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(news) MUCH THE SAME – Everything Is Fine new studio album

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Reunited in 2015 after an 8 year hiatus, Chicago’s MUCH THE SAME continues carrying the torch of aggressive, melodic skate punk. Originally formed in 1999, the band quickly gained popularity in the Chicago punk scene, and eventually broke into national and international awareness with their ‘Quitters Never Win’ album in 2003 (A-F Records) and ‘Survive’ in 2006 (Nitro Records). Though the band broke up in 2007, word of mouth continued to grow their fanbase throughout the world. Much The Same now celebrates its 20-year anniversary and guitarist Dan O’Gorman’s recent victory over cancer by releasing their third full-length album, ‘Everything is Fine’.
When asked about the new album frontman Chris McGrath replied “Thirteen years have passed since we released Survive and we are very different people than we were back then. Everything is Fine is definitely a lyrically darker album, but musically more upbeat. It is a progression in our sound and our songwriting, and we experimented a little bit more than we have before, but it is still every bit a Much The Same record: fast, melodic punk rock with choruses that won’t leave your head and lyrics about real life.  There was no grand plan in writing this album, and no expectations of what might come of it, just a chronicling of a very difficult time in our lives and a celebration of the opportunity to play music together again.”

Pee Records will release ‘Everything Is Fine’ on CD and Limited Edition 12″ vinyl with alternate vinyl colours of the LP also available from  Thousand Island Records in US/Canada and Lockjaw Records in the UK. Pre-Orders will be available on  Pee Records webstore soon when they´ll also be releasing the first single from the album!

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(gig report) ATHEIST RAP(Novi Sad)/FAJRUNT(Varaždin)-19.04.2019.-PROSTOR ČAKOVEC

After couple of weeks, another great punkrock show happened in Klub Prostor Cezam in our hometown. None other than punkrock legends Atheist Rap from Novi Sad, Serbia visited us to celebrate their 30th birthday with a special set. They were supported by Fajrunt from Varaždin.

When I came to the yard in front of the club around eight in the evening, the situation didn´t look promising. The soundchecks were just over and there were only couple of people from the bands and the people involved with the jobs in and around the club and I was hoping that the people will come to the show although it is Friday and not Saturday night. Fortunately, people started to arrive and do all the punkrock folklore in front of the gig, like drinking, chatting happily and some of them were already happy and singing hahaha. The gig started right on time as scheduled at 22 hrs Fajrunt started their set in front of the empty club, but in two or three songs, Prostor filled with enough people to cheer and sing along with this excellent melodic punkrock trio from Varaždin.

Fajrunt played their set made of songs from both of their studio albums, and they sounded powerful and energetic delivering their version of melodic punkrock, sometimes fast, sometimes more emotive and slower coupled with great dual vocals provided by guitarist Mimi and the bass player Vujec. Besides their stuff, Fajrunt played a couple of covers by Mikrofonija and Kud Idijoti. I consider myself a great fan of this band and I really enjoy their gigs not matter how much times I saw them play live. The only thing their set lacked was the title song from the last album Predstava which is one of my favorites hehe, but that doesn´t matter, the show was great. Too bad many kids rather chose to stay in front and wait for the headliner.

Atheist Rap from Novi Sad, Serbia, started their set right on time about 11 in the evening providing almost two hours of happiness for all the fans who came there. Much respect to the band for keeping it alive and true for 30 years and being really nice and down to earth fellows who are always fun to see and listen to playing live. From the first song the madness in front of the stage started, with kids being all over the place, singing along with the band, dancing, pogoing, stagediving and the band really appreciated and gave their best back to the kids and everyone had smiles of joy on their faces. Last time I saw Atheist Rap was in 2017.here in our town headlining 3FF open air festival and since then they are back to having one guitar player with Radule delivering all the guitar work. This time their set included all the well known hits from the past, also some crowd favorites that were not played live for a long time, also couple of songs from their still actual last studio album, so none of the kids in the crowd can not say that they are dissatisfied with the setlist hehe. After the gig the party continued long in the night.

This was a warm up for 3FF 2019.edition and I am looking forward to this year´s festival edition, so stay tuned on this page for more news regarding that in the coming weeks!

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