rolling punk rock 2024

let's talk about punk bands/artists and their music, especially new releases!

these days, it is only appropriate to start off with a new album from a band out of the fertile scene in Melbourne, Australia:

Split System's Vol. II, out in February on Goner (U.S.) and Drunken Sailor (EU)
Classic, straight-ahead garage-punk, played fast, bouncy and super catchy.

https://splitsystem.bandcamp.com/album/vol-2

also, new full-length out Friday on Sorry State Records from Cleveland weirdos Pulsating Gore:

https://sorrystaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/pulsating-gore

labels to follow:

Upset Condition
Rotten Apple

No announcement yet but based on a what I've seen online Uranium Club should have a new LP this year, finally.

1000% on board with this

https://www.spin.com/2024/01/second-wave-egg-punk/

(Uranium Club get a mention there, I gotta check them out)

also I was told via a band member that there is a new Skull Cult EP coming in 2024, they are so good

Uranium Club is a very good (and fun) live band, would love a chance to get to see them again. I think this album is a pretty good start if you are looking to dive in:

https://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-cosmo-cleaners

they are great, weirdly not very active even here in Minneapolis I've only seen em a couple times

wow this Snooper album from 2023 is some of the greatest shit I have ever heard, also linked in that Spin article

https://snooper7.bandcamp.com/album/super-sn-per

yeah, they totally rule

i saw some "real" punks slagging them in the comments on that story - on social, the story itself doesn't have comments - proving exactly the points Snooper was trying to make, of course.

i get why people like the Snooper, it’s just not my thing.

good comp here w/ lots of those bands from that SPIN article, plus others that are in the same vein:

https://palestinesolidaritycompilation.bandcamp.com/album/palestine-solidarity-compilation

thanks, I snagged that, note that you have to make a donation to a separate organization and then email the receipt for a DL code

and that cassettes are in the work from a handful of different labels

oh nice, would (re)buy

Pyrex is a cool band. Nice folks as well.

They (Pyrex) are playing Total Punk Records' two-day festival in Portland in May, along with Itchy & the Nits, Retail Simps, Human Eye, Sick Thoughts, Tyvek and more:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1gYCAFO5EK/

It's sold out (venue holds 200ish), but mentioning here in case anyone wants to make the effort.

that's cool, I am very close but not gonna try for soldout tix

go Portland!

that Palestine benefit comp has a bunch of great bands I had never heard of, already hooked on HÅGØL and Busted Head Racket

see also https://hiimbilliam.bandcamp.com/album/jump-to-3d

yeah, Billiam is sort of a baby/rising folk hero in that scene ... i think he said he has a full-length coming out on ETT this year, i would not be surprised if he *relatively speaking* blows up a bit

yep I am currently blasting this excellent thing he did with Busted Head Racket
https://bustedheadracket.bandcamp.com/album/genetic-southern-hemisphere-christmas

Looks like that new Uranium Club is imminent. Single available to stream here:

https://antifaderecords.bandcamp.com/album/infants-under-the-bulb

Sure hope they tour, would love to catch them live again.

i went to an actual punk house show a couple weeks ago, first time in ages

Cleveland's The Missed headlined, really fun stuff, especially love the parts when this speeds up, she can really play, other songs she was doing almost J. Mascis stuff, lots of hooks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNKmDN14cxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17vFU-8ZoHw

Yeah she rips.

Kinda got a Kristin Hersh vibe a little, not a bad thing!!

latest rockin' discovery is Florida's Rude Television

https://rudetelevision.bandcamp.com/album/i-want-to-believe

didn’t like snooper. guess im more of a first wave egg punk guy

I know I repped them in last year's thread, but just found out that they did this live studio session cassette last year that really shows how tight and fucking RIPPPING they are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4slhlxkl3E

They also stan Henry Flynt on their merch site, which is very much "my team" shit

Cherry Cheeks!! love this dinky synth Screamers-influenced shit.

They are playing in Portland in early March with Prison Affair, Nick Normal (?), and The Gobs, I am prob going

me too! The Gobs are maybe my favorite punk band of the past three years. when they were added (at first the bill was PA, CC, NN and Puerta Negra), it became a must for me.

I am officially going! tickets purchased! will be coming up w/a friend

two early Cherry Cheeks tapes just reissued here: https://godlessamericarecords.bandcamp.com/merch

enjoyable egg-ish/new wave-ish sometimes chaotic punk from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, North America, Earth: https://dialupband.bandcamp.com/album/dial-up

dear bandcamp writers, I like this EP by The Spatulas just fine, but it is not even remotely close to punk rock and I am baffled at to why it made it into the monthly roundup

"as to"

hi all - introducing myself after not-posting here in something like 15 years. anyway, I'm hoping it isn't bothersome to just jump in...

I was really excited to see the deluxe bias label come back with a couple of new releases last week after a dead-quiet 2023. this etiquette tape is definitely up my alley: short, brutal, self-consciously bone-headed... I love how this stuff takes advantage of the tape form not only as a fetish object but as a kind of mitigating/obscuring factor in the sound itself - it gives me the same thrill of hearing some "forgotten"/lost blues or international recording (not to mention, like, pre-slanted&enchanted pavement). no idea if I'd connect with it live or in full fidelity.

https://deluxebias.bandcamp.com/album/etiquette-demo-db-25

in a similar vein, I still haven't gotten over this cryin' hand tape from late 2022... pretty sure it's the same guy behind the exceptional HOLOGRAM stuff (https://ironlungrecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-longer-human-lungs-183), not to mention a side player in other projects.

https://dreamhomemusic.bandcamp.com/album/laugh-now-house-10

also, I know it got a lot of burn on punk-oriented year-end lists, but I thought that fairytale album was beautiful, for those who might not've heard it. perfect balance of lightness and violence. the cavernous-sounding vocals are a dreamy touch, & not something I'd ordinarily be into.

https://warsnofairytale.bandcamp.com/album/shooting-star

anyway, thanks for the recommendations here so far - hoping again that I'm not intruding!

wow, i've been checking in every other month or so to DL and assumed they'd hung it up! great post, please keep posting for sure

yeah thanks!

*every other month or so to Deluxe Bias, i meant

both of those Deluxe Bias tapes are already sold out! crazy how tapes have basically replaced 45s in this new scene for immediacy/urgency/relevancy

i know :'(

not bothersome at all, mike! welcome! post away!

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yeah, the more the merrier, thanks for the recs...

Yeah, Cryin' Hand has Brendan in it, who basically is Hologram by himself on record I believe. Luke, who does Divorce Horse with Brendan also, is in it too. They get up to a crazy amount of stuff so hard to keep up, but I generally like all of it! Hologram is very cool stuff.

