Tag Archives: hardcore punk

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

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

Get the album here: https://bridge9.bandcamp.com/album/wasted-time

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(record review)UKRATKO ŠTEF-Album

Serbia has excellent underground punk hardcore scene and Ukratko Štef(eng.Briefly Steve) is one of the bands that recently released their new studio record. I listened to it and reviewed it for this webzine.

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This band plays an energetic hardcore punk with much streetpunk influences in the song structures and also some ska parts. The songs are mainly fast paced and just made for pogo and slamming at the live gigs. The record contains 14 songs two of them being Bouncing Souls and Specials/Snuff covers. All of the lyrics are in Serbian language and they cover the usual themes that such bands cover being love disappointments, friendship and the loss of friendship, some politics anti imperialist and anti multinationals themes and similar. I love the choruses and the atmosphere this band provides in the songs. The songs are real street hardcore punk anthems and I am just a sucker for such songs and just love the bands that play such music. I would love to see this band play live because I am sure that this material sounds even better and more awesome live. Top songs for me are Moj Grad(eng.My City) and Sećanje(eng.Rememberance).

9/10

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(news-punk)Hit The Switch (formerly Nitro Records) Release Album Teaser; New LP ‘Entropic’ out Sept. 25 on Bird Attack Records

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Hit The Switch (formerly on Nitro Records) New Full Length: “Entropic” available Sept 25, 2018 on Bird Attack Records!

Here is a new album teaser for you to drool on:

Stay Tuned for pre-sale dates. Coming Soon…

Hit the Switch is a Southern California melodic, thrash, punk band formed in 2003 by Matt Hawks and Jerry Fenn. The band signed to Nitro Records and released “Domestic Tranquillity And Social Justice” in 2006. With multiple tours in the U.S. and Europe, and a self-released full-length titled “Observing Infinities” in 2009, the band went on to release a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Welcome To The Machine” and single track “Retroactive” in 2011. After a 7 year stretch, the band have returned with “Entropic” to be released on Bird Attack Records September 25th, 2018 on digital/vinyl.

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https://birdattackrecords.bandcamp.com/

www.facebook.com/hittheswitch.music/

Check out Hit The Switch’s back catalog on:

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/5sBiFAOG2grTkKxbvafat5

Apple Music https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/hit-the-switch/151975099