rolling punk/non-indie underground 2014

yes v much so bring it on imho

I wanted to check out Hysterics but I was away the weekend they played in London.

My punk report:

Seems like a lot of decent newish London bands around at the moment - saw a great gig with mix of HC and post-punk bands a few weeks back - I think Die might've been mentioned on the 2013 thread maybe, there was also No which has ex-Shitty Limits guy on drums. The post-punks were Shopping and Ravioli Me Away both were pretty good. Couple of weeks ago saw Los Crudos with Shopping again plus Frau, Dregs and Lowest Form supporting. Bought the Shopping and Lowest Form LPs at that gig. Also the usual old bands coming round again - Chaos UK reformed again, saw them last month with some other oldies supporting - Lunatic Fringe, Coitus, Fleas & Lice (missed them cos I turned up late).

This weekend is ScumFest which is 3 days of hardcore, punk & crust bands and I have a weekend ticket. And then Melt-Banana on Wednesday.

Oh I also went to an Oi! gig a couple of months ago, with the Templars and Last Resort. That was a bit dodgy tbh. I thought with the Templars having 2 black members they might not attract the bonehead types but they have been accused of associating with racists before and sure enough it was full of skins with "greyzone" band t-shirts, and there were people from bands like Close Shave and Pressure 28 in the audience. On the other hand there wasn't any trouble and no-one was sieg-heiling or anything like that.

Talking of which was nice to see this video of the Cockney Rejects playing recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvN3FdZoDDA

Just to turn into a massive shill for a moment, if you like Shopping, Ravioli Me Away and Frau (as I do, very much), then you may be interested in this: http://riotsnotdiets.bandcamp.com/album/i-know-why-the-caged-grrrl-sings-compilation-v-a

Really looking forward to Melt-Banana, too.

Shill? Are you involved with that comp/label?

I bought the Frau demo tape at the Los Crudos show as well. I hate tapes so I will probably never play it again now I've ripped it. Doesn't help that my tape deck is fucked and likes to just stop playing randomly.

I'm a well-wisher, in that I don't wish them any specific harm. Ha. They are friends, and I guess technically my current label? Seeing as they put out my band's demo tape (sorry, yes, an actual tape: http://riotsnotdiets.bandcamp.com/album/slum-of-legs-demo ), a track of mine was on the last comp and they're putting out our debut 7" this summer, I think that would be a reasonable statement to make.

thanks for that Nervous link, Edward III, I'm a sucker for AmRep style

xp Cool, didn't know you were in a new band, and with ex-Blue Minkies too!

I'm pretty into NONES on HoZac, three women + a dude singing and playing skronky sax
https://soundcloud.com/hozac-records/nones-wife-meat

Couple more songs here https://soundcloud.com/nones

New Octagrape single http://octagrape.bandcamp.com/album/vertical-evasion

first song off the new Spray Paint 7" is fully hitting the spot https://soundcloud.com/upset-the-rhythm/01-a-cussin

had some dimly lit perception of them being a 'buzzband' atm, which could result in, oh, 50 extra singles being sold if they got lucky

http://weekendnachos.bandcamp.com/album/still

Chicago-area grind/hxc, this release is from late 2013 but I only learned about them recently from a friend.

Nervy, paranoid post-punk from ex-Antelope people - really loving this:

Puff Pieces - 7"
http://lovitt.bandcamp.com/album/4-song-7

Just to turn into a massive shill for a moment, if you like Shopping, Ravioli Me Away and Frau (as I do, very much), then you may be interested in this: http://riotsnotdiets.bandcamp.com/album/i-know-why-the-caged-grrrl-sings-compilation-v-a

Just bought that at Joanna Gruesome/Perfect Pussy/etc gig!

Yeahhhh!

Wish I could've made that show. A lot of it way more indie than stuff discussed here but a large proportion of those bands have been killing it lately.

woah this band sounds serious as fuck, coming to mpls soon gonna see em

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccv-rCCKpP4

hey, this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl6Vf_LFYAw

also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukHyYSHh5hM

You guys heard Pypy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ta3LLQgdrM

Kinda all over the place, really, but more punk/non-indie than anything else I can think of.

mmmmm i like that

New proggy-mathy-punk two-track single from The Effects - new band from Devin Ocampo of Faraquet/Medications:
http://theeffects.bandcamp.com/releases

Looking forward to the Leather Towel full length coming out on Hozac later this year. Members of Nun/Exhaustion/Ausmuteants doing some gnarly sounding hardcore.