Brendan plays live now with that band Black Button I posted about last year, and has a new band called Cicada too.

That Black Button record got put out on vinyl recently if anyone is interested. Definitely a record I listened to quite a bit last year, really love it. "Great Closing Sleep" is a track I get stuck in my head all the time: https://blackbuttonva.bandcamp.com/album/black-button-rejoice-undesirable-033

following

https://dreamhomemusic.bandcamp.com

also, Richmond represent!

Hah yeah Richmond is a pretty good spot for this kinda thing. Brendan was a DC guy but moved there and a lot of cross-playing between those two places seems to be happening. Again, hard to keep up.

Richmond is cool, I was there for 18 hours last year and it was 18 of the best hours of 2023 for me.

Public Acid also from Richmond

going to see the Chisel on Sunday. supporting is a local hardcore band I like a lot called Plastics, they only have a 7" out https://crewcuts.bandcamp.com/track/nerve-pusher

new Rude Television EP
https://rudetelevision.bandcamp.com/album/collection

and only out now but old/archival is the very cool Terminal Intensity tape/DL from Gulcher, this was Billy Nightshade's band in 1977-78 right before he joined The Gizmos, as they mutated from proto-punk to punk (or maybe he was the push in that direction), I always thought he was the coolest Gizmo and I treasure seeing their 1988 reunion in person.
https://thegizmos.bandcamp.com/album/tentatively-terminal-1977-1978

Soon Daryl and I realized it was easier to write our own songs than figure out ones by the Stones or Kinks. We found the process of writing songs in our own haphazard way! Gradually the songs got better and we decided it was time to put a band together!

I made a list of my favourite punk releases of 2023 for people who like lists of things with no information at all about them:

Anti-Machine - Too Many Eyes 7"
Bog People - S/T
Consensus Madness - S/T 7"
Delco MF's - 100% Complete And Total Motherfuckers
Destruct - Cries The Mocking Mother Nature
Eunix - Demo 2023 CS
Fairytale - Shooting Star
Ignorance - S/T 7"
JJ & The A's - S/T 7"
Lafff Box - S/T
Lethal - Lethal's Hardcore Hit Parade 7"
Lexicon - Poison Head 7"
Massacred - Post-Mortem 7"
P.S.Y.W.A.R. - Defcon 7"
Paranoid - S.C.U.M. 12"
Personal Damage - Atrophy & Entropy
Physique - Overcome By Pain 7"
Planet On A Chain - Boxed In
Private Function - 370HSSV 077EH
Scarecrow - Crisis 7"
Shrinkwrap Killers - Feed The Clones Pt. 1
Sial - Sangkar 7"
Snooper - Super Snooper
Stingray - Fortress Britain
Thatcher's Snatch - White Collar Man 7"
Warcycle - Manifesting Barbarity 7"
Wet Specimens - Over Pale Bodies
Young Francis Hi Fi - The Young Generation

I have about 40 (lol) honourable mentions if anyone wants those too

I love Consensus Madness! recent discovery, they have a demo tape that rips as well

have punk 7"s gotten expensive like non-punk 7"s? i don't even look at new 7"s most of the time because I feel like they're $10, and that seems like too much to me. but i'm old.

maybe the punk bands/labels have held the line?

they are 7-8 bucks usually it seems?

I am doing almost exclusively tapes and downloads for 2024 punk stuff but I have already made a bunch of exceptions for 7"s (Skull Cult, Collate, Smirk, Billiam, etc)

depends on the label but prices have gone up a bit here yeah, £7-8 for a 7". but then inflation has been high so I don't think that's totally unreasonable

the bigger distros I follow have got a bit silly for LPs though, £25-35 is pretty common now and that does seem a bit much when other labels can do it for £14-18

new Buio Omega rips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxs1J96WqNQ

new Public Acid LP just dropped

https://beachimpedimentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deadly-struggle

I was coming to post about that Public Acid, too. I liked it! It definitely feels more metal than Condemnation, but it's cool how they manage to skirt catchiness without totally capitulating to standard songs or hooks. That Beat Session was great, I thought (https://publicacidshout.bandcamp.com/album/beat-session-vol-10).

Does anyone like Total Sham? I liked their last album, and the one that came out Friday sounded good on first couple of listens, too. I tend to like self-consciously stupid, negative stuff, and I appreciate how they capture classic hardcore with just the slightest touch of '70s rock but don't sound throwback per se. (https://utgrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lp-2)

In a not dissimilar vein, I also went back to that 2023 album from The Hell a couple of times last week. I think it's really good. There's something just slightly poppy/classic-rock about them that really leavens the sound for me. (https://notfortheweakrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-hell).

But my most-listened to thingy in this awful, excoriating, cathartic realm over the past few weeks has definitely been this Yambag EP from 2022. It almost reminds me a little of Naked City or Napalm Death or something like that. I don't find them pretentious at all, but they definitely like to shift tempo and feel a lot in pretty small spaces, and it's obvious that they can play straight when they want to. I love this band. (https://yambag.bandcamp.com/album/strength-in-nightmares)

oh I liked that Yambag EP a lot, had forgotten about that

am going to 2 days of the Damage Is Done weekender in London this week.

Thursday is headlined by Fairytale, their album was one of my favourite releases of 2023. Saturday is headlined by Japanese crust legends Framtid which I'm really looking forward to. Also playing: Take It In Blood, Bulls Shit, Subdued, Ikhras, Violent Offence, Quarantine, The Flex, T.S. Warspite, The Annihilated, Stingray, Echo Chamber, Mazandaran, Desorden, Hellscape and Catastrophe. have seen several of those before but should be good.

I love that I have never heard of any of those. so many punk bands out there!

it's a little more hardcore-oriented that weekend. I think you might like Subdued, they are kind of dark heavy anarcho-punk. most of the other bands are straight up hardcore although I would recommend the Flex who one of my favourite UKHC bands

There's a new Yambag record that's supposed to come out soon too they put up a new track/video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppbu79rtjwA

Framtid!~ Sick.

Love that Total Sham sound, thanks Mike Powell!

