While pretty much every modern punk band is influenced by Agent Orange and The Dead Kennedys, not too many carry the banner successfully blending surf vibes with ferocious 80s hardcore. Yet New Jersey’s Night Birds do exactly that, all without sounding completely derivative and managing to keep things fresh. Celebrating their 10 year anniversary as […]
Night Birds – The Other Side Of Darkness (For fans of Dead Kennedys, DI, Adolescents)
If there’s one band that have been getting a decent amount of hype these days, it’s Night Birds… and I can’t believe I’ve been sleeping on them for so long, even after I’ve seen them and had them recommended to me countless of times by multiple friends. After listening to The Other Side Of Darkness […]
Guantanamo Baywatch – Chest Crawl (For fans of Shannon And The Clams, Dry Feet, The Cramps)
Today we’re bringing you something a little bit different. I’m not the biggest fan of surf music, but I recognize the importance of surf rock as far as it’s influence of punk (after all, The Ramones pretty much took the Beach Boys and made it faster and more distorted). There aren’t many surf punk bands […]