Are you ready for some old school Californian punk as fuck that will melt your face off? Spider will give you just that! Their new e.p. is out just in time to cover their European tour during which the guys plan to promote the record. I listened to the record and reviewed it for this webzine.
The record contains 6 songs of classic sounding Californian punk like a lost son between Black Flag, Circle Jerks and The Germs. “PCE” is an excellent song that made me fist banging during the excellent anthemic chorus which reminded me why I love such bands. “New Junk II” really reminded me of the best Circle Jerks songs with slamming and pogo mayhem parts just made for live gigs. “Barcode Baby” is a dirty punkrock harsh song in the vein of Poison Idea and for me this one is the best song on the record. “Shooting Stars/Get Caught” didn˙t work well somehow with me, the vocals in the first part of the song and the rockish atmosphere just not make my cup of tea, but happily in the other half the song evolves into a much better beast. “Can˙t Control” has that nervous Black Flag vibe, that makes you wanna hug and break something at the same time. “Pleasure Fold” has a very catchy guitar melody in the beggining of the song and this song is just beautiful dirty punk anthem. So, if you want to hear the old school Cali punk as fuck, this record is just made for you. Of course, check out Spider live on their tour because it will be awesome.
Mad Caddies dropped their new album out on Fat Wreck Chords just in time for all those summer shows and festivals following and I am definitely gonna see them live soon in a month and a half and it is going to be awesome. In the meantime I listened and reviewed their new record for this webzine.
As you might have heard this is the album filled with covers of the bands that influenced Mad Caddies and which somehow had an effect on them as a band and as people. But, it is done in Mad Caddies way, meaning reggae and ska mixed with punkrock. As it usually goes, some songs are better, some are not so good, it depends on the listener´s personal point of view. In my opinion the best songs for me on this record are “She´s Gone(NOFX)” being a haunting reggae version of the original and featuring excellent back vocals by Aimee of The Interrupters, then “AM(Tony Sly)”, because it really resembles the original meaning of the song and adds to it the new vibe and “Some Kind of Hate(Misfits) having a 50´s vibe that is what makes the original so special but also adding the new originality to the song. Also “Alien 8(Lagwagon)” is nice too. Those are my four favourites and that doesn´t mean that the other songs sre not good. Check it out because this is not the simple covers album, it is much more because Mad Caddies added a lot of originality to these songs and I love this album for that.
Croatian punk hardcore scene is now better than ever. I have been a part of it for more than 25 years now, and I can safely say that there are many great bands, kids who promote gigs, venues and all that goes with it. Žulj are Croatian band from the city of Rijeka. This is their second demo album that came out a couple of days before and I listened to it and reviewed it for this webzine.
I reviewed their debut release “Vlažne pjesme” a while ago and it was an okay debut demo release. Now, this second record is really strong. This band started in 2015.but the members of the band have been active around playing in bands before so this record is much, much stronger than the debut. Record contains 10 songs. The songs are angry punk as fuck with rawer and dirtier production which is great for that kind of punk. The lyrics are shouted in Croatian and they are mainly political and very angry inspired by all the wrong shit that´s been going on in this country for the last couple of years. It really reminded me of the legendary Croatian punk hardcore band Nula which was one of my favorite Croatian punk band in the 90-ies. I really loved this record because almost no one plays punk as fuck in the Croatian scene anymore and that´s not good. Don´t get me wrong, I love the more melodic side of punk hardcore, but we should also have angry, energetic punk hardcore bands and Žulj are just that. Great record!
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