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Hey there!
I took some time off. Xmas holidays.
By the time every site post their annual awards I'm still amazed by the joy punk rock continues to bring me every day. Another year has passed, so what? I have no peculiar resolutions, I would not quit vegetarianism, still love my girlfriend like the first day, continue to buy records and ride my bike. I'll have some drinks and some rehearsals with friends... nothing extraordinary, fight daily routine with little things that makes happy.
Take care all. Happy fucking new year.
Go packers.


Non official vid.

Yo shithead

A real fuck you to the shithead (internet genius uh) who stole me, a grand from my bank account to buy fucking USELESS things. Its not even worth it. Dipshit.

Echoes of Harper's ferry- Never forget

A record filled with with passion and honesty. I'm not getting tired of gruff punk acts, but sometimes bands can be outta line. I find in this record well crafted songs, simple-efficient chords and raw vocals line, great hooks that caught me quick in looping the 12 tracks effort. -Only the acoustic song kinds of bored me- EOHF are from Cleveland and on lock and collective (same as Captain we're sinking). If you want references i'll say smallbrownbike/bannerpilot/lawrence arms/punkrock.. Apart from trying each time to relate to other bands, I'll say that this record is just worth it, it fucking kicked my ass.

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Imadethismistake- its okay

A little bit of folk punk. Kyle Williams has been playing acoustic tunes under the name imadethismistake since 2002. in 2007 he started playing with an electric band.
Defiance Ohio meets Bear vs Shark meets the moutain goats. something like that.

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Hard girls- Hello

Hard girls are a three piece band from San Jose, Ca. Does it have something to do with their sound. Sometimes i do believe there's a link.
I find in this ep different influences, from the hot water music inspiration of Quinceanara, to the danceable Lazer parade to some classic indie punk rock mixed with enthusiastic singing parts flirting with folk punk stuff. And I like the cover.

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Comadre- a wolf ticket

My dear friend Salt'n'peppa, aka Vince put this record on and I'm saying: "what's that?" (well I'm always asking when I've never heard of before-or forget-)So he says its the last Comadre record. I digged the thing and I now pick up the words from punknews because its exactly how i felt about it:
Comadre was fast, sporadic and angry. It all just seemed like a giant mess, but over time the mess began to make sense, with the intensity opening up to great hooks and melodies that range from fist-pounding to danceable. All of this and more is encapsulated in their most recent effort, A Wolf Ticket.
Ranging from Refused to Kid dynamite!I fucking love it, Jenny!

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Timeshares- 3 songs ep

One more band from the NY state! They'll play their first show this week! I like their potboiler/Yomango/Dillinger four side, i'm not that much into the last song of this demo.

All three songs: here!

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Big city plan- demo

Gruff melodic punk rock from Birmingham, think of Gunmoll, Get Bent, Milloy...A trio formed early 2009. Check it out.

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Palmkite- demo

Here is a band from Northport, New York. Something between The Promise Ring, Cap’n Jazz, Joan of Arc. Formed earlier this year, Palmkite recorded a five song demo barely a month after they started! Impressive.

It's a free demo!

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Smalltown- the music

Hail hail sweden!
First swedish band on this page, from Oskarshamn.
Punk rock, power pop, pop punk, that kinda things...I read in the mrr issue#315 (about the implosion lp but its alos true for the music "If you like good music and give a damn, you will buy this record and really listen to it!"

stiff little fingers meets bombshell rocks, smart as bragg, gutsy like the clash. No shit.
Implosion Lp is on full streaming at punknews
You can hear new songs from the upcoming 10" here

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Cut the shit- Harmed and dangerous

Def 1. To tell someone to quit playing; to knock it off.
Cut the Shit was a punk/hardcore band based out of Boston, MA. It featured ex-members of Tear It Up, Cops and Robbers, and Bones Brigade. This Lp is 18 tracks in 10minutes of pissed off, raw hardcore/punk !80's thrash explosion! successfully mixing the mayhem of boston hardcore with the ferocity and anger of NYHC. 2003.

