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(record review)PENNYWISE-“Never gonna die”(Epitaph Records)

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Epitaph Records is back with mighty punk records. Last year´s Propagandhi record still resonates in my ears and now the long wait is over, here is the new Pennywise album! I loved every second of this album and now read in this zine the review and find out why!

2018 - Never Gonna Die

This record contains 14 new songs, some of which we already heard as singles before the record hit this world with a bang. The title track is by far one of the best Penny songs that I have heard since “Full Circle” which was for me the best Pennywise record ever! The energy of the title track combined with fast pace and Jim´s singing topped with great melody just rules. “Keep moving on” is an anthem about having strength and survive the odds and I just wanted to scream with energy while listening to this little fucker. “Live while you can” most of us know and have already heard as a lyric video single prior to the release of the record. This is by far also one of the best Pennywise songs ever and the absolute highlight of this record. One of those songs you just wished you wrote. “We set fire” is the song with fast pace ready to set the fires of the rebellion in us the listeners. I love the production of the record and the energy I feel while listening and it always makes my day as I listened it already dozen times. “She said” is also one of the singles from the record and this song is very special to me because of the lyrics about passing away of someone you care about which happened to me too many times. Another highlight of the record for me is definitely “Can´t be ignored”, the song I have on repeat almost twenty times in a row! “All the ways u can die” is “Date with destiny” for the 21st century. You will notice that I didn´t mention all of the songs and that I did intentionally because you MUST get this album and listen everything and I just don´t want to spoil some gems. Lyrically strong, musically superb, this record is one of the strongest, if not THE strongest record of the year!

10/10

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Punk Rock Dad by Jim Lindberg-The book for all those punkrockers who are Dads and for all those who are not!

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Jim Lindberg is best known as the singer for one of the best American punk hardcore bands from California, namely Pennywise. Jim has been shouting on stages throughout the world for three decades now and I saw him performing live with Pennywise a couple of months ago in Slovenia, at Punk Rock Holiday festival in Tolmin and they were awesome.

I also saw the movie The Other F Word with Jim as some kind of lead character in the documentary about Dads in punkrock bands and how they cope with the stress of constant touring with the band and being away from home for long not seeing their loved ones. The movie finished kinda sad for me as a fan of Pennywise with Jim leaving the band to spend more time with his family.

Fortunately, Jim returned to the band and we can enjoy Pennywise again, but I had absolutely no idea that he published a book simply called Punk Rock Dad. It took some time, but I finally put my hands and eyes on the book and read it.

First to mention, I have read the book in less than three days, it is written so beautifully that words and sentences just flow around you and then you are sad because you realized that you already finished it. Second, book is written in so much good spirit and humour that I caught myself laughing aloud in the morning while I was reading the book and enjoying my first morning coffee. Pennywise as a band and the events that transpire during tours is mentioned very little in this book, it is mainly concentrated on Jim and his tries to come to terms being a Dad, then dealing with all the sweet troubles that the first baby brings in the house and life. Jim has three daughters and beileve me, you will also laugh loud while reading the funny situations and things that happened to him while watching over kids, changing diapers, cleaning puke from bathroom tiles and so on…

Having no kids, I could not put myself in the situations Jim was, but as I said all of us who dont have kids can easily read this book. If I had to describe it in one sentence, the book is half humorous handbook in a fanzine punk way, half comedy movie.