FIDLAR - Alcohol

1.    Who are FIDLAR?

FIDLAR are a punk band from Los Angeles who have recorded two albums. Alcohol (April'18) is a stand alone single.

2. What kind of track is Alcohol?

Alcohol is a hard rocking number as subtle as a cunt punt. Pissed Jeans' The Bar Is Low meets Beastie Boy's No Sleep Till Brooklyn. A throbbing chorus full of cock rock aggression that builds to a yell-along gang chorus. Primitive.

3. Who do FIDLAR sound like?

SWMRS, The Orwells, and WAVVES.

4. What is the good word from the press?

“Raw and unconfined and goofily fun” – Stereogum.

“You can’t be more direct than this punk fierce anthem” – Rock NYC.

“A gut-puncher” – Far Out.

5. Which bands lit their fire?

Beastie Boys, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Black Flag, The Black Lips, and Jay Reatard.

6. Why should I listen to Alcohol?

You are a FIDLAR fan. You like a song that can't count past it's fingers and toes.

7. What other bangers do these lads have?

Why Generation and 40 oz On Repeat.

8. Any more words?

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong is credited by FIDLAR singer Zac Carper with helping him quit heroin. Voice of experience I suppose. Talking about junkies FIDLAR did a killer cover of Nirvana's Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle. 

“I love waking up in some randoms home,

And I’ll pack a cone and hit it to the dome”

VANT are a political punk band from London, England. Talk Like Thunder is the title track from their mini-album Talk Like Thunder (October'17). VANT sound like Spring King and FIDLAR although Talk Like Thunder has a more mainstream Britpop sound not completely unlike Blur or Oasis and is more delicately constructed than the bangers from their debut album. 

“Tell me the meaning of life,
Is it in the water-flow, the baby-grow, or mortgaged home,
Or in the smile of your debt ridden wife?”

The 30 Best Indie Rock Songs of 2016 (10 - 1)

No fucking about, let’s get into it. 

10. Red Cabin - I Can't Wait 

Red Cabin is Jonathan Foster, an indie pop multi-instrumentalist/singer/songwriter/producer from Long Island, New York. His sound falls somewhere between The Shins and Weezer. I Can't Wait (Feb'16) is an ebullient rock song with a vocal delivery that exudes joy. Unique.

9. Yak - Harbour The Feeling 

Yak are a psych-rock band from London, England. They sound like Pretty Vicious and VANT. Harbour The Feeling (Jan'16) is an intense and furious punk song designed for whipping up an instant crowd frenzy.

8. Sundara Karma - She Said 

Sundara Karma are an indie pop rock band from Reading, England. They sound like Blossoms and Get Inuit. She Said (Aug'16) is a slick and instantly catchy synth-pop song with jangly guitars. The heroin of songs.

7. VANT - Fly-By Alien 

VANT are a punk band from London, England. They sound like Public Access TV and Spring King. Fly-By Alien (Feb'16) is a punk song that takes a swipe at the apathy of the millennial generation. 

6. Nai Harvest - Just Like You

Nai Harvest are a punk duo from Sheffield, England. They sound like Cloud Nothings and The Cribs. Just Like You (Feb'16) is sweet punk with a big scuzzy riff and a shout-it-out-loud chorus. Essential. 

5. PARTYBABY - Your Old Man 

PARTYBABY are an indie rock band with glam stylings from Los Angeles, California. They sound like FIDLAR and SWMRS. Your Old Man (Dec'15) is an anthemic garage rock song that is elevated by the glam rock guitar. A fresh, savage, approach to indie rock.

 4. The Crispies - Bad Blood 

The Crispies are a garage rock band from Vienna, Austria. They sound like The White Stripes and The Arctic Monkeys. Bad Blood (June'16) is a gritty stomper with booming drums, that fires off nasty licks faster than lightening. It reeks of piss and blood in a basement where the band are elevating the crowd to Valhalla.

3. The Amazons - In My Mind 

The Amazons are an indie rock band from Reading, England. They sound between Royal Blood and Oasis. In My Mind (Sept'16) is a powerful rock song propelled by a massive riff, pounding rhythms, dense musical textures and desperate vocals. An indie rock tour de force.  

