Showing posts with label Boston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boston. Show all posts

Saturday, 30 November 2024

Haywire - Clocktower Place

 



1. Who are Haywire? 

Haywire are a hardcore punk band from Boston, Massachusetts. They have been making music since 2023 and have already fired off one album. Clocktower Place (Nov, 2024) is from their E.P. For Better Or For Worse (Nov, 2024).


2. What kind of song is Clocktower Place? 

Clocktower Place is one of the bands mellow tracks. A sweet love song with a little bit of high octane backing it is by no means a damp (or limp) squib.


3. Which bands do Haywire sound like?

Internal Affairs, End It, and Conservative Military Image. 


4. Which bands have influenced Haywire? 

I don't know. But they have a member of Loosey guesting on Clocktower Place, as well as members of Chubby & The Gang, Death Before Dishonour, Conservative Military Image collaborating on their debut album.


5. What have people said about Clocktower Place?

"Catchy and cool and so punk!" - Album Of The Year.

"Sad, catchy punk ballad" - Salad Days.

"Oddly bluesy" - Stereogum.


"I love you so much that it hurts,

All the things I should have did,

Your absence is my regret"






Friday, 10 October 2014

The Best Indie Songs of 2014 - Air Traffic Controller



 
 
Listen to the feel good tune The House (Feb'14) by Air Traffic Controller on a sunny Sunday afternoon doing the housework and you will have a Shit I like that song who sings that? experience.
No riots are gonna be started in their name but The House is a by the books indie melody, drum and sing-along. Air Traffic Controller infiltrate your music loving body until you just need more.

 
 
 
 
The House  is off Air Traffic Controller’s debut effort NORDO released in 2012 by the Boston band.

The singer actually was an Air Traffic Controller in the US Navy.

Air Traffic Controller have mad love for Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, The Beatles, Paul Simon and so on.

Don't go AWOL, stay on base with Hurry Hurry and Pick Me Up.



 

It's all about the geography this week so suck up a little arse kicking from the hilariously stupid Dropkick Murphys and the not at all stupid song The State of Massachusetts.

What is it with New England and the Irish? Why don't they just go fucking back there the potato loving sons of bitches and see how much they like it? God-damn dumbasses.