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NOFX 7″ of the Month Club Returns!

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NOFX are back with the second installment of their legendary 7” of the Month Club. Get ready to get your mitts on brand new NOFX songs that no one else has heard before! As you may have picked up via the NOFX socials, they’ve been recording with the legend, Bill Stevenson (uh, Descendents), and have racked up a massive amount of material. While they continue to tinker away, you will be treated to a preview of what may or may not land on their new album. We’re not even sure what songs they’ll give us; but we do know the club will feature alternate/demo versions of the recordings. Each 7” will be pressed on colored vinyl and will ship two at a time to help ease shipping costs, especially for our friends overseas!

As for the art, once again, they’re relying on you, their loyal followers, to provide the cover art. So, dust off those crayons and get to work! The 12 winning artists will receive a free subscription to the club…not to mention bragging rights to their friends. The details for artwork submissions can be found here!

Now that you are all caught up, watch Fat Mike do a more entertaining, less detail-oriented job of explaining the 7″ of the Month Club below, and then order yours today!

(record review)Reel Big Fish-Life sucks…Let´s Dance

Reel Big Fish, Californian ska melodic punk legends have released their first full length studio album in 6 years. I am glad that I was able to listen and review the record for our zine.

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Formed in the 1990-ies as one of the many Californian bands that came out at that time, they differed from the others with their ferocious live shows, excellent blend of melodic punk, ska and reggae and persistence and hard work. Now, almost 25 years later, led by original lead singer and song writer Aaron Barrett the guys released this, new album.

The album contains 14 songs of melody, great fun, anthemic choruses, catchy verses and above all fun. I love listening every second of this record. From the more straight reggae ska songs like I´d Rather Get It Wrong accross playful Walter´s Highlife to the mighty enjoyable title track, this record just brought smile upon my tired face and made me forget all the troubles for a while making me dream of Summer, festivals, my friends, beer and dancing in the warm Sun. I hate winter. This record is making it easier during winter, and then when Summer comes it will serve as a perfect soundtrack to sunny punk days.

8,5/10

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(news)Southern California Punk Legends TSOL cover Amerie’s “1 Thing” and launch pre-sale of the 12” single on Limited Edition Colored Vinyl via Hardline Entertainment

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Photo by Jason Cook

The vinyl will be available in transparent red, white or blue and will have a black and white silk-screened American flag on the reverse side. This is limited to 150 units of each color. Records ship late March.

The record is now available for pre-sale via the Hardline Entertainment web store at https://hardlineent.com/product-tag/1-thing/.

“I like go-go music and soul and anything that really moves. I first heard Amerie’s “1 Thing” in 2005, when it was released. Fucking infectious man, the way that groove keeps rolling, and she’s such a great vocalist. The lyrics were your basic relationship trip but then it hit me, this isn’t just a song about some dude, these lyrics read like a song to a system or a government that’d been up to no good. When she sang, “memories keep ringing bells” I was thinking of the state of our union today, the turmoil in our society, and where we’d been before—I was musing on our involvement in the Middle East, Latin America, Vietnam. I was thinking about the dirty deeds that this nation had been up to and then she sang, “why don’t you just admit it” and I realized that no one in power, not in this country, was ever gonna admit that we were wrong.”

-Jack Grisham

About T.S.O.L.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.S.O.L.

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