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International skatepunks Gibberish announce debut album /new single!

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Long distance skatepunk band, Gibberish, have just announced their debut album, Strangers. The announcement comes paired with a new single release, Sanctions, featuring Chris McGrath of Much The Same/Winning Streak fame.

To say that Gibberish is a superband is an understatement – the band members range from Japan to Italy to the USA, and contains members of Lamonta, Thousand Oaks, and Jet Market! Stay tuned for more announcements of other featured artists appearing on Strangers – due August 20th via Thousand Island Records (North America) and Disconnect Disconnect Records (UK/EU). Vinyl and CDs can be pre-ordered HERE.

Sanctions is streaming everywhere and can be found right HERE!

Gibberish saw light of day in 2015, launched by 2 Japanese skatepunk nerds Yuto and Tetsuya.

The band focuses on making 90′- 00’s influenced skatepunk songs through email chain with 2 American and Italian skatepunk geeks, Kyle Olson and Alex Gavazzi.

In October 2015, the debut single Milo was released via a compilation called “We Carry the Torch”, released by Torch of Hope Records, while July 2016 marked the release of their highly acclaimed first EP “Between Timid and Timbuktu”.

In April 2020 the band was on the lineup of Manchester Punk Fest for their first ever live show, but due to COVID-19, the festival was cancelled.

Gibberish is gearing up to release their debut LP Strangers in 2021, via Thousand Islands Records.

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Thousand Islands Records: Website

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Dutch melodic punk rockers Ink Bomb released new single!

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Dutch melodic punk band Ink Bomb releases their new single/video today: Dorothy Enters Technicolor (Bandcamp). In this feminist song not only the four band members themselves can be heard, but it also features the surprise guest vocals of Roos Centimane, known as vocalist for former punk-metal band Stark. The single is from Ink Bomb’s split release with No Breakfast Goodbye they’ll be releasing on June 18.


 Guitarist and producer Quirijn Foeken: “We asked Roos Centimane to contribute because we are fans of her raw shouting vocal style as we know it from her former band Stark. Once in the studio, she came up with a more sensitive vocal line as well. That one fit much better with the song than what we first thought of!”

Ink Bomb makes a feminist statement with Dorothy Enters Technicolor, clearly recognizable in phrases like “Glass ceilings will not last” and “The patriarchy a thing of the past”. To reinforce this theme, only women appear in the music video.
 Most of the women in the video either worked with the band or are close to the band in some other way. Bassist Arina Banga: “We shared the stage, they hosted our shows, we stayed with them, they made our artwork or they are a friend/partner. Moreover, for me it is special that band members from my former band Planet Eyelash also participated. With them I experienced my first band adventures.”

Dorothy Enters Technicolor is available on Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify and other streaming services.

Biography Ink Bomb
When the members of Dutch melodic punk rock band Ink Bomb stepped in their practice space for the first time in 2015, they never met before. Fast forward a few years later and the band toured multiple countries and released two EPs and their full-length debut album Fiction. When the pandemic hit the band menbers were forced to tap into their flexibility. They decided to write new material to release a split album with their friends of No Breakfast Goodbye. This split features all new material with the Ink Bomb trademark sound: fast, aggressive songs that might not always follow standard song structure, but always features great melodies with a healthy dose of melancholy. The band cannot wait to return to the stages in 2021!


* Releases: debut full-length Fiction (2019), EP Swim (2017), EP Invincible Summer (2016).* Tours in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom and Denmark.* Support slots: The Toy Dolls, SNFU, I Against I, Make War and Martha.* Five acoustic cover songs for different charities (yearly).

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These Fast Times release new single – Empty Cup!

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Montreal punk rock foursome These Fast Times have released a new single today titled Empty Cup. Available via the most popular digital platforms via Thousand Islands Records, the song is the first new material from the band since On The Other Side Of Fear, their debut album released in 2018.

Fans can find the new single right HERE.

The band is currently working on new material to come out later this year. Stay tuned as more details will soon be available.

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BIO:

These Fast Times are a four-piece punk-rock band formed from the ashes of multiple bad decisions, misspent youth and a unified-need to cause a major ruckus at any given time. Armed with the fuzziest of distorted guitars, relentless pounding drums, p-h-a-t bass-lines and a whole lot of screaming with a little bit of vocal-melody included – These Fast Times are continually finding ways to overwhelm, offend & entertain their audience through all of their five-senses.

The rotting-core of the band’s line-up currently includes Jeffrey Vuorela (Vocals, Guitar), Jason Bellafontaine (Bass, Vocals), Thomas Kolofsky (Lead Guitar) and Ryan Kennedy (Drums). Each member got started in the usual way…they got into music early-on in life etc. etc., started bands, ended bands and experienced all the hardships necessary to put a massive punk-chip on their shoulders. Officially combining their talents & stank of desperation together in 2015, These Fast Times have gone on to fill up the space in front of them with fans of true-punk and drain many a beer-can since.

Discovering quickly that they could stand each other’s personalities, energy and smell – These Fast Times shut themselves away in the studio and began to write, create & refine. Even the band-members were now able to vouch for their music as ‘not half-bad’ finally…and though perhaps reluctantly, pride in their dirty punk-rock sound began to take hold of these four from Montreal…

The results of the writing and recording session became the six new songs released by These Fast Times on their self-titled record released in February, 2016. Playing shows to support the album all throughout the year – you can expect These Fast Times ready to show up right to your own bloody front door if it means they can play another show before they all croak. Main reason being…somewhere along the lines, all four members of the band realized that the music they were making…as grimy and dirty as it might be…was music that NEEDED to be played…music that the people WANTED to hear.

Make no mistake – These Fast Times don’t put themselves through all the shit that comes along with being in a punk-rock band for their own enjoyment; no – it’s a far more selfless act. They do it for YOU. Come get some!

These Fast Times: Website | Facebook | Instagram

Thousand Islands Records: Website