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Career Suicide- Attempted suicide

One of the best album of 2007. It's straightforward 80's hardcore withh raspy, ramblingly yelled vocals.
It's pounding, it's raw, the slap in your face you need everyday to get your eyes fucking open.
A must have from Ontario.

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Get Bent- Dead it

Three new songs from the Ridgewood's boys.

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Iron Chic- Shitty Rambo ep

The first entry of this blog was Iron Chic! Some 11 months ago -Yeah I'll be celebrating soon the one year birthday of YGII- I was expecting a Lp for Iron Chic but well four more are better than nothing at all. 7 inches are a nice path for a band to avoid long awaited releases, as you know recording a full lenght takes way more time...
Long Island's Iron chic feats former members of small arms dealers, Latterman...
It was out nov 1st.
I think i suck at review at the moment: just listen, guess it's better than lame words. ear ear here

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Mockingbird wish me luck- goodbye debris

Mockingbird is a band from Ontario, taking canadians roots with a Sainte Catherines accent, but they could be from Brooklyn mixing with No idea hints.

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Updates

will come soon
but before: one more weekend of gigs!

cheers

The Misfits- Bullet 7"

There are bands you've heard before, there are songs that did not make it. And then you dig a little more, years later and find the perfect match. "What a strike! attaboy!"
Just brilliant.
I've spent time studying the jfk assassination, counter alleys of the power, the lies, the hidden truth, the plot, the cold war era...so i created a connection, that i'm bound to this song, that bullet is my song...and then i listen to attitude and what a chorus. 1978 baby!

Ride Johnny ride.

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Lost boys-

So it's been a while... I've been busy learning my new band bass parts. I now play bass in a band that i liked very much before being part of it. Lost boys. Punk hardcore, the 80's way. Here are some material you can find in different previous 7" or splits.
Check out the website for shows and more. I'm really excited as we are going to Ireland by the end of the month!

Take care.

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Teenage Bottlerocket- They came from the shadows

Following The Lillingtons what could have been better than TBR, Laramie based band lead by Templeman, former Lillingtons 6 stringer/singer?
This release comes on Fat, hum what can i say? I'm not spitting at fat mikes face. Its one of the label of my teenage years and it did a lot in the punk rock scene. I'm not listenning that much to new fat wreck bands, I know they are bands i dislike and bands i could like!
I will just say that some of my faves bands have been on fat, againts me! propagandhi...ya know. anyway i'm just bablling here,so just give a try to tbr. classic pop punk ala weasel/lillingtons.




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Way back in the 80's: skate or die was also a song by D.I. In this song Templeman is singing a reference to JFA. Thats what im talking about: classics!

The Lillingtons- The too late show

Hey! I'm sorry, i'm going to sound so not personnal, I'm just gonna link the wikipedia thing on the Lillingtons. Click the fuck here :::
I don't have much time right now, but i wanted to share this classic pop punk outfit with you.
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Atom and his package- Attention blah blah blah

C'est de la ficelle.
Atom and his package was the project of Adam Goren, Philly resident... He used to record songs in his apartement, and had this ability to make songs you could, and still can sing all day long. Yeah baby. Cheers mates.

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Chuck Ragan- Gold country

I'm posting it trough this weekend I think...The latest thing I post of Chuck ragan was ole diesel and I received mails to erase it. I did so...
The man is playing in my town on friday. Only show in France...
So I'll go to him with my hwm tatoo on my leg and say:
-"Hey how are you doing? Your last cd is great, more county-ish but still awesome. Your warm voice, your easy listenning guitar chords, these melodies which stick to the bones."
And he'll say just that, with a tiny smile on his face.
-"I'm doing great"
So I'll look at him with all my gratitude.
-"Yeah, thats how i feel when listenning to gold country. I'm doing great. It's good to be alive."
And then realized I just closed my eyes and that is in front of us as I get carried away by his show... or maybe, as always, it'll be the time a fucking douche spills beer on me...





