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"

SPEED - Don't Need

1. Who are SPEED?

SPEED are a hardcore punk band from Sydney, Australia. They formed in 2019 and Don't Need (June, 2024) is the third single from their debut album Only One Mode (July, 2024).

2. What does Don't Need bring? 

Don't Need is a hardcore punk song with more twists and turns than a rabbit being chased by a greyhound. It is ten modes in one song and it slaps you in the face with it's wild variations in tone and pace. Don't Need is sophisticated, innovative and aggressive and SPEED are a politically conscious band with integrity and morals. The real deal.

3. Which bands are SPEED similar to? 

Turnstile, High Vis, Angel Du$t.

4. Which bands have influenced SPEED? 

The singer Jem Siow mentioned some love as a young'un for Linkin Park and Parkway Drive. 

5. What have people said about Don't Need?

"Another swaggering, chest-thumping anthem" - Stereogum.

"Showing the true meaning of hardcore" - Kerrang!

"Tough-as-nails hardcore anthem bursting with NYHC toughness" - Alt Press.

"You keep runnin and runnin that mouth,

Don't waste your breath on me"

Conservative Military Image - Yard Hard

1. Who are they?

Conservative Military Image are a hardcore punk band from Chicago/Boston with an Oi sound and they've been running down the streets since 2022 or there abouts. Yard Hard (March, 2023) marches off their first long player Casual Violence (May, 2023).

2. What is Yard Hard about?

A tune about camaraderie in the music scene bursts out of the traps all street fighting skinhead Oi but lays on the fat riffs for the chorus. Done and dusted in a minute flat but catchier than the Thai clap.

3. Which bands do Conservative Military Image sound like?

No one else? A bit like End It, Scowl, SPEED, Agnostic Front, and Violent Way.

4. Which bands have influenced Conservative Military Image?

The main likes are Warzone, early Acca Dacca (AC/DC), The New York Hounds and there is a bit of love for Henry Rollins and Danzig.

5. What have people said about Yard Hard?

"A ripper, as aggressive as it is catchy"- Brooklyn Vegan.

"This band is blowing up and they deserve every bit of it"- Reddit.

"Tried-and-true punk riffs and tough tales of blue-collared life" - Stay Happening.

"You either walk the yard or you're with the guards,

Get your ass over the fence we're going yard hard"