Re: the Public Acid, I'm a little dubious about calling a thrashy hardcore record more "metal" just because there are a few blazing guitar solos, but point taken. I think it's as good as Condemnation. They really rip live, highly recommend it.

https://horsewhipfl.bandcamp.com/album/consume-and-burn

my friend's band put out a record back in nov. hardcore isn't my zone but i think they're pretty heavy and their live shows can be crazy. they're about to tour the east coast and this thread seems like the best place to give ilxors a heads up on that

https://horsewhipfl.bandcamp.com/album/consume-and-burn🕸

my friend's band put out a record back in nov. hardcore isn't my zone but i think they're pretty heavy and their live shows can be crazy. they're about to tour the east coast and this thread seems like the best place to give ilxors a heads up on that

six days until the big Portland show!! alpine static I would love to say hi, I'll be in an Indian (Delhi) style dress, boots, and artsy battle vest that has a This Heat design on the back (the cover of Health And Efficiency)

The Coffin Pricks (Chris Thomson, Ryan Weinstein, Jeff Rice) LP is finally out, ten yrs too late but who cares, it sounds even better then I remember

https://coffinpricks.bandcamp.com/album/semi-perfect-crimes

wow what was the delay? i still have a button on my dresser from seeing them back in the day (i guess around 2011)

They broke up and moved on to other stuff, but I know Ryan's been tinkering with the recordings for a minute

new pissed jeans is sounding great

loving this December release

https://idiotaperecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-brief-history-of-planets-space-and-shit

not new punk, but amphetamine reptile is reissuing, for the first time ever, the legendary debut tape from Minneapolis hardcore band Iron Fist. kinda stoked about it.

https://www.shoxop.com/products/iron-fist-crucify-me-digipak-cd

new pissed jeans is sounding great

― gman59, Friday, 1 March 2024 18:29 bookmarkflaglink

thank you for reminding me they have a new one out

was at the hardcore weekender last night, I mostly went to see Fairytale, half the supports were the karate in the pit type of thing which I'm not into, although I liked Bulls Shitt (crap name though) because they were pretty old school. tbh didn't think Fairytale were that good live but I think partly because they are pretty noisy and the mix was weird and seemed to turn into mush a lot which might not've been their fault.

I skipped today but tomorrow is the all-dayer with Framtid headlining so am looking forward to that. looks like most of the karate bands are playing earlier in the day at least

lol @ "karate bands", are people really pulling moves like that in pits these days?

the last time I was in a real pit was Against Me! in uhhhh 2016?? I lost a prized button on my battle vest, lol - since replaced but with a less-cool design

lol @ "karate bands", are people really pulling moves like that in pits these days?

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 2 March 2024 02:14 bookmarkflaglink

unfortunately yes, but it's mostly a kind of separate scene to the stuff I usually go to. this event is pretty big tent hardcore though so there's some meathead crowd killing type bands, old school hardcore punk, crust, anarcho etc. something for everybody

tbh I think the last time I spent a significant amount of time in the pit was the Circle Jerks in 2022. am old

i would never get in a pit ever again, the last two shows where I did were quite enough for me — both were Limp Wrist shows and the allure of being in a pit with a hundred other sweaty naked punk faggots is a bit too enticing to me

so i guess absent another Limp Wrist reunion, never again

lol <3

unfortunately yes, but it's mostly a kind of separate scene to the stuff I usually go to.

Dillinger Escape Plan have a lot to answer for, I guess

accidentally found this band from the very esoteric and strange county that abuts part of my neighborhood, Delco MF’s absolutely rip, good stuff

https://delco-mfs.bandcamp.com/album/the-march-of-the-mfs

excellent

I saw them in September

any good live?

Delco MFs put out a year-in-review type comp late last year that I liked a lot (and was just listening to this morning, actually): https://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/100-complete-total-motherfuckers.

xp yeah they were pretty manic

Gig was fucking amazing tonight. I decided to skip the first few hours because while I like the first 2 bands they were on at 3 then there were 4 karate bands so I got there about 5:30. Highlights were Stingray, the Flex (seen them loads of times but this was a highlight, crowd went fucking mental) then Framtid just completely destroyed the place

Gigs like that are why I still love hardcore punk

nice

also I saw this guy I know who has a spare ticket for the sold out Hard Skin/Imploders gig next month. just a top night all round tbh

same guy was saying he doesn't really like 77 punk much so I made a playlist of only 1977 punk to attempt to persuade him otherwise, not much of which will probably a surprise to denizens of this thread but is here anyway https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1BKljArSHlCTadcuz27gAX

a bunch of unimpeachable tracks there, nice work

forgot about that Lurkers track, used to love it when i was a young one. thanks!

sleeve - i'm still planning on being there (weather permitting; i live well outside the city) and will keep an eye out for you! i'll be the boring-ass old white guy in blue jeans and one of my three shirts. :)

awesome playlist

new pissed jeans is great

pretty psyched about this Tuesday show, it has been over a decade since I went to PDX for a weeknight show and stayed over.

still totally obsessed with this Media Puzzle band, seriously y'all

https://idiotaperecords.bandcamp.com/track/simple-as-that

sleeve! i didn't see ya (that i know of) but i made it to the show.

loved Prison Affair and Cherry Cheeks, and The Gobs confirmed my belief that they are the greatest punk band in the history of the world.

(j/k, of course, but they did rule.)

they totally fucking ruled

points in The Gobs favor:
1. all 3 members wore dark sunglasses on stage
2. crudely painted sheet backdrop with band logo motif
3. twice as loud as the other three bands, the only one I needed earplugs for
4. singer/bassist saying "oh no, I forgot to do the banter, banter banter banter"
5. killer guitarist doing wild digital effects shit as interstitials to the tunes
6. talked to them afterwards and as soon as I told them about my radio show and instead of 99% of band reactions where they say "oh let me send/give you something to play" The Gobs were like "ooh can we do one of those things that's like "THIS IS THE GOBS AND YOU'RE LISTENING TO...", I fuckin love it.

7. sounded vastly better live than on their deliberately muddy-sounding recordings

and yeah Cherry Cheeks killed it to, there was a moment near the end of their set where it all really seemed to click

oh and

8. best new drummer I have seen in a good long while, her name is Jolene!

hell yeah.