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Second Rate- (almost) complete discography

All right fellows, I hope my english is not too boring for those who are indeed english spoken people and most of all I hope everything's fine for all of you as for me, this is sadly the end of my summer hollidays. Back to work....

Here is one great, almost legendary, french band. In the late 90's some bands were really leading the french scene like Burning Heads or Seven Hate and then came Second Rate, formed in 1998 in Besancon, eastern France. Picking up their influences in the american scene (Husker Du, Jawbreaker, Hot Water Music, Texas is the reason...) and mixing it with french 90's emo tradition such as Drive Blind, Sixpack, Les Thugs with a rock n roll side ala Real cool killers and a little Mega city four touch. So they basically become "huge" in the early 00's, being connected with bands like Flying Donuts, Sexypop, Homeboys, Dead Pop Club and forming the emoglam connection. The band reached a sort of climax by playing at the printemps de bourges fest -non underground- and touring uk the same year following theur split with the great band Scuttle.
A classic line up: two guitars, a drummer singer and a bass player who kept on changing over the year and a brilliant way to play great shows and release good cds. A five year span history which contribute a lot to the french scene. I remenber being to their last tour, saw them in Limoges and to this day it is still one of the best show I've ever seen. I videotaped it but after 6 years and many movings I cannot find it. Maye some day, I'll post it. It must be somewhere.
Anyway, hope you'll like this band for those who don't know these guys, you got to be familiar with the typical french accent when trying to sing in english!
You can visit Nasty samy website, former second rate guitar player, website to know some more.


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I could not provide you with the first split 7" with brainwash, as I have nothing to record my vinyls on my laptop...
And I simply do not have their first demo, state of regression, 1998. If someone can help...





2000 - Nice Line Life

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2001 - Grinding To Dust Two Years Somewhat Insane

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2002 - split Second Rate / Scuttle

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2002 - CD single promo Printemps de Bourges

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2003 - split Second Rate / Flying Donuts

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2003 - Last Days Of Glory

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Second Rate - With The Sun

Algernon Cadwallader- Some kind of Cadwallader

So I hear you sound like Cap'n'Jazz...
Pronounce that "al-jur-non kad-wall-uh-der", many says it's a steal of Tim Kinsella's voice, the 90's emo way above all, the skinned shouts, playing with the correctness of tune ala promise ring, in between melancholic or sometimes elusive or just catchy guitar chords. Soothing yet intricate melodies to the offbeat punk rhythms, you won't have a hard time to find a nice hook or an anthemic chorus (Motivational Song)
I'm proposing to you the effort they put out after their first demo. Hail, Hail Philly, this is some good shit. For french people like me, they'll be touring Europe this fall with two shows in France, and you can be sure i'll be at my town's show in Lyon, the 12th of october!




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Cap'n'jazz- Analphabetapolothology

Cap'n'jazz in one very influential band, yet short lived, from the 90's. The Kinsella brothers formed the band in 1989, in Chicago and broke up in 1995 mainly because Davey von Bohlen (guitarist and vocalist) left Chicago to focus on his side projectThe promise ring. They got very significant over the years, the kinda band which is more popular after they're dead, and we often relate to them when speaking of the 90's emo. For that matters, beyond their talent and influence Cap'n'Jazz is also notable for the significant careers former members of the band have charted since the demise in 95: Make Believe, The Promise Ring, American Football, Owls, Ghosts and Vodka, Joan of Arc and Owen!!
Jade Tree decided in 1998 to pile up in a double cd release -an anthology- their recorded works from Shmap'n Shmazz, early singles, material from split releases, compilation tracks to unreleased demos...
Here it is.



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Polar Bear Club- The summer of George ep

And the saga continues with another summer ep!
Hell yeah, please applause Polar Bear Club -already an entry in this blog- and enjoy three new tracks.


