Californian legends The Vandals released their live album done in these strange covid times on cd and dvd. I watched The Vandals headline a day at Punk Rock Holiday couple of years ago in Slovenia and I was blown away with their fun show, full of great punk rock and not politically correct jokes and totally super music. Now, Christmas season is upon us and what better way to celebrate than with The Vandals live record full of great season songs like Christmas Time For My Penis, Grandpas Last Christmas, My First Christmas As A Woman, Thanks For Nothing and others. Celebrating The Vandals way haha. Also, this record contains all the live favorites and goldies like Live Fast Diarrhea, My Girlfriends Dead, Oi To The World. So, if you love your punk rock old school skatepunk, melodic, fun and with great musicianship, this is the right one forya. Go get it!
Love Equals Death are punk band from California and they are not so known to people in these parts, so I am glad that I discovered them through this record. They are not strangers to this zine because I interviewed them a while back. Now they are back with a collection of their previously released e.p. material and this album is a perfect way for you to get to know with this awesome band. Love Equals Death play a brand of melodic punk rock but with darkened vibe and sounding a lot more harsh in some song parts then your typical Cali punk rock band. There are also some street punk influences which fit perfectly with some gang sing along parts. But, the main fact is that this is well written and good punk rock to peel your ears and hearts while listening. Emotions, aggression, atmosphere, melody and fist pumping punk, that is all you need with this record and this band. Hopefully they will tour Europe in 2022 and I will get to see this band play live because I think that will be a fantastic show.
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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