#6 = so badass

#5 = i was right by him. at one point, he was making the sound of a toy laser gun into his pickups and looping it.

they also had one of those blow-up dancing guys like you see in front of car dealerships (but like 5 feet tall) and they'd modified it with an alien face and flipping middle fingers on both hands. i didn't even know it was there but as soon as they started playing, it filled with air and stood straight up. it was awesome.

haha I forgot about that! I was in the back like an old punk.

they also have the best songs titles of any new band, I mean "Nuke The Sun"? I Wanna Fuck The Moon"? that shit is genius level.

liking this ... not sure i'm loving it - ok, maybe the first track i love - but i am liking it:

https://grazia.bandcamp.com/album/in-poor-taste

yeah I like that one!

also digging two new tape EPs from the Earth Girl label in MS:

https://earthgirltapes.bandcamp.com/album/new-eyes
https://earthgirltapes.bandcamp.com/album/st-2

this is fun too

https://goodbyeboozydigital.bandcamp.com/album/dru-the-drifter-and-the-back-alley-hookers-tape

aw yeah, more Australian rockist goodness
https://drunkmums.bandcamp.com/album/beer-baby

uranium club album is really good

it is. probably my favourite they've done

other 2024 favourite not previously mentioned on this thread is People Problem by Nasti

may I present...THE GOBS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVGMTB-3wyQ

(video shot by a friend I went with)

Seconding the Nasti endorsement if you like things stupid and mean and a little bit abstract.

Does anyone here care about Bib? I like the new one (Biblical) but have found myself going back to Delux more. Can't figure out what's drawing me to it.

I didn't like Biblical as much as their older stuff tbh

Prison Affair, same show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhR44rUPvxs

(love how u can see The Gobs in the pit there)

new Deluxe Bias tape, thanks for the tip there

https://deluxebias.bandcamp.com/album/awful-4-songs-db-26

new JJ & the A's 7": https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/eyeballer

^^ rules, thanks!

i am loving this gobs video and need more

ask and ye shall receive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QXhVEeFW0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-10vpUn8WE

thank you! i'm also loving the "awful" tape on deluxe bias

Gosh, I always love Deluxe Bias, and that was no exception (though I feel like they missed an opportunity to call it 4 Awful Songs).

I enjoyed this new Unlawful Assembly tape by Youth in Asia with coffee this morning. Terrible name! But some good, funny vocals and great riffs and overall appealing feel.

https://unlawfulassembly.bandcamp.com/album/youth-in-asia-nuclear-waste-abomination

punk bands to come up with an original band name [IMPOSSIBLE]

fuck's sake there are 14 of them on discogs, but this is one I know https://www.discogs.com/artist/399717-Youth-In-Asia-2

let the record show that there is only one "The Gobs" on discogs ;)

I admit I am not as into this strain of punk. In some ways, a lot of the sounds that I enjoy in the punk/hc realm are overwhelmingly similar to the sounds that I enjoyed most as a teenager— grind, thrash, and Orange County hc alongside stuff like Born Against is my sort of sweet spot. Snotty punk a la the Gobs is fun live, but I never listen to it.

yah u are way more metal/grind oriented than me, I'm a sucker for the "dorky melodies buried in distortion" thing

thankfully we live in times of such bounty that there is enough great punk for everyone!

ILX punk McCarthy hearings where everyone has to state if they are an egg punk or chain punk

lol

I do not get the Uranium Club album at all, somebody give me a good track to try besides the first one

wrt distorted dorky melodies vs grind/thrash/hc I am v much "why not both?"

<3

Can’t speak to the new one but their older stuff always reminded me of Wire and occasionally of 100 Flowers/The Urinals

wrt distorted dorky melodies vs grind/thrash/hc I am v much "why not both?"

fair! I am the reverse, pretty much, although straight oldschool pre-metal HC can still enthrall me at times

I am from the generation of hardcore kids where metal was just beginning to make inroads, I especially was deeply suspicious of it and snobby about it too. I viewed DRI's "Crossover" as a personal betrayal, lol.

table iirc your era was the era where emo was considered the "enemy", yeah? the white-belt kids of the early 2000s?

I guess mine would've been the Epifat type of NOFX-clone skate punk, I basically only listened to 70s-mid-80s punk/hc in the late 90s because of that stuff. never went to any punk gigs either, I thought all "modern" punk was rubbish. thanks to the internet and file-sharing I now know there was good stuff happening all through that era I just missed it all

Sleeve, not sure this will do it for you, but this is one of the more straightforward rockers on the album.

https://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/track/abandoned-by-the-narrator

Admittedly the Uranium Club thing is pretty specific, easy to see it not working for lots of folks.

Uranium Club played here (Sydney) last night… I went along mainly to see RMFC who are always great… hadn’t really gelled with the Uranium Club I had heard prior but they were super fun - well-judged mix of smart and dumb, clever song structures (Wire mention above was OTM) - got the crowd going, a terrific night

I fuckin love RMFC, one of the best albums from last year.

speaking of RMFC:

https://totalpunkrecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/total-punk-order-of-the-dirty-plates-7-singles-club

"The bands included are: RMFC, CLASS, RETAIL SIMPS, TEE VEE REPAIRMANN, ITCHY & THE NITS, SPIRAL DUB, ALIEN NOSEJOB, and PUPPET WIPES."

I am from the generation of hardcore kids where metal was just beginning to make inroads, I especially was deeply suspicious of it and snobby about it too. I viewed DRI's "Crossover" as a personal betrayal, lol.

table iirc your era was the era where emo was considered the "enemy", yeah? the white-belt kids of the early 2000s?

so in other words: i have no idea what the white belt kids were/are, and i loathed emo… tho still have affection for the very early Orchid records and the first Boysetsfire record

somewhere in a closet in my parents’ house is a box with all of my punk CDs, which i might try to scrounge up one of these days.

last year i finally took back the box of nearly every Punk Planet ever published, from the 3rd issue to the final one

wow @ RMFC

they are so good, I love how the electric 12-string sounds in that mix

table that's super interesting, those are years I wasn't always paying attention to punk, mine is kinda like:

1982: first Sex Pistols album, first Clash concert (their last US tour)
1983: heavily into Joy Division, Siouxsie, Gang Of Four, postpunk in general
early '84: shift to Dead Kennedys/Black Flag, first actual HC show (JFA, Sun City Girls, Mighty Sphincter, local HC band)
late 84: DRI, Suicidal, Minor Threat, Minutemen, all of it
late '85: starting listening to TG, PTV, Coil, etc
86: Sonic Youth rules my world
87-96 or so: noise/experimental snob
97-2001: reminded that there are other good genres out there, diversification
2001-2007: we booked punk/HC shows at our house, Tragedy, Submission Hold, From Ashes Rise, all the hits. Faggot! Clan Of The Bleeding Eye! Realicide! fun times.
2008-2023: not much really, lotta record collector rock
end of 2023: friend plays me the Liquids album, I realize there is a ton of great stuff out there again, I start buying tapes by the dozens

I should also note that I always listened to Chumbawamba, Crass, Fugazi, and The Ex throughout this entire timeline

interesting to see your travels through it, too— interestingly it was in 99 that I bought Goo at a flea market and became obsessed with SY, and then that sort of helped me into other punk-adjacent but not punk music. i was also really into G!YBE and Windy & Carl in the early 2000s

Do we all go through a teen year or two where it feels wrong to listen to things not-punk? And is that the source of later exhortations that Mingus/Dylan/whatever *are* punk?

yes and yes imho

yes

I had to look to refresh my memory, my MRR years were 84-91. I still have them! I was also very into all the Olympia/PNW riot grrl/KRS/K stuff in the early/mid 90s. I do have some later stuff like heartattack, Slug & Lettuce, damn I wish I still had the Antipathy zines my friend Mike did.

have a lot of Slug and Lettuce issues!!

Is the Submission Hold that two folks have mentioned the Vancouver band? Because I had no idea they had any impact outside of our town. They used to throw a great house show.

yep! they were pretty big back in the day! one of our largest shows.

Loved them, saw them at one very memorable show in Detroit.

They were great. I still have a cassette of theirs from when they were orginally called Insult II Injury

Do we all go through a teen year or two where it feels wrong to listen to things not-punk? And is that the source of later exhortations that Mingus/Dylan/whatever *are* punk?

I will cosign this along with table and sleeve, but will also note that the notion of "punk is an attitude and not a genre," while cliched, is nevertheless very true. And on some level, my whole taste in music is kind of subconsciously founded on this, which is why I have opinions like "Louis Cole is punk." Feel free to dismiss, I was never a true punk anyhow.

irrational, they were huge here in Philly— all the crusty kids wanted to sound like Submission Hold, His Hero is Gone, or Anti-Product.

And on some level, my whole taste in music is kind of subconsciously founded on this

I wouldn't say *all* of it, but a lot of it. Like, do I think there is a connection between the snide and sneering rampages of Jello and the DKs to the cool cocaine cynicism of Steely Dan? Fuck yeah there is. The 'Dan are extremely punk...that's just one example, of course, but the point rings true to me.

that's awesome to hear. cool to see one of those bands I grew up going to see at house shows and such was actually much more popular than I ever knew

I was listening to Submission Hold today, strangely enough

I had college radio punker friends who would enthusiastically proclaim that acts like Springsteen and Billy Joel were punk as fuck. We didn't always agree, but I can see it, at least with Springsteen. One of those guys is now my brother in law so the arguments have lasted and evolved over the years.

always thought that punk is one of the most aesthetically conservative (resistant to change, highly deferential to its own traditions) and minimalist (three chords, four-four, guitar-drum-bass) music genres. i kinda like that about it, but imo it’s stolen valor when punks try to claim actually formally innovative music (mingus, steely dan)

Submission Hold was one of the best shows I've seen

They were great when I saw them, too, only once. I was 14!

Snooper are playing in Brighton in September hurrah

I think I've raved about this band before on earlier threads - Electric Cowboy Club - they haven't put out any records yet but I think they have some tracks on bandcamp or soundcloud or something - they are a local band and are fucking brilliant live so not surprising but they sold out a decent sized venue tonight despite that. best gig for a while

first band was just one guy doing a kind of Messthetics UK DIY thing, finished with a cover of Sand In My Joints by Wire, then a goth band who made an impressive racket with just a bassist with a lot of FX pedals, then Electric Cowboy Club who are like a demented Cramps-type band, with a frontman to match, complete with Charlie Feathers covers, plus a load of noise and feedback. so basically made for me

ridiculous price but I am going to see Cock Sparrer next weekend and am v pleased about it

This Bandcamp Friday, I finally bought the G.U.N. album from last July, which I liked a lot (and frankly think is way better than the "up the middle 80s USHC" pitch suggests) (https://sorrystaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/g-u-n). Also Lamictal's Hard Pill to Swallow, which I don't think is great per se but splits the difference between ugly and mean and eggy and springy in a way that I find irresistible (https://lamictal.bandcamp.com/album/hard-pill-to-swallow).

I saw Cock Sparrer tonight. Occasionally I wonder how come out of all the oi bands they can consistently sell out big venues while the likes of the Cockney Rejects have to play venues that hold a few hundred people. Then I see them and remember that it's because they're fucking awesome.

They have a new album out this week which they say is their last and it's pretty good but their previous one Forever is much better than a punk album by people in their late 60s gas any right to be

Going to see Vacuous/Knifedoutofexistence/Hellscape/Healing Wound tomorrow, think I will take earplugs to that one

god I love this dude

Download includes all releases listed on cassette. If you do the math this is the single greatest deal in financial history

https://hiimbilliam.bandcamp.com/album/billiam-fucks-around-and-finds-out-boring-old-tape-comp

(all previously released stuff)

nick sakes of dazzling killmen, colassemite, sicbay has a new band upright forms, new songs sounds great

https://uprightforms.bandcamp.com/album/blurred-wires

Framtid set from the Damage Is Done weekender I went to in March is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjkhq4cuw1U

woo hoo I think I'm going to see Stiff Little Fingers tonight!

#oldpunks

I saw Medway garage legends Ye Ascoyne D'Ascoynes tonight, they put out 1 7" single on Billy Childish's Hangman records in 1992. Good things come to those who wait

I saw Stiff Little Fingers in 2008, tbh they weren't that great, hope it was good though

going later this evening, I am a little dubious but hey I will prob never get the chance again

doors open in 3 hours

They didn't even play Gotta Getaway wtf is that about

yah I have been warned in advance:

"Though focused on their new material, they always play the old favorites at gigs."

aside from the obvious 1st album cuts I would love to hear "At The Edge" or especially "Doesn't Make It Alright"

https://wowhall.org/event/stiff-little-fingers/

Xp both bangers

OK that was fucking great, they played everything mentioned above and more, the new songs didn't suck, band was tight, good sound, packed crowd in a 300-person venue

as soon as "Suspect Device" kicked in, myself and a woman at least my age to my left went down immediately from pit madness, good times

Late night thoughts of an old punk after seeing Stiff Little Fingers in 2024:

I didn’t really hear much advance hype for this show, maybe I missed Instagram chatter, but it became clear as the day drew closer that this was a must see.

Like lots of other kids, i had my brain fried by “Alternative Ulster” back in the day, it remains one of the finest moments of incandescent punk protest to be put on record, by people who were living the words they sang. I love those first three albums, they hold up. (OK, really it’s the first one and the 3rd one, if there are any diehard Go For It fans out there I don’t know them).

Before I even went to the show, I was feeling that special high that one gets when you are fully aware that you are part of a community - I tried out a new restaurant (Yardy, for locals) and it turned out that I knew the bartender and a waiter already. Had some unbelievably great West Indies dishes, plus rum cocktails.