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Paint it black- "summer ep's"

Paint it black -which already has an entry in this blog (see below)- decided to release a back to back couple of 7 inches. Here they are. Fast, pissed off, with from time to time striking melodies. (The one which thrills like in womb envy or memorial day...) .Dan Yemin a future punk rock hall of famer...

Amnesia- Bridge Nine

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Surrender- Fatwreck

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Happy hollidays!

I'm off for a month! See you in late august. Til then, take care and enjoy whatever you're doing. Life ain't so bad.

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ps:
a)Thanks for your kind reactions.
b)Oh and I take some pictures, you can see 'em right here!

The riot before- Split 7" w. Broadway calls/So long the lighthouse/Fists buried in pockets

Their last release and first full lenght is A BOMB! Huge guitars and passionate, slightly raspy vocals. Nice upbeats, Mike Ness meets Against me meets Gaslight Anthem americana with a folk punk accent. Catchy, anthemic, one of the best album of 2008. Memorable. The quartet from Richmond, Va deserves a "very very highly recommended" note! Impressive considering the work on that record and you'll be able to compare with previous stuff such as a split with The broadway calls and an ep name so long the lighthouse.


Broadway calls Split

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So long the lighthouse Ep

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Fists buried in pockets Lp

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We are wild stallions

Lucero- New songs(live)/Nobody's darling/Tennessee

Rocknroll from below the Mason-Dixon line, at its finest. Lucero, from Memphis Tennessee seems loaded with whiskey and deep as the old south can be. Hurdling Mike Ness, Johnny Cash, working with Jim Dickinson for Nobodys Darling (Bob Dylan, The replacements, The Rolling Stones...) Lucero after a decade of clubs, bars and many miles of tar has just reached a new level, bringing their alt country-southern rock to a major company. Ben Nichols and co have made their choice, so before that here are some new songs (maybe in their upcoming record) for the fans and some old songs for those about to rock. One hell of a band.

Tennessee (2002)

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Nobody's darling (2005)

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New songs (live)

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Kiss the bottle (JAWBREAKER! cover)


Sixteen


Slow dancing


Bikeriders

Paint it black- Paradise

So here's to the skinned knees and sutured hearts Here's to the unhappy endings and all the false starts

Dan Yemin means something to you?
Kid dynamite? Yes!
Survivor from a cerebrovascular accident? Yes!
-and he named the first effort of paint it black after he avoided death and did not gave up on hardcore-
Straight in your face hardcore, minor threat ealy period.
This is so damn good from one of my favorite label. Jade tree.




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Yo a numeric mixtape! #2

1. Beastie Boys- Egg raid on mojo
2. Black Flag- Rise Above
3. Rites of spring- For want of
4. French toast- Why not
5. Jawbreaker- Shield your eyes
6. The get up kids- Close to home
7. Lock and key- 303
8. Pitch black radio- Speed of decay
9. The insurgent- Tin cans and strings
10. Refused- Summerholidays vs punkroutine
11. Madeline- Betty page
12. Billy Bragg- New England

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#1 reason to move to Gainesville

I bought this record in Nyc, at generation records and i first tought it was an old comp. Boy I was wrong. I was used to the big headlines, big names. I only knew one name before listenning to it...that's maybe why i thought it was old, like the first steps of no idea records...
These are ten tracks with ten different bands from Ga, Fla.
I can't count the times i've said to myself that i'm going to the next Fest!
Still waiting.
Please tell me? How many bands are from Gainesville?
Still counting.

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Kimya Dawson&Matty pop chart- Split 7"

Anti folk, childish pop, indie stuff, ala plan itx...

One. You may have heard of Kimya Dawson in the ost of Juno, if not before.
Two. Whats important is her lyrics, with her music tending to serve as a mere platform for humorous stories whose serious subject matter contradicts the childlike catchiness underpinning them.
Three. Antsy pants is a side project of her.

One. Matty pop chart is a less polished John K. Samson, nasally and sweet.
Two. Matt tobey is his real name, he used to play in Abe Froman. Check all of this!
Three. There is no number three.


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