America's 3 Hottest Punk Bands At The Minute In 3 Songs

1.    Sheer Mag - Nobody's Baby.

Sheer Mag burn out of Philadelphia and have three short players to their name. Nobody's Baby (March'16) is off the third EP III (March'16). Pitchfork said Nobody's Baby has “hip shaking hooks and burly riffs” and Brooklyn Vegan hailed it as “a fiery, punchy mission statement with a sing-along chorus.”

 

Sheer Mag have been compared to MC5 and Thin Lizzy. Sheer Mag's main influences are Drive-In, Bear Vs Shark, Thin Lizzy, Meatloaf and Fleetwood Mac. Sheer Mag marry seventies classic rock riffs to a roaring punk engine and Nobody's Baby's fiery vocals are belted out with furious indignation. A treasure.

 

“Wanting you so bad it hurts”

 

 

 

 
2. Public Access TV - In Love And Alone.

 

 

Public Access TV are from New York City and have one short player and a few singles behind them. In Love And Alone (Nov'15) is a double A side single. NME declared their love for the band saying they have “already proved the goldmine of rock’n’roll classics has yet to run dry” and DIY hailed In Love And Alone as “their most unhinged, all-out rock’n’roll single yet.”

 

Public Access TV sound like The Ramones, The Strokes and Palma Violets. Their main influences are The Strokes, Johnny Thunders, Lou Reed, Interpol and The Ramones. Public Access TV bring the urgency of punk to more complex post-punk melodies. In Love And Alone  is raw and modern, has grit and polish, the sound of the soccer stadium emptying into the fine city streets.

 

“She is lost and she is scared now,

I should ask myself why and how”

 

 

 

3.    PARTYBABY - Your Old Man.

 

 

 

PARTYBABY are from Los Angeles and have three big singles on their roll of honor. Your Old Man (Oct'15) was the second of these massive missives. The Fat Angel Sings said Your Old Man is “an intoxicating blend of frazzled punk and impossibly infectious melodic refrains” and DIY reckoned it is “snarling punk rock with a tab of anthemia.”

 

PARTYBABY have been compared to FIDLAR and SWMRS. The band's influences are band like Everclear, Primal Scream and SWMRS. Noah Gersh was a member of Portugal. The Man and Jamie Shefman is most famous for engineering and producing for 30 Seconds To Mars. PARTYBABY elevate their garage punk attack with soaring glam rock and pop sensibilities. Your Old Man blows out the cobwebs.

 

“Does he understand what we do on the weekends?”

 

 

 

 



Public Access TV - In Love and Alone

1.   Who are these grips?

Public Access TV are a post punk rock band from New York City. They have a short player behind them and a new album to be released soon this year. In Love and Alone (Nov'15) is a double A-side single with Patti Peru.

2. What kind of tune have Public Access TV got?

An indie punk rocker with gang vocals that bangs along like the car they are driving. Not fast but with grit and style.

3. Who do Public Access TV sound like?

In Love and Alone is playing in the same sandbox as FIDLAR’s Why Generation, VANT’s Parking Lot. The Vaccine’s Handsome is over on the swings and Palma Violets' Danger In The Club is having a durry, chatting up a young'un by the slides.

The good bastards at Itcher throw out Spring King, Rory Wynne, The Jacques, Weezer and The Strokes as their go to bands.

4. So what have the press goons got to say?

The sycophants are licking this shit up. Public Access TV have “... already proved the goldmine of rock'n'roll classics has yet to run dry,” according to those venerable scribes at NME who went on to lap more up, In Love and Alone is  “... backed up by clattering, cacophonous guitars. It's noisy, chaotic and a true-to-life reflection of the tumult of emotions that comes with unrequited love.” DIY were wanting some of the same action, “bombastic,” they reckoned and, “their most unhinged, all-out rock and roll single yet.” “Rambunctious, loud, full of guitars,” straight batted The Most Definitely and Clash Music sensing they might be left only watching this love fest hurled themselves into the fray with “he American band are seemingly equipped with snappy anthem after snappy anthem.”

 

 5. Who are Public Access TV influenced by?

The band have said they got wood listening to The Strokes and were influenced by Interpol. Front man John Eatherly has talked about having some love for The Ramones, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and Johnny Thunders.

6. So why should I give In Love and Alone a fair crack of the whip?

Do you like The Ramones? If not jog on. Slow Ramones with better production values. Raw but modern.  A song about un-requitted love. Universal themes. 

7. Do Public Access TV have any more red hot numbers?

Did cancer have a hard on for The Ramones? Try In The Mirror. It doesn't blow goats.

 8. Is there any more invaluable information to impart?

The bands apartment was blown up, up up, by a gas explosion you might remember.

The band have been on fluffer duties for good bands like Weezer, The Strokes, FIDLAR, WAVVES and Twin Peaks. 

“She is lost and she is scared now,

I should ask myself why and how”

Slippery seconds today is courtesy of another post punk New York band Interpol. Started in 1997 they have found critical acclaim, fame and fortune. Everything Is Wrong (Jan'15) is one of four singles from their fifth, and most recent, album El Pinter (2014). The album got rave reviews.

“Think I know why, what I say,

Inverse achievements, I rule the daze”