I had planned on just buying a door ticket, but it turned out that one of my oldest friends had a spare ticket. He lives here in town with me, although we both grew up in Virginia in the 80s. So it was him, me, his wife (a Eugene native and OG punk rocker), and their daughter’s fiance, her high school sweetheart but now it’s been almost a decade. The daughter herself had bailed, I was the beneficiary. I remember her being born, now I am going to her wedding, these are the kind of landmark events I think about all the time these days, the connections of community.

It turns out that Jake Burns had all that on his mind as well. During their (incendiary, awesome) set, he repeatedly returned to the themes of aging while still moving forward. They never thought the band would last more than a few years, yet here they are, in a packed room, with people singing along, 47 years later. At one point Jake talks about seeing The Clash for the first time, and I reflect that there are probably only a few people in the packed hall who ever even saw them - I saw one of their last US shows almost by chance in late 1982, when I had just turned 16. It makes me think of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez concept of how nobody really dies until the last person that remembers them from real life dies.

Before SLF took the stage, I was front and center with a bunch of other folks my age (i.e. old). About 10-15 seconds into their opening track “Suspect Device”, when the whole band kicks in, the pit went nuts and I got knocked off my feet (and on my ass) to my left, taking down another woman who was also around my age. Immediately, many hands reached for us to get us back up, and honestly this has always been a part of every punk show I’ve ever been to, maybe I’m spoiled by living in college towns all my life but the support has always been there, it manifests in many other ways as well.

Their whole set was great, I got to take it in from a few vantage points, even got back in the pit for “At The Edge” (the first song I ever heard/loved by them, thanks Spud). I kept seeing people I knew in the audience. By the time they finished the 1st encore song “Barbed Wire Love” even the toughest crusty guys were swooning like doo-wop soda counter pretty boys (which Jake commented on, to his credit).

And then we get to “Alternative Ulster”, their statement of purpose. Played by a guy who is clearly feeling his mortality, as am I, especially after the death of Steve Albini who was like 5 years older than me. I sing along at the top of my lungs, as does a much younger woman behind me, while a kid to my left who is maybe 10-11 years old watches the band intently, taking it all in. The memories continue through generations. I wonder if this kid will remember this SLF show 42 years from now the same way I remember The Clash in 1982. Punk is community at its heart, but yes also ritual and remembrance.

“And they say they're a part of you
And that's not true you know
They say they've got control of you
And that's a lie you know
They say you will never be free”

Great post, thanks sleeve.

more Billiam ... love this:

https://hiimbilliam.bandcamp.com/album/full-of-spots

yeah that one fuckin rules

glad you had a great night, Sleeve. had to miss them for the first time here (not that there have been that many chances in the past).

count me as a huge Go For it Fan, definitely ahead of the third for me (which I also love).

I was away and missed SLF show in Baltimore near me. Saw on Facebook that tour is billed as their final American tour. Oh well. Jake is living in the US these days.

yo UK folks

JUDY AND THE JERKS - Hattiesburg, MS / Atlanta, GA
SHITTY LIFE - Parma, ITALY

WHOEVER WINS, WE LOSE

~ SUMMER 2024 SHITTY LIFE / JUDY TOUR ~

07 JUNE - NYC, NEW YORK - Oh Bondage, Up Yours Fest*
09 JUNE - BRISTOL - ENGLAND - The Exchange *
10 JUNE - SHEFFIELD - ENGLAND - Delicious Clam *
11 JUNE - LEEDS - ENGLAND - Mabgate Bleach *
12 JUNE - LONDON - ENGLAND - Shacklewell Arms *
14 JUNE - ITALY - PADOVA - Yucca Fest
15 JUNE - SLOVENIA - ILIRSKA BISTRICA - MKNZ
16 JUNE - CROATIA - ZAGREB - Club Attack
17 JUNE - SERBIA - BELGRAD - Akab Okretnica
18 JUNE - HUNGARY - BUDAPEST - Kripta
19 JUNE - AUSTRIA - WIEN - Rhiz
20 JUNE - CZECH REP. - PRAGUE - Dragon H Fest
21 JUNE - POLAND - POBIEDNA - Izero Hardcore Fest
22 JUNE - GERMANY - BURGHAUSEN - Burgkellar Bar
23 JUNE - ITALY - TRENTO - Smash Fest!
*NO SHITTY LIFE

https://earthgirltapes.bandcamp.com/album/split

I am tempted by that one, next few weeks are already v busy though so not sure a mid-week trip to London is on the cards that week

NEW GOBS SINGLE

https://thegobs.bandcamp.com/album/pop-off

new Bootlicker K I C K S A S S

https://boot-licker.bandcamp.com/album/1000-yd-stare

"kicksass"

thought i had a space in there

oh well

killer. can we talk about how essential Will Killingsworth seems to be to this whole scene?

a/k/a "Dill Picklesworth" according to The Gobs

i actually *would* like to talk about that. i know nothing about him ... who is he and what role does he play?

he does all the mastering for these bands, idk who he is but his name pops up like "a porky prime cut" used to on cool records of all sorts

https://www.discogs.com/artist/495765-Will-Killingsworth?superFilter=Technical

almost 2000 credits for "Technical"!

the only other major vector I am aware of is the "jimmy" youtube channel, as per that egg vs chain meme

Haven't heard any studio stuff, but caught Bootlicker live a couple weeks backs and they did indeed kick metric tons of ass

Goner Fest lineup: https://goner-records.com/pages/gonerfest

Feels more stylistically varied than previous years, but I may be wrong about that.

Would love to go sometime ... not sure this is the year.

xps the UK equivalent would probably be Daniel Husayn, seems like half the records I buy have "mastered by Daniel Husayn at North London Bomb Factory" on them

Killingsworth was the guitarist in Orchid, and runs Clean Plate...I feel like he also used to do a zine back in the late 90s, when he was at Hampshire College, but searching is a little hard. I used to order records from him all the time, and obv Orchid are like an all-time band

The Sleeveens are at Gonerfest: the record is excellent, and their lead guitarist is an impressive Wilko Johnson style string whacker

I hadn't heard of Repent (from Chicago) but they're playing here this weekend so I looked 'em up. They're good! Loud and fast and rude.

