Rolling punk/non-indie underground 2017

Always liked these rolling threads but the last one (2015) seems to have died. So here goes!

NEW THOUGHTS OF IONESCO: https://corpseflowerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/thoughts-of-ionesco-skar-cymbals

I hope they tour because there's no way I can get to Detroit for their reunion show this weekend. Some friends are opening for them, so anyone in the Detroit area reading this: GO.

Timely as I'm just off to see Lebenden Toten which I'm fucking psyched about and also saw announced today that Siege are playing London in September although I dunno what that's gonna be like, who's even in the band now?

Xetas got the furious edge-of-indie punk sound going, a la Husker Du, Fucked Up and Hot Snakes

https://xetas.bandcamp.com/ "> https://xetas.bandcamp.com/

I haven't shilled about this record in awhile I guess

https://stnnng.bandcamp.com/album/veterans-of-pleasure

I hate sex

https://ihatesex.bandcamp.com/album/world-of-grief

The whole Thoughts of Ionesco EP I linked above is now available online and it ruuuuules

punky and punk-adjacent stuff i have enjoyed in 2017:
blank square "animal i" https://blanksquared.bandcamp.com/releases
iss "(endless pussyfooting)" https://iss2012.bandcamp.com/album/endless-pussyfooting
otoboke beaver "love is short" ep https://otobokebeaver.bandcamp.com/
taiwan housing project "veblen death mask" https://taiwanhousingproject.bandcamp.com/album/veblen-death-mask
uranium club "all of the naturals" https://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/all-of-them-naturals
and the urochromes anthology

The Messthetics: new band w/ Brendan Canty & Joe Lally from Fugazi + Tashi Dorji (who I had never heard of before, sorry Tashi). Instrumental and syncopated, some guitar noodling, pretty good! Not really Fugazi-ish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29W61tW8dLE

Tashi Dorji is beloved in the post Fahey guitar improv weirdo underground, this is an exciting development!

Oh sweet, I wasn't aware. Can definitely hear his talent in that area in these live videos. There doesn't seem to be any studio material out there, would love to hear some.

Melkbelly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJoRmdYTo0

I think I saw this on a Paste list or something like that. Shame.

Good feedback intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqkUz8iikCE

I probably just happen to be in the mood for this post-day-after-leaving-work-early-with-fucked-sinuses and will lose interest in a few days.

The final release by the band I was in is now available for pre-order

https://forgeagainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stnnng-child-bite

Stream the STNNNG/Child Bite split! http://newnoisemagazine.com/premiere-stnnng-child-bite-split-ep/

because what's more punk underground than spotify, right

ILM's 2017 Rolling Punk Thread Spotify Playlist

I made a list of punk-ish things I liked in 2017:

albums
anti-sex un mejor futuro
bad breeding divide
barcelona un ultimo ultrasonido nacio y murio en barcelona
career suicide machine response
cock sparrer forever
cravats dustbin of sound
downtown boys cost of living
drunk in hell s/t
eel night parade of 100 demons
endless grinning skulls risus sardonicus
exit order seed of hysteria
exotica musique exotique #02
glue s/t
gSp s/t
haram when you have won, you have lost
heavy metal smash criticism smash optimism smash arachnophobia
impalers cellar dweller
lebenden toten mind parasites
limp wrist facades
lumpy & the dumpers those pickled fuckers
permission contagious life
pissed jeans why love now
PMS 84 easy way out
prom nite dancing to this beat
sial s/t
straightjacket nation s/t
una bestia controlable metamorfosi

tapes/demos/downloads/etc
cuntroaches s/t EP
gutter knife demo
imposter demo
italia 90 s/t EP
nekra demo
nihilistic fit absolute discipline
rock you fit into me like a hook

singles
anxiety wild life 7"
enzyme abuse of power 7"
F.I.T.S. feeding illness to society 7"
foreseen power intoxication 7"
game who will play 7" flexi
glorious? neverending butchery 7"
idiota civilizzato la vita silenziosa 7"
isotope soap pinata chaos 12"
katastrof s/t 7"
kombat in death we are all the same 7"
long knife sewers of babylon 7"
lubricant slave driver 7"
mozart nasty 7"
orden mundial porque las drogas son veneno 7"
rat cage caged like rats 7"
rixe bapteme du feu 7"
sadist beauty fades 7"
strul foredrar ju fest 7"
tarantula s/t 7"
urchin peace sign 7"
urochromes night bully 7"
xylitol is toxic to pigs 7"

reissues
cheetah chrome motherfuckers the furious era 1979/1987
life's blood hardcore AD 1988
morbid opera collection
no defences released
razor boys s/t
screaming dead songs 82-85
trummerfrauen s/t
va bloodstains across virginia
wretched libero e selvaggio

