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United Defiance join Thousand Islands Records, announce new single “Cool Kids Club”

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California punks United Defiance are thrilled to announce that they’ve joined the ranks of Montreal-based independant label, Thousand Islands Records. The quintet is getting ready to enter studio this fall to begin recording of a new album which will serve as a follow up to Safe At Home, released in 2018 via defunct label, Heliarc Records.

But before locking themselves in the studio, United Defiance will provide everyone a taste of what’s to come on September 6th with the release of a brand new single “Cool Kids Club” with the accompanying music video created by Charged Heart Productions, teaser clip available HERE.

The band will hit the road next month for a short run of Canadian shows in support of “Cool Kids Club”, including a performance at Music 4 Cancer Fest.

About United Defiance:

United Defiance is a 5-piece punk rock band from the San Francisco Bay Area in California. Playing a mix of skatepunk and melodic hardcore, their sound harkens back to the iconic Fat and Epitaph bands of the mid-90’s. United Defiance has shared the stage with numerous headlining acts including Strung Out, No Use For A Name, Swingin’ Utters, Agent Orange, Guttermouth, T.S.O.L., Mad Caddies, Unwritten Law, The Real McKenzies, and many others. Most recently they played the Red Bridge Fest in Quebec with Face to Face, Ten Foot Pole, Authority Zero and others. After years of touring and recording, United Defiance released Safe At Home with the help of Heliarc Records in January 2018, which was enthusiastically received by critics and fans alike. United Defiance cordially invites you to join them for some tasty, tasty punk rock…

United Defiance is:

Noless – Vocals

Danny Tuggle – Drums & Vocals

Jeff Williams – Bass

Sasha Mereu – Guitar & Vocals

Renoops – Guitar & Vocals

United Defiance: Facebook | Spotify

Thousand Islands Records: Website

Charged Heart Productions: Facebook

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Photo by Scott Remmers

 

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(new video) Veteran punx Ten Foot Pole have a brand new video released!

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TEN FOOT POLE
Dennis Jagard: songwriter, lead vocal, rhythm guitars;
Scott Hallquist: lead guitars, backing vox, songwriting;
Richie Petrillo: bass, backing vox;
Guillaume Fortin: drums and backing vox  
SoCal veteran punk rockers Ten Foot Pole are back with a brand new album entitled “Escalating Quickly”, released on May 10th, 2019  on Thousand Islands Records, Disconnect Disconnect Records(UK), Morning Wood Records (Europe) and Pee Records, Australia.

Escalating Quickly is produced Ryan Greene….. anxious to showcase his skills beyond the iconic 90’s albums he produced (NOFX, Lagwagon, and No Use for a Name, etc.), was going for “The Bohemian Rhapsody of 90’s punk,” adding layers of ear candy and outlandish special guest shredding to the solid new TFP songs.

Ten Foot Pole is pleased to announce their first video featuring the track “Everything Dies” of their album “Excalating Quickly” (live footage from Red Bridge Fest, June 7, 2019 Pont-Rouge, QC)  Video production by David Hamel of POPR Media.
Everything Dies:  A fun, bouncy, sing-a-long celebration of impending doom.  Love, life and even puppies are not safe in this reminder that there is no happily ever after—but maybe that thought can help us let go of our worries and enjoy the moment.
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(review) TRASHED AMBULANCE-Shorthanded(Thousand Islands Records)

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Remember Trashed Ambulance from Canada? A while ago we did a review of their record here and an interview with the guys. Now, they have a new release with Thousand Islands Records and I listened and reviewed the record for our zine.

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The new record is released also on limited cassette edition so be fast to get it. It contains 6 beautiful melodic punkrock songs, what pleases the most that it sounds more of 90-ies melodic skatepunk, not the metalic technical skatepunk played by most of the newer bands these days, not that I don´t love technical skatepunk, but I prefer this style. The melodies are fine, I love the nice interplay between main vocals and backing vocal harmonies and the mixture of personal serious stuff and humour in the lyrics of the songs. The songs that I somehow dig the most are Open Road, Buy In(excellent song about the scene with super lyrics) and Trash Queen. If you are into honest, melodic, heartwarming punkrock this one is yours and you only need to get it.

8/10

https://thousandislandsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shorthanded