https://repent666.bandcamp.com/track/y-cant-god-die-3

calling Col. Poo! this is funny. The Chisel played in Boston a few weeks back. watch what happens at 34:39. that was the end of it. a friend of mine was deejaying the show and he was bummed because he brought lots of heavy hitter 7-inches for after The Chisel. but they evacuated the place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU5Gu8cFHNE

hahaha amazing, epic stagedive fail there

haha yeah I saw that on their instagram when it happened

https://gijinx.bandcamp.com/track/change-the-world-demo

after the demise of Static Shock Weekend, was wondering if someone else would step in and put something on like it, looks like they are:

https://dice.fm/event/2wlq7m-oh-what-fun-5th-sep-new-river-studios-london-tickets

slightly smaller scale as half of SSW was at New River Studios and the other half would be at bigger venues but looks cool

https://canalirreal.bandcamp.com/album/someone-elses-dance

Newish band featuring Los Crudos' Martin Sorrondeguy and members of Sin Orden, good Chicago stuff

nick sakes' (from dazzling killman/colossamite/sicbay) new band upright forms has a new album coming out on skin graft, sounding great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgHExmbGEFA

amazing photos of punks young & old, together in Bloomington In at a street dance
https://bloomingtonian.com/2024/07/01/gallery-street-dance-bloomington-rewind-saturday-in-bloomington-indiana/

bonus shredding:
https://velocityhc.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2023

good afternoon,

i am enjoying the spiky and ever-so-slightly funky/no-wave-y sound of the rolex side of this rolex/grimly forming split

https://rolex.bandcamp.com/album/grimly-forming-rolex-split

also necron 9's flower children, FFO goblin cassette sounds. it may not be outstanding in its field, but it's out standing in its field, if you get my (humid, bad-smelling) drift.

https://unlawfulassembly.bandcamp.com/album/necron-9-flower-children-tape

Been playing this one today, nasty raw crusty shit that sounds like it was recorded in a fucking garbage can, my fave type of punk tbh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x4ET7xJjKA

their demo and the tracks above are name your price here:
https://arson6.bandcamp.com/

nasty raw crusty shit that sounds like it was recorded in a fucking garbage can

yes please

new Subdued LP is good if you want some bleak anarcho-punk.

some other 2024 faves so far:

Kriegshog - Love and Revenge
Pissed Jeans - Half Divorced
Vampire - What Seems Forever Can Be Broken
Planet On A Chain - Culture Of Death

and EPs by Violin, JJ & The A's, Mutated Void, Brux

Extreme Noise Records here in Mpls is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a bunch of shows and they are getting Urinals and Zero Boys to play

URINALS be still my fucking heart.

Citric Dummies aren't afraid of making music with a powerful message

https://citricdummies.bandcamp.com/track/look-out-world-im-eatin-arbys

new Media Puzzle "LP" (14:21) totally rules, god I love this shit

https://mediapuzzle.bandcamp.com/album/strategic-living

lol

Egg Norton
Bass and Vox

Blob Mold
Guitar and Vox

Grandt Shardt
Drums and Vox

lmao

two new HÄGÖL tracks, love them so much

https://hagol.bandcamp.com/album/dirt

also digging this Tunisian band, new to me, much more metal

https://znous.bandcamp.com/album/znousland-4

I'm at a hardcore/punk weekender in London, I guess this is the replacement for the Static Shock Weekend which finished last year. It's been really good so far. Highlights were Malignant Order, Can Kicker and Pyrex last night, and Dräumar, Nekra and Stingray tonight. Tomorrow is an all-dayer with 11 bands playing and 7 more at an after party which I am v unlikely to make it to

I forgot La Lullies were a last minute addition last night, they were great too

Oh it's Les Lullies not La I see they're playing in Brighton on Sunday but will be in London again then

Sept 16th is RMFC, Gee Tee, The Gobs, and Nick Normal in Portland, I'm gonna go

Snooper are playing in Brighton next week, I haven't got a ticket because I might need a break after this weekend (and am already seeing A R Kane next week) so will have to see how I feel on Monday

I didn't make the 4th day of the Oh What Fun weekender but Saturday was great, I saw 10 bands and they were all good, highlights probably Assistert Sjølmord (same singer as Draümar, total force of energy), Turbo (last show unfortunately) and Traidora but Piñén, Flower, Gimic and Catastrophe were all great too

tonight I saw Snooper who were also great and the crowd was really up for it too, loads of energy

there's a hardcore weekender in Brighton next weekender which I'll probably go to the Friday of at least because Plastics are playing and I love them, so September is looking pretty good for punk rock tbh. Melt-Banana and Mudhoney the week after that

yo alpine static, if u are going to Swan Dive tonight I have a hot pink Eno/Fripp t-shirt on

pretty psyched about this show (see my xxxp)

i wish i could, but i cannot tonight, unfortunately. have fun, tho, sleeve!

omg that was so life-affirming, more tomorrow

holy shit that show was great. The Gobs absolutely killed it doing like a 15-minute set, Nick Normal was very good, better than last time, and the two Australian bands (R.M.F.C. and Gee Tee) were awesome, just totally life-affirming stuff. Current RMFC lineup is drummer/singer/leader wit guitar, bass, electric 12-string (!!) and sax, it sounded incredible

i still haven't listened the Gobs, i should probably fix that

went to a hardcore gig tonight, proper karate in the pit type HC mostly, was fun though, was in an old church which meant the sound was a bit off in places but we found a spot to the side where it sounded good and enough of a buffer we didn't get our noses broken by moshers (I did see a guy leaving the pit with blood all over his ear, maybe an earring got pulled out or something)

fuck man I am still high from the Gee Tee show, completely obsessed with them now (and Tee Vee Repairmann, and 1-800-Mikey, the Sydney scene just keeps on giving, sign me up for one enthusiastic late pass)

variable sound, but the performance is on fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHWRuknPT_Y

Fidlar comeback is not good

my pal's videos from the 9/16 show (Gobs, RMFC, Gee Tee) are here:
http://www.youtube.com/@djsleeve9571

this was so fucking life-affirming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdquOtTQ4hs

"The politics of rock ’n’ roll, in England or America or anywhere else, is that a whole lot of kids want to be fried out of their skins by the most scalding propulsion they can find, for a night they can pretend is the rest of their lives, and whether the next day they go back to work in shops or boredom on the dole or American TV doldrums in Mom ’n’ Daddy’s living room nothing can cancel the reality of that night in the revivifying flames when for once if only then in your life you were blasted outside of yourself and the monotony which defines most life anywhere at any time, when you felt supra-alive, when you supped on lightning and nothing else in the realms of the living or dead mattered at all"

-Lester Bangs, writing about The Clash

People seemed to enjoy the last Black Button record I posted here, so just noting that they have a new one. Chances are if you liked the last one you will enjoy it. They now have Brendan Reichhardt from Hologram and a million other DC/Richmond bands on drums.