I want to plug Dazey and the Scouts' Maggot, which is def less hardcore than most stuff discussed here but is a fantastic, funny, and emotional queer rock record I'm angry I learned of too late to nominate for the 77.

argh sorry about formatting let's try again

albums
anti-sex - un mejor futuro
bad breeding - divide
barcelona - un ultimo ultrasonido nacio y murio en barcelona
career suicide - machine response
cock sparrer - forever
cravats - dustbin of sound
downtown boys - cost of living
drunk in hell - s/t
eel - night parade of 100 demons
endless grinning skulls - risus sardonicus
exit order - seed of hysteria
exotica - musique exotique #02
glue - s/t
gSp - s/t
haram - when you have won, you have lost
heavy metal - smash criticism smash optimism smash arachnophobia
impalers - cellar dweller
lebenden toten - mind parasites
limp wrist - facades
lumpy & the dumpers - those pickled fuckers
permission - contagious life
pissed jeans - why love now
PMS 84 - easy way out
prom nite - dancing to this beat
sial - s/t
straightjacket nation - s/t
una bestia controlable - metamorfosi

tapes/demos/downloads/etc
cuntroaches - s/t EP
gutter knife - demo
imposter - demo
italia 90 - s/t EP
nekra - demo
nihilistic fit - absolute discipline
rock - you fit into me like a hook

singles
anxiety - wild life 7"
enzyme - abuse of power 7"
F.I.T.S. - feeding illness to society 7"
foreseen - power intoxication 7"
game - who will play 7" flexi
glorious? - neverending butchery 7"
idiota civilizzato - la vita silenziosa 7"
isotope soap - pinata chaos 12"
katastrof - s/t 7"
kombat - in death we are all the same 7"
long knife - sewers of babylon 7"
lubricant - slave driver 7"
mozart - nasty 7"
orden mundial - porque las drogas son veneno 7"
rat cage - caged like rats 7"
rixe - bapteme du feu 7"
sadist - beauty fades 7"
strul - foredrar ju fest 7"
tarantula - s/t 7"
urchin - peace sign 7"
urochromes - night bully 7"
xylitol - is toxic to pigs 7"

reissues
cheetah chrome motherfuckers - the furious era 1979/1987
life's blood - hardcore AD 1988
morbid opera - collection
no defences - released
razor boys - s/t
screaming dead - songs 82-85
trummerfrauen - s/t
va - bloodstains across virginia
wretched - libero e selvaggio

dunno if this belongs but NEW HOT SNAKES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrR50b7-OSQ

I found out the other day that the band I used to be in our second record is still available for free on our bandcamp, I guess we never switched off, but we broke up so I figure have it at it

https://stnnng.bandcamp.com/album/fake-fake

new band out of montreal, so good https://bodybreakmtl.bandcamp.com/releases

i recommend this chicago band if you're into the "chicago sound" of '90s punk/indie a la shellac/jesus lizard

https://sewingneedle.bandcamp.com/

I go and see old punk reunions so you don't have to. My public service announcement is that the Crippens who are the current incarnation of Doctor & the Crippens, late 80s UKHC, are definitely worth seeing in 2018

^what this thread is for. thx Colonel

unfortunately found out about this record bc the person who made it died (rip), really great wide-open western-ey guitar + slide guitar jams, spacemen 3 x link wray or something. posting it here cuz it'z on siltbreeze https://yuzoiwata.bandcamp.com/album/daylight-moon

this was written up by kim kelly in noisey, fucking rules

https://woodlandtomb.bandcamp.com/album/woodland-tomb-ep

doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in this kind of music on ILM these days, but I made a list for 2018 anyway:

Albums
BB & The Blips - Shame Job
Beta Blockers - Stiff Prescription
Beta Boys - Late Nite Acts
Candy - Good To Feel
Constant Mongrel - Living In Excellence
Cruelster - Riot Boys
Dark Thoughts - At Work
Destripados - Gutless
Ex - 27 Passports
Hank Wood & The Hammerheads - S/T
Idiota Civilizzato - S/T
Life Fucker - Z
Natterers - Head In Threatening Attitude
No Love - Choke On It
Ojo Por Ojo - S/T
Permission - Drawing Breath Through A Hole In The Ground
S.H.I.T. - What Do You Stand For
Snob - S/T
Sunshine Ward - Nuclear Ambitions
Thee Dagger Debs - S/T
Tipex - S/T
V/A - Raise Your Voice Joyce: Contemporary Shouts From Contemporary Voices
Zodd - Operationally Ready Dead

