rolling punk/non-indie underground 2015

KEN Mode is p brutal, good stuff

I am p sure I just saw Tenement and Priests play w/ Screaming Females a few months ago?

I am RLY into what Philly noise-punx Pinkwash are doing rn. They have a new 7" that just came out that is super great and the are like unbelievably thrashy/energetic live. This is prob their best song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHh5FWxxSy4

https://pinkwash.bandcamp.com/album/cancer-money-7

this thread has been a bit devoid of ACTUAL PUNK ROCK (apologies to everybody) but I just wanna say that Hagar The Womb are the best band in the history of bands and if they are playing near you fucking go for fuck's sake.

i have some Actual Punk ive been meaning to post. my drummer put a bunch of stuff on my ipod for tour and i made a lil playlist of my favourite stuff before taking it all off. can't rember it all but off the dome freak vibe, mystic inane were 2 huge discoveries

I got around to making a Spotify Listening list for this thread:
Rolling Punk 2015 Spotify Playlist

this 'sad sack' track by the snooty garbagemen is great. can't quite place who the vocalist is reminding me of. Nervous Eaters dude maybe??
https://snootygarbagemen.bandcamp.com/

Downtown Boys cover of "Dancing in the Dark" is actually kind of fun

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/this-d-c-hardcore-compilation-could-be-the-new-flex-your-head/

Who knows

https://thetrendees.bandcamp.com/track/power-waves

Went to gig for Maximum Rocknroll day. I fuckin love the Repossessed. Not that the rest of the gig was too shabby.

Been reading folks raving about Downtown Boys, someone calling them the best punk band out there today (and deciding on 1 group for any genre is kinda dumb but anyway). I guess I don't listen to enough of this stuff anymore to say. I like their offshoot dancier group

yet to actually hear these guys but I suspect they're going to attract praise like that by people who listen to little or no other punk music, same as eg Fucked Up or Iceage

nb I love or have loved both those bands so I don't mean that as a slight

they have a song called 100% Inheritance Tax so they've got my attention

I don't know about best punk band going, but I saw Downtown Boys a few months ago with no knowledge of any hype and I thought they were phenomenal. They're one of those bands that clicks into this upper echelon of energy, like they've got an extra gear that other bands don't, and you're watching them not even sure of what exactly they're doing to make it happen. Screaming Females played next, and they seemed kinda subdued in comparison.

Any band with an album called Full Communism get my vote.

Downtown Boys are rad. Can kinda tell that they're phenomenal live too. Hope they make the UK soon.

the new tenement is really good.

new royal headache - https://soundcloud.com/krazypunx/royal-headache-high-1/s-357IJ

not sure where's the best place for this, but the new Thee Tsunamis record is excellent
https://theetsunamis.bandcamp.com/

Oops, I accidentally posted about the new Royal Headache in the 2014 thread. So I'll repost this here, a live video from 2013 with performances of "High" and a few more songs from the new album (links to individual songs in the comments):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMjP-3Xh6DM

Hadn't heard about the new Tenement. I googled it and found this nice review in the NYT. Excited to hear it!

new Flesh World album on Iron Lung is sounding really good, might even be better than their first 12" which was great https://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/album/the-wild-animals-in-my-life-lp-lungs-064

one of those you can prob flip a coin as to whether it's 'punk' or 'indie', assuming you even care. ex-Brilliant Colors and Limpwrist folks

best band in the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a52LNrnvSA

NY Times review compares Tenement's double album ambition to Husker Du and Minutemen. I like Tenement's pop-punk and their piano instrumental interludes, but set in my ways me is not ready to put this alongside Zen Arade or Double Nickels.

Arcade

The first actual song on the Tenement album sounds exactly like Everclear.

this rips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3uNwu-X6dQ

Tonight in old men rocking the fuck out it's Radio Birdman. Wow they were amazing. I had a ticket for the last time they were supposed to play London at the Underworld but they were turned away by immigration.

Yeah seriously a great band! I play them in the store sometimes and am always disappointed that no one gives a shit; it's like the greatest rock band most people have never heard but all they want is Tull and Zeppelin and the Beatles. Still.

i had "aloha steve and danno" on some promo cd from when the sub pop comp came out circa 2001 and played the shit out of it (and later the whole compilation), amazing band. no US dates on this tour sadly

This is a quick, mid-year reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a handful of album selections from each listed) are being posted as updated to the thread-specific Spotify playlist. I just did a top-to-bottom sweep prior to posting this message and have updated as of today with everything that's been added on Spotify since it was first mentioned.

Somehow I lost track of this thread but we're updated now: 20 tracks, 1 hour.

ILX's Rolling Punk 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

Cool idea, thanks a lot forks.

http://www.rocknrollparasite.com/destroy-all-art-lp/

^^^ cool comp of 1990s punk, great and noisy and DIY-weird. Already OOP (to be repressed) and absolutely worth picking up if you see it.

