CD-Review

Nothington – Borrowed Time
Wer heute noch mit Blumen im Haar nach San Francisco marschieren will, sollte sie Pogo-fest einflechten. Guter, erdiger Punkrock wächst dieser Tage in der kalifornischen Küstenstadt. Den besten Beweis dafür liefert …

Never Pretend – Never Pretend
Girlie Band. Home-Recording. Metal/Grunge. Zwei dieser Komponenten in einer Platten-Review, schon werden die Mundwinkel des Lesers für gewöhnlich von einem mitleidigen Grinsen gen Stirnbein gezogen. Hinter letzterem reift sogleich der …

MxPx – PLANS WITHIN PLANS
It’s been a while since I enjoyed a classic skatepunk record as much as Plans Within Plans. Classic, that’s the spirit of the early nineties, the four-chord-magic of in-yer-face-punk, mixed …

Archers and Arrows – Archers and Arrows (EP)
Kommen dem stets nach prägnanten Anfangs- und Schlussformulierungen gierendem Musikkritiker Titel à la Archers and Arrows unter, beginnen seine Gedanken unwillkürlich um Wortwitze mit pfeilgespickten Zielscheibenmitten, überspannten …

Useless ID – Symptoms
A dead-end evening had me pinned to my couch, bored into mind-freeze and scanning the ceiling for divine intervention. The phone kicked me out of my stupor, my friend Tom asking …

Emma Hallows – Anchors Up! (EP)

The other night, tristesse came pouncing on me at my doorstep and …almost knocked me off my feet. The unromantic kind, not that bittersweet, life-rebooting experience I’d always imagined

Swamped and Sunken (The Badassed Records Compilation No.2)
…Christmas is all around us, not in the heaps of rotting snow on the sidewalks, not in those catchy it’s-that-time-of-year-again-tunes we usually grind our teeth to in

Yellow cap – Like it or not
Das Alternativstandl der Christkindlmarkt-Peripherie meines Vertrauens sucht noch nach einem geeigneten Christmassoundtrack. Ich schlage hiermit Like it or not …vor, pressfrischste Platte der Herren Yellow cap, tanztauglich swingenden

Dead To Me – Moscow Penny Ante
Drifting downstream on the mother of all online shop torrents, waiting to be clicked into carts and distributed by diligent postmen around Europe, comes a record I’ve been …

Roadkill Rodney – Stones reveal the reality
Roadkill Rodney impress – first and foremost by the incredible “Reach what we deserve”, the crown jewels of Stones, a song I wouldn’t have thought a young …

Supported by:
A goodbye (not a farewell) waved from a decrepit van headed for the Epitaph sunset. Not exactly a “fuck you” but rather a “thanks for nothing, now get lost” targeting the people who …

State of Unrest – Atlas Losing Grip

When Hearing the Voice “CEO” Miguel asks me to do a review, he usually drops a few comments on the band he wants me to write about. Sometimes, …

For all the people who have never heard of Strung Out which I doubt, now it’s your chance to get familiar with them. For all of those who already know them, what can I say? …

Swingin Utters – Here, Under Protest

In train between here and thers, between somewhere and nowhere. 4 hours to go until I reach my destination. The best time to put in a new record and …

La mafia non è un problema che riguarda solo il sud italia, ma il paese intero. Lo sanno bene i Talco, gruppo pank-chanka del veneto che, già dal loro esordio con il primo cd “Tutti …

Disco Balls – Rise and Shine

Imagine a rented SUV baking under the hot Mexican sun. Picture yourself on the backseat: bathed in sweat, trying to sit still and ignore the heat. A friend of …

New Riot – riot.sleep.repeat
By: Leo Dworschak

How to recognize an awesome skapunk record:
1) It’s packed with loads of offbeats and walking base lines. (Duh.)
2) String and brass sections don’t engage in a …

Recall To Life – What It Takes To Uncover The Fakes
By: Stefan Höller

Listening to the first few seconds of the first track let’s you recognize what ‘Recall To Life’ stands for: fast, exact …

Far From Finished – Forgettable
By: Leo Dworschak

Many an Austrian is more familiar with the Boston music scene than any of its local equivalents. That’s the type who’s into Street Punk, the type who …

When the Flatliners perform, they perform with a vengeance – a vengeance palpable on Cavalcade. Mightily roar the guitars, driven by Chris Cresswell’s gruff voice (Shane McGowan meets Greg Graffin) adding some…
edge to the…