Singles/EPs
(Split) Cold Meat + Ubik - S/T 7"
Arms Race - The Beast 7"
B.E.T.O.E. - Totalitarismo Del Siglo XXI 7"
Bad Breeding - Abandonment 12"
Black Panties - Dirt From The Mop 7"
Bootlicker - Who Do You Serve 7"
Cement Shoes - A Peace Product Of The USA 7"
Child's Pose - S/T 7"
Cold Meat - Pork Sword Fever 7"
Cool Greenhouse - London 7"
Crippens - The Minnow And The Pike 12"
Deadlock - S/T 7"
Deseos Primitivos - Existir 7"
Exotica - Musique Exotique #03 7"
Fluke - Pest 7"
Fog - S/T 7"
Forra - Mostrame Lo Peor 7"
Hologram - Build Yourself Up So Many Times Only To Be Brought Down Again And Again 7"
Jellicoe & Woodbury - Fear 7"
Last Chaos - No 12"
Pious Faults - Old Thread 12"
Porvenir Oscura - Porvenir Oscuro 7"
Profoss - S/T 7"
Pure Pressure - Relampago De Furia 7"
Rat Cage - Blood On Your Boots 7"
Sial - Binasa 7"
Skeleton - Pyramid Of Skull 7"
Snor - Scandinavian Heartbreaker 7"
Stiff Love - Trouble 7"
Subdued - 4 Track Ep 7"
Suburban Homes - E.P 3 7"
Syringe - The Leash 7" Flexi
Ubik - S/T 7"
Urbanoia - Nadelos Vold 12"
Warthog - IV 7"
Wild Billy Childish & CTMF - Something's Missing Inside 7"

Tapes/Demos
BB & The Blips - Demo
No Future - Demo

Reissues
Bib - A Band In Hardcore

I am interested but this music is pretty dilettante-proof - where even to begin? What are the weirdest acts you've listed?

hmm tbh a lot of that is pretty straight-up hardcore (one might even use the word generic but I like generic hardcore so...)

I would recommend you listen to the Ex though if you don't already know them. Maybe Hank Wood & The Hammerheads, Constant Mongrel, Suburban Homes, Cool Greenhouses

Cold Meat was one of my favourite singles of the year. That Bib discography compilation was great too

Constant Mongrel sound good. They sound like Total Control! Oh wait they kind of share members with them and everything haha

iirc nobody gives the slightest shit about punk on ILM in 2019 but I have greatly enjoyed Scrap Brain who have a new album out next week (and they've been covering the Fatal Microbes which I have a huge soft spot for)

I have repped for them before here, for definite. Absolute legends.

I hate sex

https://ihatesex.bandcamp.com/album/world-of-grief

― billstevejim, Wednesday, June 28, 2017 10:28 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I should read this thread more. I loved Circle Thinking but had no idea they released another full-length in 2017, nor that they have broken up. A lot of good stuff on World of Grief too, it seems. Despite the different rhythm section, it hits a lot of the same spots.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/05/28/best-punk-on-bandcamp-may-2019

this is a cool feature. urochromes and (my pals) No Negative lps are both killer

saw this and wanted to rep my favorite Philly punk band at the moment, Soul Glo, who follow in the long philly tradition of all-black punk bands that fucking *shred*

https://soulglophl.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-lp

that rips thx

pleasure.

should mention that i have a back patch of theirs that reads "HANDS ACROSS AMERICA" that's just a flag made out of black power fists. pretty dope.

I'm digging the Bruised album from that Bandcamp May 2019 round-up.

sadistic bomb fuckers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdxNOi723bU

honestly wasn't even aware Dropdead were still together but this is fun and purchasing it helps them out of a jam

https://dropdeadhc.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2019

is there no 2019 thread?

where i can post about Civic and have everyone ignore it?

I didn't ignore it! I just listened to the Those Who No EP and liked it very much. A decent lil cover of Needle in the Camel's Eye on there too, fully appropriate. Thanks!

o cool! i've been listening to that and the New Vietnam EP and 7" fairly relentlessly. Australia really has a thing going.

that's funny cause I started listening to New Vietnam and couldn't get more than two tracks in because it was too "balls out" garagey/guitar soloy, then saw what appeared to be a different Civic on spotify, and liked Those Who No because it seemed poppier. almost can't believe they're the same band!

