Winning Streak will soon follow up it’s re-release of Whichever Path You Take with their new album, We Need A Plan. This band combines speed, melody, technical riffs, and inspiration from multiple genres to pull off its tight and unique sound.
Their first album featured guest artists like Mike Herrera (MxPx), Dave Nassie (NUFAN), and Chris McGrath(Much the Same), and was voted one of the top 50 albums of 2018 by Skatepunkers.
Originally founded in 2004 by Andrew Palmer, Michael Hall, and Sam Koehl, Winning Streak has recently expanded its lineup to add Davey Knight and Chris McGrath.
This album was recorded at home studios in Utah, Texas, Nashville, and Chicago, remixed by Michael Hall, and remastered by John Harcus.
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.
Blacked Out are from Vancouver and this is their new e.p. out with Thousand Islands Records. There are five songs on this e.p. The music of this band is fast energetic hardcore punk, leaning more on melodic side of things, more like skatepunk. But, they are enough technical to satisfy fans of technical skatepunk, yet leaning enough in the nineties old school genre waters, to satisfy also fans of old school melodic punk with some metal thrown here and there in the song structures. For me the best songs on this e.p. that I recommend are I Don˙t Know and Tribalism. Nice one indeed!
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