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(review) Miss Vincent – A Funeral For Youth

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Miss Vincent released their debut album and it is a blast! This is pop punk/melodic punk rock par excellence. Many bands play this kind of music, but not many manage to write excellent songs and make an album without a filler. Well, Miss Vincent are, besides Hangtime from Canada my favorites in this genre. These bunch of songs contain perfect melodies, backing vocal harmonies, emotions that make your skin crawl with goosebumps and make you sing along and listen again. I love how doo wop influences are incorporated into some of the songs like Go It Alone and Vials. It is really hard to select songs that could stand out as my favorites because every song is that, but I will try: Melanie, My Iron Heart, Heresy. Go and discover this band you will not regret it.

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(review) Joey Cape/Jose Prieto – Yes Way Jose (Fat Wreck Chords)

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Joey Cape is, as most of you know, singer for Lagwagon and an icon of melodic punk rock and skatepunk, real legend. Jose Prieto is from MakeWar, awesome younger band that you should check out if you did not listen to their songs. This time, Joey and Jose deliver a little split seven inch with one song each. Joey Cape song is called Sorry and I can easily imagine it not acoustic, as is in this rendition, but with full band and it would be in the dark vein of last Lagwagon album called Railer which is for me one of the best band s releases ever in their history. Gentle, melodic and atmospheric with recognizable Joey s voice over great acoustic guitar melody. Jose Prieto s song is called Red and is a nice surprise continuing somehow darkened and sad atmosphere with fantastic melody on chorus and great Jose s voice having great interplay with Joey s voice. This is a nice little record.

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R!OT Release Debut EP (Members of The Mahones, The Ataris, The Brains)

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R!OT is Montreal’s new Punk Rock supergroup, composed of Sean Ryan (Irish Nails, The Mahones) on vocals and guitar, Danny Duke (The Ataris, The Queers, Ripcordz) on bass and vocals and Guillaume Lauzon (The Brains, Gutter Demons, People and Space) on Drums.

Blasting out of Montreal’s West End, the band’s debut EP consists of eight blazing tracks. Watch the video for the first single ‘Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts’HERE

The band formed at a Music Addicts meeting during the Covid pandemic. All three degenerates decided to ignore the confines of a world without music fully live out their sonic addictions to form a band that no responsible mother would ever let her children listen to.

Combining the wide variety of influences they each bring to the mix, this is the first effort from these well established punk rockers. The self-titled EP can be listened to at: Youtube Music, Spotify, Amazon Music Track Listing: 

1. Didn’t Say 2. Saturday Night 3. All Things That Matter To You 4. Brainy 5. Left For Dead 6. Pass The Drinks 7. New Soul 8. Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts