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Dead Pollys present “Summer of Punk / Sweden 2019” Tour with The Vibrators!

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Dead Pollys from Stockholm have invited the legends The Vibrators for a common summer tour, “Summer of Punk / Sweden 2019”. The tour starts in Stockholm on June 27th and ends in Linköping July 6th. Six dates are ready at the time of writing. The Vibrators are known for the song “Baby Baby” and their first gig was as support to The Stranglers. They have also played with both Sex Pistols and Iggy Pop. Dead Pollys have members from bands like Sighstens Grannar and Sir Reg. In 2015, Dead Pollys toured the USA with Dave Smalley and his band Down By Law. In February 2019 they released the album “Strummerland” via Too Loud Records.
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(record review)MILLENCOLIN-SOS(Epitaph)

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Millencolin was one of the most important bands to the kids in our scene, my hometown and the region here in the 90-ies. I am very happy that they are still around and they are still up and kicking with the brand new album which I reviewed for this zine.

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Its been a couple of years since the last one, so I didn´t know what to expect with the new music. Millencolin are for me one of those bands that are better sounding on the albums than live, so I love their albums very much, but I don´t like their shows so much. The new album contains 12 nice songs of melodic 90-ies punkrock which takes me back to the time when I was a kid and all I wanted was to rock and hang out with my brothers and sisters. 25 years have passed, but I am still that kid in my heart. When the first single, the title song came out, I had the chorus of that song immediately in my ear and hummed it all day long and still do now. There is the quartet of awesome great songs on this record being the title song, Carry On, Nothing(my personal favorite), and Sour Days which are true punkrock anthems. The rest of the material is not so good as those mentioned above, but enough to make this a good album, one of those that grows better and better to your heart every listening. If you love your punkrock fast, without complicating, anthemic, grab this new album by this Swedish legends.

8/10

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(record review)PERKELE-Leaders Of Tommorow(Spirit of the Streets Records)

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Perkele are back with a new album out with Spirit of the Streets and I listened and reviewed the new record for our zine.

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The Swedes surprised not only me, but many old fans with the single and the video they released prior to the record called One Day. The chorus of the song is good, but I had to re-check the line-up to see if it is the same guys playing. It is not generally bad when band changes style and evolves in its existence, but some bands just don`t fit into that category and Perkele are definitely one of them. They gained a lot of fans during the years with their melodic, but streetsmart version of punk. This new album contains 10 songs, but the sound of the band is now just to metalic. Yes, the early recordings where also metalized, but this new sound just doesn`t suits me as a listener. The guitar solos are too often and too many, the galloping metal riffs are also too often and I wondered if it is Iron Maiden or Perkele apart from the trademark vocals. Not all is black, there are some awesome songs on the record like Miss U or Stand By You, but the other bad songs like the cheesy ballad Mistakes and others  are just too many to make this album a keeper. Listen to yourself and decide I gave it a spin for many times and still it`s bad.

4/10

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