Tag: Punk
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When We Were Young mashup triple bill!
The buzz is big about the When We Were Young festival (is it the new Fyre festival? Is it for real?) and appropriately the Crumplbangers Discord challenge this week was to create a mashup from the massive lineup. And now the festival has added a third date, there is three mashups to download! The When…
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The Linda Lindas – Oh
Checking in with The Linda Lindas, the scarily young punk Asian-American/Latinx band from Los Angeles and much has changed – they are signed to Epitaph now and released a massive jam Oh! last year…. And later on last month they released the ode to one of the group’s cat, Nino which I think they did…
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Witch Fever – Bully Boy
A support band guitarist shouted ‘take your tops off’ at punk band Witch Fever at a gig.. So the band recorded this appropriately angry response ‘Bully Boy’ to that sad fact that ‘alternative music scene is still very much a ‘boys club’‘. Sexism is still a thing, Love the video as well….not for the squeamish…
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Viagra Boys: Always Hard
After Pengshui, another recent punk gem is Sweden’s Viagra Boys – kind of like an amphetamine Fat White Family that shops at IKEA and not ALDI. Started in 2015, they seem similarly genre blind like Fat White, and have a post punk funk thing going on – as well as country and electro…. You can…
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This is PENGSHUi
Why didn’t anyone tell me of PENGSHUi? Beards, hiphop, grime, punk, like a bearded Bob Vylan with a NikNaks, ST:NG and Thundercats obsession…this is totally me. What did I say about punk revivals a year or so ago? Seems to be slowly coming true – the aforementioned Vylan, Slowthai, IDLES, Clockworks, Sleaford, LOUD Women, Dream…
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The Linda Lindas
Listening to this concert at LA Public Library by the Linda Lindas – who age from 10 to 16, and write amazingly good punk/Teen-C/Riot Grrl songs and have supported Bikini Kill who they cover their ‘Rebel Girl’ which they played in the film Moxie.. I expecially like Never Say Never, No Clue, Racist Sexist Boy…