At the tail end of 2013, US punks Science Club released their ‘Aging Punks’ EP, a mid-budget, fairly ragged affair that captured a great energy. Just over a year on, their ‘Day Job’ full length brings more of the same. While the eleven songs are culled from recordings made over a four year period, the album hangs together well. Even with an obviously DIY recording style and ragged production, the musical talents within the band are still obvious – particularly those of bassist Nick, whose busy approach provides the real heart of most of the material.
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THE SNOOKYS – Junk Food
The Snookys released their first EP in 2009. Since that time, the Bergamo-based band’s music has gone through a few changes: their 2010 full length ‘Set The World On Fire!’ is a sharp and well-produced foray into punk ‘n’ roll, like Rocket From The Crypt tackled at a Ramones speed, by 2012 they’d retooled their energy into a far more trebly garage rock sound. Their evolution continued, and with that a descent into even rawer sounds. By the time of 2014’s ‘Junk Food’, their sound had become even more lo-fi, but this only served to give their garage rock chops an even more live feel.
Face To Face: upcoming US live dates
US punks Face To Face will be playing a run of dates in the US throughout March and April. The dates will feature the band playing their first three full length releases – ‘Don’t Turn Away’, ‘Big Choice’ and ‘Face To Face’ – in their entirity. There are currently no plans to bring the show to Europe.
LATTE+ – No More Than Three Chords
Even if their name isn’t particularly familiar in the UK or US, Italy’s Latte+ have attracted a cult following on home turf. With 2014’s ‘No More Than Three Chords’ – the band’s sixth full-length and first English language disc- gaining US distribution, that very much represents a definite step towards world domination for the punk quartet.
Mr T Experience: Upcoming gigs
Legendary pop-punk band The Mr. T Experience are playing three shows in California in March with The Queers. The band gained a cult following throughout the nineties and disbanded when frontman Dr. Frank followed his other career as a novelist.
A new MTX track, ‘King Dork Approximately’ appeared in December.