I listened to the debut e.p. by THE LONGSHOT couple of weeks ago and I wasn´t impressed much with what I heard.
Now it is time for their debut full length album and I listened to it and reviewed it for this webzine. For those of you who don´t know it yet, The Longshot is the new band fronted by Billie Joe Armstrong, known as frontman of some little pop punk band called Green Day. Sounds familiar, eh? Joke. The album contains eleven songs of melodic punkrock bordering with a lot of poppier side of punkrock. Don´t get me wrong, the songs are pure quality and production wise the album sounds brilliant, but somehow it just didn´t work with me upon neither first nor second listening. It was just too mellow and too weak songs to like it. The last Green Day record was much stronger compared to this material, I know those are not the same bands and all that, but the songs on this album are just somehow too similar one to another. There are couple of okay tracks like for example “Kill your friends” or “Goodbye to romance” but just not enough compared to the boring ones. If you are a fan of Green Day or Billie Joe´s work you´ll dig this one. If not, do not bother.
I waited for a long time to watch this documentary since it came out, but I finally did it and I was not disappointed.
Fat Wreck Chords is one of my all time favourite, if not the favourite record label in the world. Founded in 1991.by Nofx bassist/singer Fat Mike and his now ex wife Erin, this label continues to be an epitome what melodic punk hardcore is all about. The movie describes the begginings with early bands signed, like Lagwagon, No Use For A Name, Propagandhi, Strung Out…and continues until these days with third or fourth generation of Fat bands like The Bombpops, Bad Cop/Bad Cop for example. Through the stories narrated by the band members, Fat Mike, Erin we now know how the Fat sound started to become reality. I loved the Tony Sly part and the interesting part about Propagandhi pissing off Fat Mike when they targeted him in their lyrics because of the disappointment with Fat Mike´s involvement in Punkvoters.com, I won´t say movement, rather initiative when they tried to vote the lesser of two evils to become the next U.S.president. But, what is most important throughout all these 25 years of Fat, the music continues its legacy and every year new and new legions of punk kids discover the beauty of punk scene through Fat Wreck Chords bands that were there and that they are here now. I also owe a great much of my punk upbringings to Fat Mike and Erin and their vision and I will be forever greatfull to them for discovering through their label some of the bands and records that became my all time favourites. Get and watch this one!
This is Core is proud to Present 1957, new single from Sunset Radio.
“1957” is the first extract from Sunset Radio upcoming album. The song shifts the band’s playing from 90’s punk rock to a more mature sound, closer to modern pop punk.
“The song’s about the importance of friendships, especially in dark and unhappy moments” says guitarist Matteo Rossi.
The video for the new single was shoot in Ravenna, the band’s hometown, and will come out on may 17th for Italian label “This is Core” and Japanese Far Channel Records.
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