Ramones-inspired ditties stemming from ’50’s prom songs and juvenile delinquent movies are present, but these diverse bands show a wide range of vocal styles.
Ira is like Isis, Neurosis, Pelican, and all that instrumental stuff I’ve had a casual interest in for years, as you should. I like good drone, and this has it.
Female-fronted three-piece punkpop from The Netherlands, been around for a few years, play solid pop-oriented punk with real tunes and style in spades.
Good, chaotic, loud & boisterous, totally locked-in rhythm, freakin’ horns’n’reeds. Either from NYC or Chicago. A “band to know” nod from AP and an EP on Thick.
Hard. Core. Indeed, it takes physical strength to play the kind of music on this relentless 28-song sampler. Not a lot of snotty-voiced kids made the cut.
Really good poppy-style punk, and fantastic beer-swilling hardcore ranging from ’77-style to squatter-political to fast-ass rock’n’roll to general sociopathic.
They have an excellent rhythm section, with super-fast beats, and are really tight. The guitarist kicks ass, and the singer keeps up with the hectic pace.
Bands like these are so fucking lame. It’s well-produced and the riffs are good, too bad it’s all wasted on lame lyrics about totally pathetic politics.
The first Two Man Advantage release was a punk rock record about hockey: Playin’ it, watchin’ it, and drinkin’ beer to it. Here, there’s one about a GTO.
A re-issue of the classic first record. Fast, snotty, and, well, crappy-sounding, just like punk sounded in the very early-’90s when this was recorded.
It’s Troma, so unless you rent only from Blockbuster, you know this is some sexy, gross, weird and wild shit. Get this soundtrack cuz every band is a someone.
The Pinkerton Thugs are called what they’re called and they’re basically street level punk, the kind of “tough life” crap we all write in notebooks in middle school but later outgrow.
Cunningly disguised as a piece-of-shit punk comp, this masterpiece of “audio salvation” will entertain you with the fresh sounds of today’s hottest artists.
Dave Smalley’s been around, sung for bands you oughtta know, has a master’s degree in political science, and he wants to tell us about the state of the world.
Anti-Flag are energetic punks with their hearts in the right place, and they put on a great live show, as long as you ignore the stage banter between songs.