2. Low Cut High Tops - Lonely And Cold

Low Cut High Tops is multi-instrumentalist and producer David Burns. He is from Seattle, Washington. Low Cut High Tops sounds between The White Stripes and The Pixies. Lonely And Cold (Jan'16) is a grunge song that exudes an off-kilter sexuality while taking off musically with the power of a jet fighter. Blows your fucking head off. 

1. The Courteeners - The 17th 

The Courteeners are an indie rock band from Manchester, England. They sound like The Smiths and Catfish and the Bottlemen. The 17th (Aug'16) has a melancholic synth-pop feel that builds, painfully slowly but inexorably, into a joyful crescendo with a scream-it-to-the-heavens chorus. And that's it. The ultimate cock tease of a song. It'll keep you coming back for more.

VANT - Karma Seeker

1.    Who are these rock heroes?

      VANT are one of the most exciting punk bands to scream out of London since The Clash. Bringing vital life to the English music scene since 2014 they have three short players to their roll of honor. Karma Seeker (June'16) is the lead single from an up-coming fourth EP.

   2. How good is Karma Seeker? 

Karma Seeker is filler compared to some of VANT's previous red-hot efforts. It's all a bit waffley with Red Hot Chili Peppers verses and wank faux philosophical lyrics. But the tune is redeemed by a hard rocking chorus and all in all still rates as rock solid compared to the vast majority of their contemporaries output. 

     

   3. Which bands do VANT sound like?

     Euphoriazine compared Karma Seeker to Nirvana. Generally VANT are similar to FIDLAR, Get Innuit, Public Access TV or even Sundara Karma.

   4. What have the cut and paste bandits said about Karma Seeker?

    “A biting anthem-in-waiting” – Clash Music.

    “Socially aware rock music with a philosophical edge” – Euphoriazine.

    “The hell-raisers are on typically raucous form” – DIY.

   5. Which bands have influenced VANT?

    The prime movers are The Kinks, Fugazi, The Clash and Rage Against The Machine.

   6. Why should I give Karma Seeker a whip past the ears?

     Because it's not shit. From  a band as exciting as VANT all installments on their path to rock'n'roll immortality must be exalted. Get yer snout in the trough.

   7. What other belters have VANT got in the cupboard?

     Fly-By Alien, Parking Lot and Do You Know Me? are all of the highest order.

   8. Any more words peanut?

    Not a dilly.

   “If you search you’ll destroy what you miss”

      Arkells are a very successful alternative rock band from Hamilton, Canada. Playing together since 2006 they have three remarkable albums on their resume and a fourth due in August 2016 and picked up Juno Awards for 2012 and 2015 Group Of The Year and Album Of The Year for High Noon (2014). Book Club (2011) is a track from their second album Michigan Left that didn't rate a single release yet has over half a million You Tube views and a song that Pure Volume said is “impossible not to fall head over heels for those glittering guitars, whimsical harmonies and sixties-inspired vocal lines.”

“Take me to the bus stop Matty,

Drive me back to Hamilton”

VANT - Fly-By Alien

1.    Who are these heroic bruisers?

VANT are a pivotal punk band from London, England. Rarking it up since 2014 and with three short players on their roll of honor, Fly-By Alien (Feb’16) comes belting off their third EP Fly-By Alien (Feb'16).


2. What kind of brickbat are VANT swinging?

Fly-By Alien is a killer punk tune with contrasting rhythms and a healthy serve for self-centred people blinded by the search for emphemeral pleasures. A banger.


3. Who do VANT sound somewhat similar to?

Pretty Vicious, Asylums and The Vines.

4. What have the saints of the fourth estate said about Fly-By Alien?

“Focuses it’s aggression so vehemently” – Noisy Vice.


“Sneers and spits against the apathy of his generation” – DIY.

“A maelstrom of irrepressible melody” – Piccadilly Records.

5. Which bands showed the way for VANT?

VANT get their fire from The Kinks, Fugazi, The Clash and Rage Against The Machine.

6. Why should I give Fly-By Alien a lash?

VANT are one of the hottest bands in England at the minute and the future of rock’n’roll. One of the very few bands who matter, Fly-By Alien continues VANT's fine tradition of rocking first and having a word to the wise later.

7. What other bangers are these heroes slinging?

Parking Lot, The Answer, and Do You Know? are a triumvirate of killer tunes that bang so hard they need to come with an orthopedic surgeons warning.

8. Any more words fool?

VANT have fronted for bands like Royal Blood, FIDLAR and The Bohicas and are taking Get Inuit out to fluff for them in April.

“If you are asleep but won’t dream,

You are a cog in the machine”

Hot Action Cop are a funky alternative rock band out of Nashville, Tennessee. Started in 2001 they have two long players under the bed. Their debut album Hot Action Cop (2003) was led by the single Fever For The Flava that became a soundtrack favorite and Sputnik Music said the band is “infamous for their funk-metal energy and copulation encouraging lyrics.” The men are good for a laugh and the music is the business.

“Gonna strip you down like a car in the barrio”

 

VANT - Parking Lot

 



 

1. Who are these intense looking individuals and why do they like they want to trash the house and bugger the cat?

VANT are a punk rock band from London, England. They have been creating searing tunes since 2014. Parking Lot (Sept'15) comes blazing off their second seven inch of the same name. They have come like the four horsemen to right the injustices of the world.

2. What kind of tune is Parking Lot?

A big ass rocker with a chorus as sticky as a paedos hands after a kindy visit and with garage punk stylings.

3. Who do VANT sound like?

Parking Lot minded me of Pretty Vicious straight off the bat and then Jet, The Vines and The Subways after a bit of thought. Even early Foo Fighters and late Ramones at a stretch.

BBC Radio think if you like Circa Waves, The Strokes or Queens of the Stone Age you will like VANT. QOTSA? For fucks sake you knob jockeys. NME reckon they sound like MC5 warring with Death From Above 1979. The Sunday Times are minded of The Strokes, The Vines, The Manic Street Preachers and The Vines. Clash Music were feeling good Green Day too.

4. What is the good word from the press?

The jackals are feeling the love. Josepvinaixa nailed Parking Lot summing it up as,“A perfect radio-ready rock anthem with a killer chorus.” “A fast, furious and fiery grunge beast,” left fielded Gigwise. “A concoction of stop-start riffs and fiery grunge dynamics”, said Banquet Records, leaving me to reconsider the meaning of ‘grunge’ before Clash Music went up the guts with, “Sagacious garage punk with a groove.”

5. Who are VANT’s influences?

The band get their fire from The Kinks, Frank Black, Fugazi, The Clash, Rage Against The Machine and The Pixies.

Front man Mattie Vant's recent playlist features Wavves,Ty Segal, Tame Impala, Spring King, Clean Cut Kid and Dan Croll among others.

6. Why should I give Parking Lot a spin?

Does anyone remember rock'n'roll with something to say? It's a god damn pleasure to write about bands like this and Louis Berry but it's also as rare as rocking horse shit. Most important Parking Lot has a massive grinding rock sound as hard as being butt fucked with the muddy end of a barge pole, married to a chorus that is so contagious Thai hookers have been issued a health warning.

7. Do VANT have any more bangers?

The Answer is the real deal. A proper showstopper featuring lyrics like “Keep sucking my dick, while my friend fucks your momma” and actually has something to say about the aggression of Western foreign policy and the cost in the east. Do You Know Me? is sound as a pound too.

8. Is there anything else I should know?

On the topic of Parking Lot Mattie Vant has said, “ ‘Parking Lot’ is about boundaries and how people don't respect each other enough. It's to do with the choices we make, particularly when young, and the way those choices can affect other people.’

On the topic of song writing Mr Vant testified, “My concerns are worldwide things. It’s not strictly centred around the UK - it’s wars, global conflict, global warming.”

The band have been on fluffer duties for Royal Blood and fronted shows for The Bohicas, Blossoms and FIDLAR.
 

“ Like a gunshot in a parking lot
No one heard, no one saw ”

 

 

 

Todays slippery seconds is courtesy of Illinois alternative rocker Ike Reilly. The man has words to day about the current political climate in the States on Hangin' Around (2014). He is signed to Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave guitarist, Tom Morello's, Firebrand Records. Tom said of Ike, “In my view, he's one of the best American songwriters of the last 10 years, both in delivery and lyrics. It's, like, part Springsteen, part Replacements.” Hangin' Around is a hard rocking number with a punk message and is the lead track from his highly rated 2015 album On Fire.
 

“I would lick the sweat of the human resource boss

Just to get a little time with her outside of these gates”