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!

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