More punk rock than you can (proverbially) shake a stick at.
New Brunswick, New Jersey’s recently reunited Sticks and Stones isn’t very well known outside of the Garden State, but chances are you’ve heard references, influences, or songs by the band even though they’ve been broken up since the 90s. Vocalist Pete Ventanonio went on to form the World Inferno Friendship Society under the moniker Jack […]
Fuck you! Get pumped! Milwaukee based pop-punk dudes Direct Hit recently teamed up with New Orleans melodic hardcore punks PEARS to release Human Movement, a split just released earlier last week on Fat Wreck. Any reader of this site knows I’m a pretty big fan of both of these bands, with PEARS being one of […]
Fun fact: when I was just a pissed off youth in early high school right around when Today’s Empire, Tomorrow’s Ashes came out in 2001, I wrote to Propagandhi asking them to please come play a show in the northeast US, to which they essentially said that one of these days, they will. It wasn’t […]
I have a confession to make: I’ve been unapologetically listening to Andrew W.K since I was in high school and yet somehow never managed to see him play live. The closest I got was when he came around Philly to play I Get Wet in it’s entirety a few years back, but I opted to […]
If I had to name the most anticipated album release of 2017, for me it was without a doubt Propagandhi’s Victory Lap. These Canadian punks have been one of my favorite and personally influential bands since I started listening to them during my early punk days many moons ago when I was a teenager. With […]
Unless your name is Me First And The Gimme Gimmes* I’m incredibly skeptical of any album consisting completely of punk covers. It always seems like a cop-out or a cash grab. So even though I’m a pretty big Teenage Bottlerocket fan, when I first heard about the Wyoming punks releasing Stealing The Covers on Fat […]
Last night, after an incredibly long weekend in Atlantic City and running on minimal sleep, I headed out to my favorite Philly dive The Barbary for a late show to see influential grindcore band Phobia. I got to the Barbary right towards the end of Coffin Dust’s set, who if you dig metal is definitely […]
I was fucking around on my guitar for the first time in months, trying to play some Kill Your Idols (did I mention how terrible I am at guitar?) when I kept defaulting to their song “I Told You So.” Since I’ve been on such a huge kick of their split with Good Riddance lately, […]
A few weeks ago, I headed out to Philly’s intimate dive The Barbary to catch Ratkicker who was opening for Die Choking with a pretty stacked lineup. It’s been about 3 years since I’ve seen these Philly punks, and since they were up first I made sure to get there nice and early. Ratkicker: It’s […]
So quick note before I start the post: the guitarist of Censors and Barnaby Jones (Justin) is a pretty big Twitch user and live-streamed the show, which was a going away party for him as he is moving. Censors starts at around 2:05, and Barnaby Jones starts around 2:55. Watch live video from HCJustin on […]