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(news)No Fun At All’s North American Tour is less than a month away! It’s been over 20 years since NFAA has toured the USA!

August 18, 2018 vladkraykulla Leave a comment

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Sep 7 Quebec City QC – Envol et Macadam (Festival)

Sep 8 Brooklyn NY – Saint Vitus Bar w/ The Drowns

Sep 9 Philadelphia PA – The Boot and Saddle Club w/ The Drowns

Sep 10 Washington DC – DC9 Nightclub w/ The Drowns

Sep 11 Cambridge MA – Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub w/ The Drowns

Sep 13 Toronto ON – Lee’s Palace w/ The Drowns

Sep 14 Ottawa ON – The 27 Club Ottawa w/ The Drowns

Sep 15 Sainte-Therese QC – Music 4 Cancer (Festival)

Sep 19 Santa Cruz CA – The Crepe Place w Sederra & Give You Nothing

Sep 20 Sacramento CA – The Press Club w/ Sederra

Sep 21 San Francisco CA – Great American Music Hall w/ Lagwagon, @Western Addiction & A Vulture Wake

Sep 22 Los Angeles CA – El Rey w/ Lagwagon, Western Addiction & A Vulture Wake

Sep 23 Santa Ana CA – The Observatory Orange County w/ Lagwagon, Western Addiction & A Vulture Wake

Sep 24 San Diego CA – Soda Bar w/ Sederra & CHASER

Sep 25 Phoenix AZ – The Rebel Lounge w/ Sederra

Sep 29 Mexico City MX – OFF Limits (Festival)

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Formed in 1991, Sweden’s No Fun At All quickly carved out their own brand of fast, melodic hardcore-punk with their debut EP Vision (1993) and the subsequent album No Straight Angles (1994). Establishing a sound of their own and, alongside contemporaries Millencolin and Satanic Surfers, themselves as one of the biggest Swedish acts of the 90’s skatepunk scene.

The band’s new album, Grit, recorded and produced by Millencolin’s Mathias Farm in November, along with a bunch of well-received European shows this past summer, shows there are no signs of slowing down for No Fun At All.

Since Lowrider (2008) they’ve done festivals and club shows in Europe, South America 3 times, Australia 2 times, Japan and Canada. In the fall of 2016, Christer Mähl (ex. Johansson) and Stefan Neuman announced to the rest of the band that they intended to quit the band. They did a tour of Chile and Brazil in the spring of 2017 as a goodbye tour with them. Now solidified, new members Stefan Bratt (Atlas Losing Grip) & Fredrik Eriksson bring a new level of ripping to the punk veterans.

Ingemar Jansson ¬ Vocals | Stefan Bratt ¬ Bass | Frederik Eriksson ¬ Guitar | Kjell Ramstedt ¬ Drums | Mikael Danielsson ¬ Guitar

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Reviews, Various

(record review)The Shorts-Bunker Money(Thousand Islands Records)

August 14, 2018 vladkraykulla Leave a comment

Canadian label Thousand Islands Records, although small, continues to release excellent records by the awesome bands. This time, we listened and reviewed the new record by the Australian punk band The Shorts. Read the review!

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The record contains 9 songs of melodic punk with hardcore and skatepunk influences. This record is very diverse. There are some reggae influences in “Lenny the Shark”. My personal favorites on the record are “I don´t know why I do this anymore” being superb fast skatepunk anthem with the lyrics I can relate to, the other being “Wall Street” with the unusual but fine melody in the chorus and mid paced rythm. I also love the fast punkrock hymn “Silo”. This record is another proof that Australian punkrock/hardcore scene never ceases to amaze.

8/10