South City Locos - Punkrock's Dead (2011)

South City is Malmö, Sweden and "Locos" are a fire-bursting Street punk crew that will make you mosh in your own room if necessary. When I first heard them, I thoght they are from California or US Southwest, because of the name, well-pronounced English and sudden appereance of Mexican Mariachis at the end of the title song. Some great lyrics that song has. White Feathers, Good Times and Punkrock's Dead are, in my opinion, maybe the best songs on this album, but others are not far away. So listen them and remember - Punkrock's dead... we killed it again.

01. Front Towards Enemy
02. Cool Smooth Latino Dude
03. Guilty Party
04. Let The Havoc Shine
05. Bully Beatdown
06. White Feathers
07. Good Times
08. Outlaw For Life
09. Hörnsten
10. Beneath The Underground
11. Punkrock's Dead
12. Sooth The Pain (Bonus)


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Wasted - Outsider By Choice (2011)

The newest work from these Tampere/Helsinki based Finnish Punk-rockers, delivering some older songs as the new ones. Their sound can be described as old-school Punk rock with melancholic feel and quite original and aware lyrics.
 
01 - Reason To Believe
02 - Human Landmine
03 - From The Gutter To The Grave
04 - Career Suicide
05 - Water On The Flame
06 - The Nightmares Of 1984
07 - Hunter Gatherer
08 - Rat Traps
09 - This Country's Going To Hell
10 - Outsider By Choice
11 - Burn It Down (Reclaim The Crown)
12 - Information Overload
13 - Doom Train
14 - Modern World Is Dead
15 - Where Criminals Walk Free
16 - Family Life
17 - Fear Is The Enemy

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Stumbling Pins - Aged Colours And Behaviours (2012)

Young Punx from Kiel, Germany, released their first album in 2012 Aged Colours And Behaviours that features 9 songs. It's basically Street Punk with very melodic singing (one would call it Pop-Punk but whatever) and highly socially engaged lyrics. All songs are swell, but the chorus on Aged Colours And Behaviours with amazing sing-a-long (A.C.A.B.!) is definatelly the top-moment of this album. These boys are really worth checking out and supporting them.

01 - On The Roads To Nowhere
02 - The Money
03 - Generation Fear
04 - Kill Me If You Can
05 - Follow The Lie
06 - Aged Colours And Behaviours
07 - Paradise Breakdown
08 - Forgotten Souls
09 - Abused Bodies


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Beans - So It Goes (2002)

 This album, with a Vonnegutian title, is the second one by the hands of Beans. Unlike Sundown, from 2006, which I already posted, this album is a bit more hardcore, faster and angrier. But, by no means any worse. It's hard to highlight any songs, but Cold Hearted and Hating Men are extremely uplifting and ass-kicking.


1. Machine
2. No Destination
3. Don't Judge Me
4. Cold Hearted
5. My Generation
6. Carry On
7. Drop Dead
8. Can't Tell You
9. This Town
10. Hating Men
11. Fuck Off
12. Responsibility
13. Falling Back
14. Destructive
15. Can't Trust 'em
16. The Way To Go

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Standard Union - Demo (2010)

Standard union are from Adelaide, Australia and these guys play rudimentary Street Punk-rock with some Folk touch, similar to Swingin Utters. This is the demo release from 2010, although they play since 2002 so you should keep eye on them and their work in the future. For me, an ultimate hit from this demo is a song "As The Bottle Empties". You can hear some of the songs here.

01 - A Worker's Prayer
02 - Born For Hanging
03 - Such Is Life
04 - As The Bottle Empties
05 - The Slide
06 - Les Darcy
07 - Old Boys
08 - The Lonely Victories
09 - Treading On Family Ground
10 - Botany Bay
11 - One Way Fair
12 - Fading White Lines
13 - Tall Poppies
 

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VA - Sofia Streets: 3 way split

This 3 way split from the streets of Sofia is delivering 3 different styles of Hardcore music: C4 plays Hardcore music in the vein of NYHC bands, TVU is more like a Hardcore Oi band and Switchstance offers Skacore sound with trombones. It's really worth checking this one out.