I think it was this thread's 2009 incarnation that got me into Eddy Current Suppression Ring for a while. good to know Melbourne's still at it!

i'm always interested in stuff that gets posted here fwiw

Fury: https://furyhc.bandcamp.com/track/angels-over-berlin

Jocko: https://jocko.bandcamp.com/track/civilized

Yarrow: https://yarrowphl.bandcamp.com/track/a-mild-circus

Paranoyds: https://theparanoyds.bandcamp.com/track/hungry-sam-2

Maneka: https://maneka.bandcamp.com/track/glazed

Uranium Club: https://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/track/flashback-arrestor

Davila 666: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS_oA7LWnHY

also from back in january: https://bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/album/promo-2019

is there no 2019 thread?

there was no 2018 thread either. tbh punk gig audiences have been steadily dwindling in London/Brighton over the past few years so not particularly surprising

not that I can complain because I often haven't bothered to post on here either.

of Bill's list I'm only aware of Fury who I don't like much and Uranium Club, who've been around a while but never quite gelled for me until that new album which I do like

I went to a hardcore all-dayer this month which was fun, had mostly newish bands playing various types of hardcore - Never, Gutter Knife, the Flex, Big Cheese, Mere Mortal, Frame of Mind

some punky stuff from 2019 I've been enjoying:

Vaaska - Inocentes Condenados 7" (absolute ripper)
Axe Rash - Axe Rash
Bad Breeding - Exiled
Briefs - Platinum Rats
Chubby & The Gang - All Along The Uxbridge Road 7"
Current Affairs - Buckle Up 7"
Diat - Positive Disintegration
the Freeze - Calling All Creatures
Game - No One Wins
Institute - Adjusting The Locks
Kaleidoscope - After The Futures
Mock Execution - Reality Attack 7"
Scab Eater - Ultra Vires
Asid - Pathetic Flesh
Disguise - Bas Fada 7"
Haram - Where Were You On 9/11 7"
Headsplitters - Headsplitters
Hygiene - Private Sector
Idiota Civilizzato - Civilta Idiota 7"
Khiis - Bezoar
Kriegshog - Paint It Black 7"
Scrap Brain - A Journey Into Madness
State Funeral - Built For Destruction 7"
Wild Billy Childish & CTMF - Last Punk Standing

I like seeing and hearing all this new stuff listed, and I love talking about punk but am sadly aging out of going to too many shows because of work and life in general.

Can we keep talking here until 2020 and start a new one then? Or just make an overall rolling thread?

That Fury album is great, esp this track

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

listened to a bit of New Vietnam by Civic this lunchtime. into this, thanks for the rec

I've only heard the first album by Fury and that was pretty generic iirc. maybe I should give this new one a go...

listened to the rest of the Civic EP and this is right up my street. never seen them mentioned before outside this thread. the system works!

I think it's previously released material, but I'm really digging this R.M.F.C. compilation:

https://erstetheketontraeger.bandcamp.com/album/ett-067-r-m-f-c-hive-volumes-1-2-lp

xp oh cool glad to hear it

that's funny cause I started listening to New Vietnam and couldn't get more than two tracks in because it was too "balls out" garagey/guitar soloy

Irony is track 3 "Satellites" and "Street Machine Dream" see them veer a little more into that poppy territory! Give it another shot when you've worn out Those Who No

New urochromes is so good. ‘rumshpringa’ is my jam

not really crusty enough to hang with this thread, but definitely not emo, so whatever: I love Chubby and the Gang's Speed Kills, easily the most purely fun punk record I've heard in a long time

I haven't heard the album yet but the single was good.

but they totally count for this thread! there's no "must be crust punk" rule! I mean they are on Static Shock records

I have now listened to the Chubby & The Gang album and yeah it's a good one

also got tickets to the Thursday and Saturday of Static Shock Weekend. but not the Friday, which is when Chubby & The Gang are playing. probably can't really go out 3 nights in a row anyway. if I did decide I absolutely must have more punk rock that weekend the Subhumans are playing in Hastings on the Friday anyway, although that will probably sell out in advance. I did note that Sadistic Bomb Fuckers who flopson posted upthread (haven't actually heard them) are playing on the Saturday though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGO0yCmnbEs

everyone itt should love knock over city

i love that screengrab