Thousand Islands Records has teamed up with Euro legends, SBÄM Records, to reissue the awesome split EP from Joey Cape/Hugo Mudie & The City Streets.
The EP, which originally came out in 2012, has been outfitted with a new design and 3 funky new vinyl colours to choose from – Yellow/ Green splatter, Purple/Blue splatter (both exclusive to SBÄM Records), and Pink/Blue splatter (exclusive to Thousand Islands Records) – all 3 variants are limited to 333 units per colour choice.
Pick your favourite colour combo, or even better, grab all 3! Head over to the SBÄM and Thousand Islands Records websites to secure your copy!
Track Listing:
A1 – Joey Cape – Burning Out In Style A2 – Joey Cape – Made Of Broken Parts B1 – Hugo Mudie & The City Streets – Get Out Of My Head B2 – Hugo Mudie & The City Streets – First Day Of My Life
They say new beginnings are hard, but The Rumjacks did it and proved it is sometimes worth to have a new start. The Aussies recruited new American singer Mike Rivkees and it proved to be full bullseye. Hence, new album, new start. Hestia offers 14 songs of celtic punk mixed with street punk and oi influences. Now, everyone who reads this zine will know that I am not an avid fan of celtic punk of folk punk at all, but this record is full of melodies and has just enough guitars and harmonies, even some ska parts, not to be boring and not to be celtic punk that I don´t like. Some songs remind me a lot of Bruisers, or maybe even Anti Heroes in some song parts. Mike´s voice fits perfectly to the songs and it seems that a change brought new energy in the band, which was wanted and needed. This fifth album is probably in my opinion the best this band had to offer until now, but that doesn´t mean that they will not provide something even better in years to come. My personal highlights: Hestia, Light In My Shadow, Wanderlust.
I have waited for a long time to read this one and now that I have, I must say that I am satisfied with this book. Bad Religion are one of the most important punk rock bands in the world and especially in melodic punk hardcore genre and they recently celebrated 40 years in the scene. This book is an autobiography of all ups and downs, from early days till today. Depicts all line-up changes and heartbreaks, alcohol and drug abuse problems and major label controversy. Also, this book has healthy dose of anecdotes that I wanted to read about mixed with more historical contents, like the rise of Epitaph Records and all that punk rock boom in the nineties. This band was always special to me, because through their album Generator I discovered melodic punk and skatepunk scene and my life hasn´t been the same since, that being my other love besides metal. This book is easy to read, it is interesting and doesn´t let up until the very end making you go play all your favorite BR records and songs over and over again celebrating this great band. I saw them play live only once in 2018 and I will definitely check them out as soon gigs and festivals start again. Until then, go get this nice book.
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