01-C4-Nikoi ne moje da ni spre
02-C4-Nie pak sme tuk
03-C4-Bring me back
04-C4-Priberi se
05-C4-Wake up
06-T.V.U.-Izgubih control
07-T.V.U.-Priako vkliuchvane
08-T.V.U.-Izbori, momentat nastapi!
09-T.V.U.-Ne stavai rob
10-T.V.U.-Borbata produljava
11-Switchstance-Who are you to decide
12-Switchstance-War
13-Switchstance-Faces
14-Switchstance-The crowd (Operation Ivy cover)
15-Switchstance-Aggression

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Whiskey Rebels - These Inside Jokes Are Killing Me (2012)

Whiskey Rebels is a streetpunk band from Sacramento and this is their newest release with rare and unreleased material, including 4 tracks from their '99 demo. Streets gave you to me, Yolo bus blues and Final call are really worth to download it.

01 - Live And Die For Those Who Love
02 - America
03 - Sacto United ('99 Demo)
04 - Six Gun Sally
05 - Ward Of The State
06 - Element Of Surprise
07 - Ready To Die
08 - Yolo Bus Blues
09 - Get Lose
10 - Streets Gave You To Me ('99 Demo)
11 - Final Call ('99 Demo)
12 - County Time
13 - Roll The Dice ('99 Demo)
14 - Holiday Master Plan
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King Cannons - King Cannons (2011)

 

 

For all fans of good music: punks, rockabillys, reggae and ska-loving skinheads and regular rock'n'roll fans this is a must-have. King Cannons from Melbourne, Australia deliver to you awesome combination of punk rock, rockabilly and reggae. The Clash has risen from dead and they left their unresting need for experiment and funky-pop elements in the grave. Their name is now King Cannons!

01 - Take Me Away
02 - Gasoline
03 - This Night
04 - Teenage Dreams
05 - Life Of Convenience
06 - Maybellene
07 - Take The Rock
08 - Teenage Dreams
09 - Smoked Out City
10 - Time To Yourself
11 - Stand Right Up
12 - Shot To Kill
13 - Too Young (Bonus Single)

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Secret Army - Crush the remains (2012)

A new album by the hands and throats of these 3 fellas from Barcelona. Much like their previous releases, this one is a powerful collection of angry, yet melodic songs. Tearing guitar riffs and middle-fast tempo with very catchy and melodic singalong chourses in the vein of Rancid and Cock Sparrer. However, their musical evolution is noticeable and despite listening to a plenty of other similar bands, I feel that Secret Army has something special. This album is released in just perfect time for being a soundtrack of this spring.

01 - Combat Ready
02 - Guns At The Door
03 - Another Way
04 - Sleepless In Stockholm
05 - Uprising
06 - War Economy
07 - New Direction
08 - Bitterboy's Ballad
09 - Days Gone By On The Ropes
10 - Fighting Man
11 - Said And Done
12 - Face Our Fear
13 - Where We Come From

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Inner Terrestrials - IT (1997)

 

Inner Terrestrials are a London-based Anarcho Punk band with frequent Ska, Dub and Folk elements in their music. This is, in my opinion their best release and it represents IT's music very well.

01 Squatters Rights

02 Outside
03 Earth Must
04 Criminals
05 Free The Land
06 Burning Bridges
07 White Nightmare
08 KTB

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Cranked Up - This Is A Weapon (2005)

This is a second full-length edition by Cranked Up!with some songs from their previous album. The band continues to play awesome punk-rock and to write lyrics against US foreign and domestic politics and corporate exploitation.

01 - Get Out
02 - Deal With It
03 - Swindled
04 - You Are The Fool
05 - Make Me Sick
06 - Another Vietnam
07 - Shoutdown
08 - It's Not Right
09 - Change In You
10 - Exploitation
11 - New Regime
12 - On The Attack

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Cranked Up - A Call For Solidarity (2003)

I'm back again with this master-piece. Cranked Up is a streetpunk band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US and consists of ex-members of bands like Violent Society, 2.5 Children, Bomb Squadron and Dead Empty. Their music is pure "in your face" street level punk-rock with anti-fascist attitude (which is obvious judging by the album covers). They call themselves "left wing scum" :D Every song is fucking brilliant, but I would highlight songs like Emo-tionally challenged, Guilty Conscience, Left Wing Scum, Jaded, Don't Need Your Culture and an excellent cover of mod punk band The Cigarettes They're Back Again. Their sound can be described as a mix of Pressure Point and Lower Class Brats so you better download it before mediafire deletes this link!

