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(news)REAL TALK Debuts Video For Title Track Off Upcoming ‘Arrivals’ EP

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East Coast pop-punk act Real Talk is debuting a new music video for the title track off their forthcoming EP ‘Arrivals.’

View the video here: https://youtu.be/W8j9Q7ln3Eg.

Frontman Joey Milewski says, “”Arrivals” is a track about the emotions that come with a loss of a loved one. It’s about how sadness leads to reflection and how that person sticks with you in your day to day moving forward. It’s a simple catchy love song that is meant to be listened loud”

The single is also now available to stream on all digital outlets at: http://hyperurl.co/RealTalk_Arrivals.

Real Talk recently signed to LA-based Anchor Eighty Four Records. Watch for the new EP coming soon!

Upcoming show:

NOV 17 The Rough Draft- Hamden, CT (w/ Say What You Will/In Good Nature/ Sunday Morning)

Follow Real Talk on Social Media:

https://www.facebook.com/realtalkrock

http://instagram.com/realtalkrock

http://twitter.com/realtalkrock

Follow Anchor Eighty-Four on Social Media:

http://www.anchoreightyfour.com

http://facebook.com/anchoreightyfour

http://anchoreightyfourrecords.limitedrun.com/

http://instagram.com/anchoreightyfour

http://twitter.com/anchoreighty4

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(record review)WE ARE THE UNION-Self Care

We Are The Union just released their fourth full length album and I listened and reviewed it for this zine.

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These guys are from Detroit, Michigan area and they have been around for a while, just launching their fourth full length record out.

The record contains 12 songs. The music is melodic punkrock with skapunk, pop punk and skatepunk parts in the song structures. From the skatepunk fast opening of Post-Ironic Sinkhole this band show us the listeners all the richness of their music style. A Better Home is a ska reggae punkrock anthem filled with brass instruments, punk aggressiveness and melody.

One of the best songs on the album for me is My Death, half a minute acoustic miniature, short but sweet, followed by The Way It Was, full blooded punkrock hymn, when I listen to this song it brings me back under Summer starry sky, having a blast with my friends and enjoying punkrock freedom! There is a guest performance on The Long Way by none other than Stacy Dee of Bad Cop/Bad Cop and she fit in with her voice nicely in this song. Not to discover just everything, you will have to listen to this album and check the other songs and discover your favorites for yourselves. All I can tell you that I had a blast listening to this one!

8,5/10

Links:

Follow the band on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/wearetheunion

Bandcamp:

https://wearetheunion.bandcamp.com/album/self-care

 

 

(record review)VANILLA POD-Goodbye My Love(Horn & Hoof Records)

Vanilla Pod released their swan song, their final record and it is an e.p. Goodbye My Love through Horn & Hoof Records.

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Norfolk, UK legends Vanilla Pod are calling it quits and their final record is an excellent melodic punkrock hardcore release comprised of four songs. The music this band plays, for those who don˙t know is faster paced, melodic punk hardcore with a lot of great melodies, cutting guitar riffs, memorable hooks, harmonic backing vocals and choruses just made for singing along and pumping your punkrock defiant fist in the air hehe. For me, the absolutely best song on this record, there is no doubt is Waster. This record is a nice ending to a great era and we can only thank this band for all the memories, all the great music and I am only sorry that I was not able to see them perform live. But, who knows? Life is strange, maybe one day hehe.

8/10

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/vanillapodrock/

https://www.facebook.com/hornandhoofrecords/

https://hornhoofrecords.bandcamp.com/