TOUTS are a punk/indie rock band from Derry, Ireland. Can't Blame Me (Oct'18) is the lead single from their third E.P. Analysis Paralysis (Nov'18). TOUTS sound like Stiff Little Fingers and The Clash. TOUTS influences are The Clash and Stiff Little Fingers! Can't Blame Me has more of a sixties sound like The Who though while despairing against the cynical tactics of modern politicians. The best TOUTS song is Political People.
SHARP/SHOCK are a punk band from Southern California. The singer and guitarist are British/Kiwi. SHARP/SHOCK started in 2015 and Troublemaker (Oct'17) is the third single from their debut album Unlearn Everything (2017).
2. What kind of song is Troublemaker?
Troublemaker sounds like classic British punk with a ska undertone but a modern drum sound. Clash guitar and Jam vocals while the bass bubbles and the drums drive hard to the finish line. No-ones reinventing the wheel here.
SHARP/SHOCK released their second album Youth Club today.
“You
wrote ‘I Fought The Law’,
But
the law won that day”
Autonomics are an garage rock/power pop band from Portland, Oregon. They have been making tunes since 2008 and have one album Debt Sounds (2017). Autonomics have been compared to The Thermals and The Dandy Warhols. They are influenced by Japandroids and The Strokes. Bad Blood is an album track from Debt Sounds and Japandroids come through thick on this one. Fucking quality. Autonomics are a band on the rise.
“We
drove away from the city, drove away from the city
TOUTS
are a punk band from Derry, Ireland. Political People (May'17) is the lead single from their debut E.P. Sickening and Deplorable (May'17). 2. What kind of tune is Political People? Classic edgy punk, balls deep in crunching guitar and with caustic vocals. Tight as a nuns cunt. 3. Who do TOUTS sound like? The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, and Green Day.
Some of their influences are The Clash, The Stiff Little Fingers, The Undertones, and The Dubliners.
6. Why should I give Political People a listen?
Because you love popular punk with a word to say.
7. What are the TOUTS best tunes?
Political People is top of the pile but Sold Out is a banger too.
8. Any more words?
These lads aren't out of school yet and they are scoring support slots for bands like Kasabian and Paul Weller.
“I
hate the same old way”
Benjamin Booker is a blues/boogie/garage/punk rock musician from Virginia Beach, Virginia. His main influences are Gun Club, T.Rex and Blind Willie Johnson. Benjamin Booker's music has been compared to White Stripes, Kings Of Leon, and The Strokes. Right On You (April'17) is the second single from his second album Witness (June'17). Right On You is an urgent, bluesy, garage rock song that Stereogrampraised for its, “swaggering,
bluesy strut.”
5. Which bands put the fire in 131's belly? The bands that influenced the 131's are Rancid, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Birthday Party and Rose Tattoo. 6. Why should I give Distorted Images a fair crack of the whip? Distorted Images is the finest kind of punk rock; social commentary without a baseball bat to the head and ripping riffs. Killer key change in the last chorus too. 7. What are 131's best songs? This Ain't Culture is their debut tune and remains their finest. 8. Any more words? Singer and guitarist Luke Yeoward fronted rock'n'reggae band King Cannons.
“That
don’t mean much to me”
.
Stacked Like Pancakes are a ska punk/brass rock band from Towson, Maryland. The band started in 2007 and six or seven of the band members got degrees at Towson University. Stacked Like Pancakes sound like Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake. They are influenced by Reel Big Fish, twenty one pilots and Cage The Elephant. Dangerous Beginnings is an album track from THIS IS US (2015). Dangerous Beginnings is the perfect ska song borrowing from familiar ska punk tropes and twisting them into inventive new shapes. An improbably inventive song.
Jamie T is a popular indie rock/alternative hip hop
artist from London, England. He started cranking out the tunes in 2005 and Tescoland (Nov’16) is the third single
from his third album Trick (Sept’16).
The album Trick reached #3 on the
U.K. album charts.