01 - All Fucked Up 

02 - Emo Tionally Challenged 

03 - Guilty Conscience 

04 - Left Wing Scum 

05 - Jaded 

06 - Follow The Trail 

07 - Under Their Control 

08 - Don't Need Your Culture 

09 - Swindled 

10 - New Regime 

11 - Where You Stand 

12 - Make Me Sick 

13 - On The Attack 

14 - They're Back Again (The Cigarettes Cover)

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Malignus Youth - Vinyl CD (1999)

While I listen mostly Streetpunk and Hardcore music, I like to take pauses from "classic" punk riffs and shouting every now and then. So this band was an important revelation for me. Everything about this band is interesting, starting from their background: they come from Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona, the middle of nowhere were Apaches used to roam. Their basic musical layer is fast hardcore punk, but vocals build complex harmonic structure similar to medieval religious choruses and classical music. If anything, one should check this band, because of its extraordinary originallity and boundary breaking, not to mention great music.

1. Malignus Youth
2. I Think I Know
3. Go Ahead
4. Again
5. So This Is Life
6. In These Thoughts
7. Power Trip
8. The Only Unknown
9. Charlie
10. Who Could Say
11. When I Grow Up
12. Childhood Dreams
13. Push-pull
14. No Escape
15. Youth In Asia
16. Sue
17. Life, Lies, Truth
18. Hopelessly Insane
19. Carousel
20. The Riff
21. Middle Eastern Tune
22. Family
23. Crazy
24. Stains
25. Worlds
26. Of The World
27. States
28. Tension
29. Weak Air
30. From Dust To Dust
31. Why Is War?
32. Dancing Through The Fleshhold
33. More To It

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Holy Racket - Subliminal Chaos EP (2003)

This band is unfortunatelly no more, they are from Sunderland, UK and play classic street punk rock with a melodic touch, similar to Rancid and other american bands.

01 - Total Attack
02 - Rat In The Pack
03 - UK Hate
04 - Escapology
05 - Wrong ID
06 - Joey Still Ain't Seen It
07 - Stay Down

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Beans - Sundown (2006)

A punk rock deliquatese. Beans are a dutch streetpunk band, but their music reflects likes of such punk legends as The Clash, Bad Religion and Rancid, with unique ska punk and even dub spice brought to mix. Social commentary in lyrics is strong and it blends great with anthemic chourses, awesome music and apocalyptical artwork design. They aren't ashamed to use wide vocabulary and musical abilities, with no loss in roughness. On some of the songs, there is an organ present, ska style. If you find bands like The Filaments, Antidote, Operation Ivy and Bad Religion great, you'll love this band, because it sounds like a bastard child of the aforementioned bands. One of the best records I've heard in a long time - strongly recommended!

1. Radio Silence
2. Tomorrow
3. Halos
4. Circular Reasoning
5. Hey Now, What Now
6. When Governments Clash
7. Answers
8. My Reaction
9. Bad Plan
10. Only Natural
11. Set Sail
12. Down The Line
13. Sundown

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Damage Case - Tyranny (2006)

Hardcore Punk band from Dallas, Texas. They basically play hardcore punk like Broken Bones or Dr. Know, but with a slight melodic touch similar to the early Social D

01 - Death Threat
02 - Violator
03 - No Leaders
04 - Hit To Reality
05 - Fire The Last
06 - Tyranny
07 - Blood Sell
08 - Mass control
09 - Prepare To Die
10 - Show You No Mercy

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The Rebel Spell - Four Songs About Freedom (2007)

Just discovered this band and it's fucking awesome. Melodic streetpunk + non-generic lyrics and anti-capitalist attitude. Canada strikes again. Highly recommended!

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01 - Can't Fool Me
02 - I Am A Rifle
03 - Please Resist
04 They Know

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Greg Graffin - Cold As A Clay (2006)

Second solo album by Bad Religion's singer Greg Graffin. In his own words, it's an hommage to american folk and country rock music which influenced his work in BR. Great listening experience.

01. Don't Be Afraid to Run
02. Omie Wise
03. Cold As the Clay
04. Little Sadie
05. Highway
06. Rebel's Goodbye
07. Talk About Suffering
08. Willie Moore
09. California Cotton Fields
10. Watchmakers Dial
11. One More Hill

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Kids Of The Street - Get Off EP (2011)

Streetpunk band from Voskresensk, Russia. This is a new EP by them and it's fucking good.

01 - A Good Day
02 - One Of Us
03 - Get Off!
04 - Mountain River

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