No one ever posts on the Protomartyr thread so I'm putting this here too:

https://soundcloud.com/hardlyartrecords/why-does-it-shake/

whoops i think i just posted this in last years' thread

https://ursulamtl.bandcamp.com/releases

That Protomartyr song is really great. Somehow simultaneously more mellow but more intense

I made a standalone Royal Headache thread. Why not? They're a big deal.

Hmm, I guess I don't know how to link to other threads on here. Anyway, it's not hard to find.

thots on white reaper?

I like them a lot. More pop-punk than my usual tastes but the rinky-dink keys and well-written songs push it over the edge.

A thread for Australian garage-pop-punk-soul geniuses ROYAL HEADACHE, the best rock band of this decade, occasioned by their forthcoming 2015 album HIGH

Another try at a Royal Headache link

anyone else enjoying the new Rats On Rafts?

the new tenement is really good.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 12:22 AM (1 month ago)

yes! probably my favourite record of the year. if you had told me even last year that i'd fall in love with a double LP of pop punk songs in 2015 i would've laughed very very hard.

http://ihatesex.bandcamp.com/track/i-fucking-hate-sports

dxm - sexual

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Kinda feeling that i hate sex stuff; trebly and ugly and tuneful

This is a quick, third-quarter reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a handful of album selections from each listed) are being updated to the thread-specific Spotify playlist as posted. I just did another top-to-bottom sweep prior to posting this message and have updated as of today with everything that's been added since first mentioned. Subscribe if you're into it!

26 tracks, a little over an hour

Rolling Emo/Pop-Punk/Bullshit/Haircuts 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

Really into this new Kitchen's Floor album. More great Australian punk.

https://youtu.be/jC3l8uFE8JQ

don't know where else to put this:
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/10/06/22966675/offensive-to-whom-what-the-cuntz-child-abuse-and-christeene-controversies-say-about-seattle

L.O.T.I.O.N. lp is really good

https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/digital-control-and-mans-obsolescence-lp

yeah I love it. kinda sounds like a second-tier Digital Hardcore group but that's a ✓ imo

More post-punk than punk but this Subnormal Girls compilation that came out this year is fucking fantastic, one of the best comps of this kind I've ever heard.

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Subnormal-Girls-DIYPost-Punk-1979-83-Vol-1/release/8496822

Oh wow, it's got Boys Boys on it!

I was only familiar with the Liggers (from Messthetics - same track included here) and the Petticoats and Morbid Opera (from Killed By Death - different songs) before but I don't think there's a bad song on this comp.

I only made this connection quite recently because I don't usually read sites like the Quietus unless someone links to something from here, and didn't know the ilxor who writes this column's real name (I assume he's too modest to link it here himself? so I won't mention who it is just in case... :)) but this series of articles is highly recommended for punk/non-indie underground fans:

http://thequietus.com/features/gardner-s-straight-hedge

Like, I'm going through some of the columns from this year and it's all good stuff that I've often been finding out about from blogs, this thread, following certain labels/distros (mostly La Vida Es Un Mus tbh) and will definitely be reading this regularly from now on.

nice! quite well-written, too.

it's me

thx both

Ohhhh, that's you? For some reason, despite me reading that column and it featuring a bunch of my friends and actually meeting you at Supernormal, I had failed to make that connection also.

well I don't make a big fuss abt it and a lot of the bands are fairly indifferent to being covered I think, esp in an arena like tQ, but it's an enjoyable thing to do either way

The band I am in is giving away our second record for free because it just turned ten on our bandcamp site

https://stnnng.bandcamp.com/album/fake-fake

nice

Just downloaded the 2015 demo by Remiso, band from Malmo but could've fooled me they were from early 90s Japan tbh. Great hardcore with a bit of metal (some soloing in some of the songs basically) does not sound like a demo tape.

bad noids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxU1hkofbSE&feature=youtu.be

new Career Suicide album is really good

I can't find a more recent thread (RIP search) but so the band I play in, STNNNG, has a new record coming out and you can listen to the first song

https://modernradio.bandcamp.com/track/the-last-nostalgia

RIP Load records

Is there not a 2017 version of this thread?

Anyway, new Thoughts of Ionesco tune: https://corpseflowerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/thoughts-of-ionesco-skar-cymbals

i like what i've heard of this US Weekly album: https://nightmoveslabel.bandcamp.com/

RIP Load records

― flopson, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 01:33 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I haven't really followed them in recent years, still bummed about this

i sold all my old punk records yesterday woo!

this 'Horrendous New Wave' comp sounds great: https://soundcloud.com/lumpyrex/western-civ-fun-ladies-in-white

fuck it, new thread: Rolling punk/non-indie underground 2017