2. What's this Tescoland like?
Tescoland is an upbeat, handclappy, punk effort with a bouncy beat and a side of ska. Like any good fighter Jamie T mixes it up.
3. Who does Jamie T sound like?
The Clash, Rat Boy and The Kooks.
4. What's the good word from the papers?
“The
riffed-up reggae of ‘Tescoland’ is worthy of a sneaky place on ‘Combat Rock’” –
NME.
“Would
not be out of place amongst the livelier tracks by The Clash” – The Edge.
“Propelled
by a chugging, breezy Clash-influenced guitar line” – Headstuff.
5. Which bands inspired Jamie T?
The main influences on the new album are The Clash, Oasis,
The Arctic Monkeys, Slaves and Wu-Tang Clan.
6. Why should I give Tescoland a spin?
The multi-dimensional rhythms and the old school punk make Tescoland special.
7. Does Jamie T have any more tunes worth a poke?
Zombie was NME's song of the year in 2014, another ska tinged singalong and hands down his best track. Robin Hoodis another Clash-esque banger and Hocus Pocus is top notch n'all.
8. Any more words Johnny?
Get your snout in the trough of Jamie T's goodness.
“But
it’s hard for Americans,
To
really understand”
Talisco is Jerome Amandi, an electro-folk musician from Bordeaux, France. His music is produced in English and is similar to The Mowglis, Team Me or Satellite Stories. His debut album was Run (2014) and the hit single was an indie dance pop song The Keys. The Keys is feel- good, inspirational bombast.
Green Day are perhaps the finest punk band to ever walk the planet. Green Day were conceived in East Bay, California, in 1986. There is no doubt it was an immaculate conception. The band have labored hard and sent down twelve long players of gospels to the huddled masses. Bless their hearts. Green Day have sold over 75 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock'N'Roll Hall Of Fame in 2015; their first year of eligibility. Revolution Radio (Sept'16) is the second single released from the album of the same name Revolution Radio (Oct'16).
2. Do the boys have anything left in the gas tank?
Does a rapist sweat in church? Revolution Radio is straight for the jugular political punk rock and the band are incendiary. Revolution Radio pulses with malice and launches jagged licks over a blitzkrieg of riffs. This is Green Day at their finest, firing on all cylinders, fury unleashed. The band have fired off a missive about the state of the nation, and it ain't pretty, and a call to arms to the rebels prepared to fight for a better world. 3. Who do Green Day sound like? Rancid, The Offspring, The Living End, Stiff Little Fingers and The Clash. 4. What have the venerable scribes in the press said about Revolution Radio?
“A
big snotty hook and a sense of speed” – Stereogum.
5. Which bands were instrumental in carving out Green Day's genius? The main Green Day influences are Husker Du, The
Replacements, The Ramones, Queen, The Who and Cheap Trick. 6. Why should I give Revolution Radio a fair crack of the whip? Green Day have served up another chapter in their long history of phenomenal rock and roll and it doesn't get any better than this. Revolution Radio is visceral and vital and asks a question that only you can answer. Are you prepared to put up with this shit show? 7. What are the other gems in Green Day's crown? When I Come Around, Know Your Enemy and Oh Love are the crown jewels. 8. Any more words whipping boy? The new album Revolution Radio was self-produced by the band for the first time since Warning (2000).
“Sing
like a rebels lullaby,
Under
the stars and stripes”
The double dip today is a Green Day crowd singing Queen’s
Bohemian Rhapsody at the Emirates Stadium, London, 2013. Queen are one of the greatest rock bands to ever step on stage. They started rocking in 1970 and recorded thirteen albums selling up to 300 million copies worldwide. Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)was Queen's most successful song, selling millions of copies and is one of the best selling singles of all time; topping charts around the world. Listen to a Green Day crowd sing it. Jump to before the two
minute mark for the best bit if you must. It's pure fucking magic.
“So
you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So
you think you can love me and leave me to die?”