https://dynasticyellowstarlabel.bandcamp.com/album/internal-life

Oddly enough just remembered that Black Button is playing with the Gee Tee / R.M.F.C. / Split System tour in Richmond this week.

u should go, highest recommendations

Not sure I will make it, but I will certainly not be happy about it. Just difficult timing-wise but I have no doubts it will be a great show.

damn, adding Split System to that bill is crazy

all praise be to Gonerfest

OK Split System rules, they are one of the standouts on this new benefit release organized by the Goblin Daycare crew, back in January the first of these comps was my gateway into this scene

https://palestinesolidaritycompilation.bandcamp.com/album/palestine-solidarity-compilation-vol-2

Physical here (doesn't include Bandcamp download, I guess): https://swimmingfaithrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/palestine-solidarity-compilation-cassette-vol-2

yeah same as the last one, you email proof of a donation to get the digital D/L/ code

I also really dig The Scaners (sic) track, whoever they are

I have a Scaners record. French band on Dirty Water records. I like them

yeah I was checking out the LP from earlier this year and it's hot, I dig it

absolutely loving this, keyboard-heavy eggy Australian stuff in same vein as Gee Tee

https://godlessamericarecords.bandcamp.com/album/pp6

this band is buzzin', and they kinda rule:

https://thebugclub.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-intricate-inner-workings-of-the-system

mmmm ... "kinda rule" might be strong. more like "they sound promising"

postman came today with the (v limited) reissue of 4 Apostles 7"s - https://www.discogs.com/release/32159076-The-Apostles-There-Can-Be-No-Spectators

this is some classic stuff and originals are v hard to find. nice reissue, comes with reprint of all 3 issues of the Pigs For Slaughter fanzine and some stickers/patches etc. on Grow Your Own records, local label run by people from Anthrax (UK) & Hagar The Womb

very cool!

talking of limited reissues, The Swankys - The Very Best Of Hero was officially reissued on vinyl for the first time in September and I seem to have missed it. absolute noise punk classic, really hope some UK distros get some restocks in

still need to get the Antisect - In Darkness There Is No Choice reissue and the next Rudimentary Peni reissue (Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric) is out today, it's all going on this autumn lol

Not sure this is exactly the right thread for this but there doesn't seem to be a rolling noise rock thread and these threads used to be "punk and underground rock". Anyway the new Couch Slut absolutely bangs

In actually relevant to this thread news I saw Redd Kross tonight and they started their encore with Annette's Got The Hits, S&M Party and Standing In Front Of Poseur

love it, I def saw them do Annette's Got The Hits when they played here with The Melvins in late 2019

I made a "history of egg punk" mix (sorry CP still no Lumpy)

https://soundcloud.com/sleeve-the-dj/egg-punk-a-subjective-history-2014-2023

I'm going to put Lumpy on now. I have ordered the Swankys reissue and the latest Rudimentary Peni reissue. it's the one with Papas Adrianus looping all the way through it which does make it a slightly challenging listen but hey it wouldn't be Rudimentary Peni otherwise

also got the new Kriegshog album which is one of my albums of the year for sure

one of the things I love about La Vida Es Un Mus records is they will reissue the most extreme noisy hardcore and anarcho punk and then put out Dolly Mixture records (I saw Rachel Love from Dolly Mixture a couple of weeks ago, she played How Come You're Such A Hit With The Boys, Jane? which is one of my favourite songs of all time). this year they've reissued the Twelve Cubic Feet - Straight Out The Fridge 10" which I think is kind of anarcho-indiepop. possibly my favourite crossover episode, unless it's anarcho-goth, talking of which, Brigandage are playing in Brighton next year, who is even in Brigandage in 2025?

I also did get the Antisect LP reissue a few weeks ago. that makes me very happy. I got a load of reissues of stuff that's been on my wantlist for in some cases over 20 years. Siege - Drop Dead, Bl'ast - Power of Expression, NoMeansNo - Wrong, Gang Green - Skate to Hell/Sold Out 7"s, I should already own all that stuff but so hard to find for reasonable prices in this country

is there a new lumpy and the dumpers album?

oh sorry no, that was just directed at Sleeve because he made an egg punk mix that doesn't have Lumpy & The Dumpers on it lol. sorry for the confusion

DC’s Ekko Astral making some best of lists

digging this new Dru The Drifter

https://druthedrifter.bandcamp.com/album/the-moon-walker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb5qPAkb98U

my soundcloud mix of 2024 faves

https://soundcloud.com/sleeve-the-dj/2024-best-of

1 New Coke - Politician 02 Cherry Cheeks - You Don't.flac 03 Todd Briefly - Suffocate.flac 04 Busted Head Racket - Poor No More.flac 05 Tombeau - Asbestos 06 Rude Television - I Want to Believe 07 Billiam - ASD 08 the gobs - my baby is a UFO 09 Grazia - Speed Freak 10 AIRSOFT - CAMRY 11 DRUNK MUMS - Apocalypse 12 JJ And The A's - The Runner 13 GEE TEE - Workin 4 The FBI 14 Busted Head Racket - Mind Your Own Business (Delta 5) 15 Busted Head Racket - Doo Wop 16 Goblin Daycare - Doing My Part 17 Snooper - I Think I’m Falling In Luv Again (DEVO) 18 Itchy & The Nits - Nudie Beach 19 JUDY AND THE JERKS - WORTH A SHOT 20 NTSC PAL - J.D.R. 21 the gobs - RNRRFIL 22 Snooper - Online 23 Ismatic Guru - Heroes 24 Abi Ooze - Of Power 25 GURK - ME AND MY FRIEND 26 media puzzle - Garage Sale 27 media puzzle - Strategic Living.flac 28 Billiam - Hit The Brakes 29 HÄGÖL - DIRT 30 HÄGÖL - DEATH MERGE 31 SATANIC TOGAS - ILLUSIONS 32 Lothario - G.E.N.E. 33 Prison Affair - Celebrate Your Death 34 Alien Nosejob - Shrapnel Blast 35 Bughunt - Making Friends 36 Snooper - RELAY 37 The Scaners - Black Hole 38 Citric Dummies - I Can't Stand The Weekend 39 Split System - Climbing (Live in Stockholm) 40 The Gobs - My Brain is Slipping Thru My Skull 41 POWER PANTS - Unscanable 42 1-800 Mikey - Welcome Back 43 Rude Television - Digital Frustration 44 Dru The Drifter - My Ears Are Ringing

thanks sleeve!

new year, new thread: rolling punk rock 2025