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(review) Days N Daze-Show Me The Blueprints(Fat Wreck Chords)

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Days N Daze are an impressive band of outlaws from Texas. They released new record with Fat Wreck Chords and I just love their newer records where they somehow became more melodic than in their earlier stuff. For those who don˙t know, Days N Daze play acoustic mixture of folk punk, melodic punkrock, skatepunk, hell even crust in some songs. I love the harmonies on vocals provided by Jesse and Whitney who fulfill themselves with their voices so fantastic. There are 11 songs on this record, all being superb, some sounding melancholic and making me sad, some being angry and political, others just make me pump my fist in the air and jump around like crazy. I have never seen this band live, but I am pretty sure their shows are amazing to watch and listen. All the instruments, like trumpet, uke, mandolin, banjo and guitar accompanied by gutbucket and washboard are just awesome. I don`t usually listen a lot to such music, but these guys are fantastic. Recommended songs: My Darling Dopamine, Rewind, Show Me The Blueprints.

9/10

https://fatwreck.bandcamp.com/

LESS THAN JAKE Launches Lost At Home Sessions; Proceeds Benefit MusiCares

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Ska punk luminaries LESS THAN JAKE launches its first installment of Lost At Home Sessions. Volume One “Just Like Andy” is now on sale over at Bandcamp. Those who purchase the song at the current price will automatically be entered to win a prize pack that includes an old and rare glow-in-the-dark bobblehead and some out of print vinyl. Contest entries close on May 22nd and Volume Two will be on the horizon. Also, a portion of the proceeds will benefit MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund.

A message from the band: “Being cooped up at home like the rest of you, we thought it would be fun to keep the creative juices flowing and see if we could make music from five separate locations. That’s right, we’ve never played these songs together. It’s kind of an experiment, but we’re gonna have fun!”

MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. MusiCares‘ services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly influence the health and welfare of the music community. The Recording Academy and its affiliated charitable foundation MusiCares have established the COVID-19 Relief Fund to help our peers in the music community affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.

Continuing to play over 150 dates a year while also writing and recording new material has kept the band fresh in a time when “ska” has become something of a four letter word. The list of acts they have supported is staggering (Bon Jovi, Linkin Park, Snoop Dogg) while the list of bands that have supported them makes even the most hardened music industry veteran do a double take (Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Yellowcard). All the while the band has held firm to its punk rock roots and have managed to live through many musical trends simply by just being Less Than Jake.

With well over 300 releases on various labels under their belt, most would think their legacy is already in tact, but the status quo has never interested Less Than Jake. They continue to write and perform new material and have no thoughts of letting up. With the energy and exuberance of a band half its age and the determination of savvy veterans, there is seemingly no end point to this enduring and entertaining band.

LESS THAN JAKE is Chris DeMakes (vocals, guitar), Roger Lima (vocals, bass), Buddy Shaub (trombone), Peter “JR” Wasilewski (saxophone), and Matt Yonker (drums).

(new video-punkrock) Sunset Radio: Release A New Video For The Single Strangers!

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Italian punk-rock act Sunset Radio is glad to announce the release of the new video for “Strangers”, single available now in every digital store and in streaming HERE. The track is included in “Seasons”, five-tracks EP co-produced by Fabrizio Panebarco (Pan Music Production / Melody Fall) out on September 15th 2020.

“”Strangers’ is undoubtedly a song a bit ‘foreign’ to us, as the title says, but for some reason I feel it much closer to me than I could ever have imagined” says guitarist Riccardo Tasselli, “It’s a pop-rock ballad, we came out like this, and we wanted to record it, together with the supervision of Fabrizio Pan. It’s a very intimate, nostalgic and melancholic piece but at the same time with hopeful. The particular moment that the whole of humanity is going through, didn’t allow us to do much, so the idea was to gather people, friends, fans in a single video clip to make us feel a little closer in this hard period especially for us musicians. We were pleasantly surprised by the way people around us welcomed this initiative and the incredible amount of videos they sent us. In such a difficult time for everyone, a song like ‘Strangers’, even if only for a few minutes, can help us all feel closer. We can consider it our anthem for this 2020 quarantine”.