29 – Berlin, DE @ Franken
July 30 – Hanover, DE @ Monster Records
July 31 – Nuremberg, DE @ Kantine w/ D.O.A.
August 1 – Namur @ Petit Bitu
August 2 – Angers, FR @ Le Héron Carré – Guinguette angevine *
August 3 – La Rochelle, FR @ Le Bathyscaphe La Rochelle *
August 4 – Albi, FR @ Xtreme FEST *

*w/ Guerilla Poubelle

 

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