Speaking of which, looking forward to the new Ausmuteants record on Goner. They're playing here in early October with King Khan; should be a riot.

http://leathertowel.bandcamp.com/

kinda sick of pypy, mostly just because a certain promoter here in TO keeps trying to make them happen. they're OK live, didn't strike me as anything special tho.

this new tune from the upcoming Obliterations record blitzed my brain the other day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D38aT4BbvDs

Southern Lord's really getting into the thrash/crossover/punk/whatever thing with this, Power Trip, etc. i'm into it.

someone let me know if it's too indie and/or too anything for this thread...took me this long to notice, click and bookmark

http://obliterationssl.bandcamp.com/album/poison-everything-2

lol what about this could possibly be indie (in the relevant sense)

real vocal-cord shredder too

^^ one of my fave heavy records of 2014. that thing fucking SLAAAAAYS, for real

oh wait, just noticed that i posted the video above and you were sorta responding to me lol

i was

but as with most things, it was cuz of a pitchfork review that i checked for it

keep it forky

rolling forky/non-forky forkyground

Am really looking forward to Static Shock Weekend which starts tomorrow night and finishes Sunday evening:
https://www.facebook.com/events/698531903516030/

Loads of great bands: ARMS RACE, BAD MANIFEST, CRIMINAL CODE (USA), DAWN OF HUMANS (USA), DIAT (GERMANY / AUSTRALIA), DIE, DISGUISE (IRELAND), DRY HEAVES, FRAU, GIVE (USA), GOOD THROB, HANK WOOD AND THE HAMMERHEADS (USA), HARD SKIN, MANKIND, NO, NO FORM, OBSTRUCT, ORDEN MUNDIAL (SPAIN), OUTSIDER (CANADA), PERSONNEL, PERSPEX FLESH, PRIMETIME, RAKTA (BRAZIL), S.H.I.T. (CANADA), S.L.A.R.V. (SWEDEN), SNOB, STREET BEEF, STRONG BOYS (IRELAND), THE FLEX, THE LOVE TRIANGLE, THE NUMBER ONES (IRELAND), THE REPOSSESSED, THE SPLITS (FINLAND), VIOLENT REACTION

report on this itt would be appreciated. lineup is killer. going to Belgium and seeing Neubauten instead so can't complain, like

Awesome. Shout-outs to Frau, Good Throb and Primetime. Rakta are coming here soon, they sound pretty great.

Have yet to hear Primetime, but I've seen Frau & Good Throb a couple of times and I've got Frau's demo and Good Throb's Fuck Off LP.

Oh meant to say really enjoyed Slum Of Legs on Friday night btw, wanted to buy the single but got distracted talking to Fizzles.

Primetime single is cool, also one of them bought an Ut record off me on Discogs

Thanks, CP! Sorry for shilling on the thread, but there are still some singles available from the Tuff Enuff website if you are still wanting one: https://riotsnotdiets.bandcamp.com/album/begin-to-dissolve

Primetime single is cool, also one of them bought an Ut record off me on Discogs

Haha, perfect.

holy shit that obliterations record, thanks for the link

Thanks Emily, ordered.

First night of Static Shock was cool, started off with 3 HC bands - Snob, Strong Boys, Arms Race all pretty good, then Diät and Rakta which were more post-punk. I got confused because they changed the running order, and thought Diät were called Rakta, and bought the Rakta album after Diät's set, so I was really hoping Rakta would be good after spending money on them! I didn't like them as much as Diät tbh but they were pretty good. I just made the last tube home but I'm working from home today so I didn't have to get up too early.

I've been really digging this for the last week or so: https://peoplestemple.bandcamp.com/album/more-for-the-masses

Not bad!

New video from The Yips (that I directed, but it's a genuinely great band) for a tune off their EP: http://bruisedtongue.bandcamp.com/album/air-loom

Self-described ouija rock, dark surf-y garage music.

http://youtu.be/02WVDlH7_Fw

never got round to checking these guys out until now but this new Pop. 1280 track is really good https://soundcloud.com/sacredbones/pop-1280-krank/s-bsOZd?mc_cid=a93011f1a2&mc_eid=2a28e84fe0

sounds like the kind of industrial/punk that would get smuggled into Kerrang circa 1993 hidden amongst Pantera and Terrorvision coverage

anyone mentioned the Coneheads?

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

obnox!!!!!

shit yeah good call. gonna x-post to the 2015 version tho...

Royal Headache, the soul-inflected Australian garage group who are one of the greatest bands in the world, have announced a new album and U.S. tour dates and put a new track up on Soundcloud.

^broken link, but this works too https://royalheadache.bandcamp.com/track/high

Ah rats, thank you

good track imo!

Definitely! This live video from 2013 has performances of a few other tracks from the new record ("Carolina", "Garbage", and "Electric Shock") plus I guess some other stuff that didn't make it. (Someone in the comments has helpfully added links to the individual songs.)

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

^that is fantastic

Downtown Boys are pretty cool! Love sax in punk

https://ursulamtl.bandcamp.com/releases

this is amazing

A belated discovery--their most recent release is from 2104--but I'm really digging Vancouver's Needles//Pins:

http://needlesxpins.bandcamp.com

(Shamebirds, that 2014 record, is prob a good place to start, but for a great bite-size chunk, check out the "Outta This Place"/"Date Night (You Bring the Napalm)" single.

*2014, that is--no need to wait 89 years for their latest.

Their First World Problems EP from 2010 (which isn't on discogs, I think it was a cassette?) was p good but I never followed up on it.

http://urbankill.tumblr.com/post/125341800988/youre-not-invited-new-zealands-underground

Amazeballs colln of nzld undies there.