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(review) DONOTS – ‘Heut ist ein guter Tag’

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German punk rockers DONOTS released new full length album and it contains fifteen songs. There was a term in the nineties, I think it is still in use called Deutschpunk being all those German pop punk/melodic punk bands with specific style and German lyrics. DONOTS are veterans of the scene and this album brings melodic punk rock with songs in German lyrics and mainly mid tempo emotional punk rock with beautiful vocals and I always say, German language is such great language for punk being it angry hardcore punk or more melodic punk rock. There is occasional excursion into more faster hardcore skate punk waters like with ‘1.21. Gigawatt’ or reggae with one of my favorites ‘Hunde los’. There are also pop punk influences like in ‘Traurige Roboter’ and more street punk sing along choruses like ‘Apokalypse Stehplatz Innenraum’ and back to hardcore punk with ‘Es tut nur weh, wenn ich lache’. I saw this band one year playing Punk Rock Holiday and their show was a blast, so I would love to check them out in some club show, I believe that would be awesome. In the meantime, check out this album. Good one.

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(review) Late Show – ‘Late Show’

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Late Show are hailing from Seattle and this is their new EP containing four songs. The music of Late Show can be described as a kind of mixture between noisy and raw garage punk rock with more melodic punk. ‘Cold Beer, White Pills’ is your typical raw garage punk song with some grungy influences in couple of song parts, especially in guitar riffing. ‘Pizza, Beaches & Weed’ is what I said above, keeping raw garage punk touch but also having more melodic vocal lines and sing along chorus so stupid that you catch yourself singing along to it. ‘Watchin’ You’ has more dirty rock ‘n roll overtones and I would love so much if that guitar was a bit more distorted and having more explosive and buzzing sound than that. This record earns more to seventies punk rock than more contemporary punk that is being played. ‘College Education’ is the weirdest song on the record and at times reminded me of Fugazi and similar bands, but maybe it is only me. This EP was somehow not my cup of tea, so to say, with me being fan of more melodic and faster stuff.

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(news – punk rock) Versus The World released new single from the forthcoming new album!

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‘Roadsick/Roadsick’, the first single from Versus The World‘s new album, is released today. The Californian post-punk band released their last album in 2015. The track ‘Homesick/Roadsick’ is directly linked to the new single:

‘Roadsick/Roadsick is a bridge between the last record and where we’re headed as a band. I’m happy to have shared this moment with Sean, Flip, Tony and Pat during the recording process. Meeting Cameron Webb and having him as our producer only made it better,’ says vocalist Donald Spence, hinting that the album was produced by famed producer Cameron Webb (Motorhead, Sum 41, Megadeath and more).

Versus The World is made up of members of Lagwagon and Good Riddance, among others – musically, however, the band moves outside the ‘norm’ of skate and pop punk and features influences of emo and post.

About Versus The World:
A post-punk unit from Santa Barbara, California featuring members of Lagwagon and Good Riddance, Versus the World issued their eponymous debut album in 2005 on Kung Fu Records. Drawing from their dense pedigree the band blends elements of pop-punk, melodic post-hardcore and troubadour style vocals by founding front man Donald Spence. Versus the World has toured extensively world wide on subsequent releases Drink.Sing.Live.Love(2012) and Homesick/Roadsick(2015) in support of bands such as No Use for a Name, The Ataris, Lagwagon and MxPx. In 2021 the band teamed up with producer Cameron Webb (Motörhead, Megadeth) to make The Bastards Live Forever which is due out in May2023 on SBÄM Records.