Screeching Weasel legend to join The Radio Buzzkills at one-off gig

 

twenty-sevens-logoIn the 80s and 90s, many punk pop bands took their cue from Ramones and set about creating similarly fast paced tunes with simple and catchy hooks. In the twenty first century, there are still hundreds of bands plying their craft and playing what many have now dubbed Ramonescore. As the years pass, however, it’s just as likely that these bands were just as influenced by The Mr. T Experience, The Queers and Screeching Weasel. One such band, Missouri’s Radio Buzzkills, released their ‘The Quick and The Cheap’ via Braindead Records in the spring of 2016, but heading into 2017 – and celebrating their fifteenth anniversary – they are about to hit a career high.

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New video from Lasers Lasers Birmingham

In July 2016, Lasers Lasers Birmingham released a four track EP exploring different elements of country music.  While the Band-esque ‘Shedd Aquarium’ was undoubtedly the highlight, each number showed Lasers’ head honcho Alex Owen to be a man with a well-rounded talent.

The title cut, ‘Royal Blue’ now has an official video, which you can watch in full below.

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Louise Distras: Upcoming tour dates

UK-based punk oriented singer songwriter Louise Distras has a run of live dates upcoming.  The dates follow her appearances at this years Rebellion Festival and coincide with the release of a new single, ‘Aileen’, which is available via Street Revolution Records on September 30th.

Someone who uses her position for social activism and change, recently, Louise joined Real Gone, Stay Up Late and Skin Back Alley in our fight surrounding the release of the new Descendents album and against the usage of the word sp*z.  (Real Gone’s original piece can be found here…and a follow up can be found here.)

Louise and her band’s next live dates are as follows:

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