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(review) Another Joe – ‘Ready Or Not’ (People of Punk Rock Records)

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Canada has such a great punk rock scene and Another Joe are part of that scene. After long 23 years they finally released their full length record with People of Punk Rock Records. This is a record containing 8 songs. This is not your all out war fast skate punk/hardcore, no. This is pure punk rock, played tight, harsh and with conviction. Songs are mid tempo, influenced by old school punk bands from England, but more technical and also influence of American school of punk rock can be heard in song structures. There is rawness that many today’s punk bands lack, but there are also subtle or less subtle melodies getting through the guitar riffs and some almost gentle backing vocals like in my personal favorite ‘Freak’. Maybe it is only me, but I can also hear a lots of garage punk energy in there, not only in the mentioned song, but through the album as a whole. Songs that I must also mention as my highlights are ‘Sound Advice’ and ‘T-Bird Tattoo’.

Good one.

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Quebec skatepunks Go Great Guns reveal title song for their forthcoming e.p.

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Quebec City skatepunk foursome Go Great Guns is back with a new EP titled “Roots”. The follow up to their 2017 debut S/T album comes out March 10th via Thousand Islands Records. You can check out the title track out now.

Roots is about rising up and refusing to be held silent any longer. It’s a punk rock ode to the power of unity and equality, two human values we desperately need at this particular time. Describes Jeff Girard of Go Great Guns.

For Roots, the band returns with their blend of melodic and skate punk, this time pouring in hardcore elements for a more refined sound.

Roots EP Tracklist:

Bite The Bullet

Moving Frames

Drop A Bombshell

Shadows And The Streets

Roots

About Go Great Guns:

Go Great Guns is a melodic punk act formed in 2015 in Quebec City, Canada. Their eponymous debut album was released in 2017 on Thousand Islands Records. In 2020, with their friend and sound engineer Pierre Lemire, they went back to the shed to record “Roots”, the new EP released in march 2021 on the same label. The band found the exact sound and style they were after: a faster, heavier punk rock, while still being harmony and melody-oriented.

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(review) Mark & The Wolves-Lost For Words(Thousand Islands Records)

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Mark & The Wolves are coming from Quebec area, Canada and this e.p. is their first new material in four years coming out with Thousand Islands Records. This e.p contains 6 songs, one of them called Against The Wind being kind of intro. Ths music is fast and melodic skatepunk/melodic hardcore. The guitars are metalic and having that cutting edge I love so much. The vocals are loud, shouting, yet singing melodic and they are fantastic, in some spoken word parts like in Sheep & Shepherds being my favorite song on the record, with speed and anthemic harmonies all along the song. The music is not so much technical skatepunk, more having that old school nineties skatepunk vibe that I love so much, like all those old school Fat and Epitaph record, but at the same time sounding modern and fresh for new kids to join our ranks hehe. Revolt is also one of the songs that I must say are highlights for me on this record. In all, another superb release by this little big fantastic label.

9/10