Me First and the Gimme Gimmes have never been afraid of being quirky, so it should be no surprise that they’ve put out an EP sung entirely in Japanese.
“I feel violent all the time inside of me,” rages Joyce Manor on “Violent Inside.” It doesn’t get much more honest than these 90 seconds of pure emotion.
San Francisco’s Dead To Me display shades of the UK band Consumed on the hard-driving “Undertow.” That kind of burly, forceful punk is always OK in our book.
Dangerous! bring screamo to the rock sound of their debut, Teenage Rampage. Mixed by Ulrich Wild (Deftones, Pantera), “Movers N Shakers” is from the new album.
“And I know when you’re living under sheets of snow/ it can look like the world’s gone black/ but remember that the sun comes back/ At least they say it does.”
The singer’s laptop got stolen with these files. But rough mixes were found, and now this nine-song release of favorite punk covers is available for streaming.