US swing merchants Cherry Poppin’ Daddies head to Europe this coming September for live shows. Promoting their ‘White Teeth, Black Thoughts’ release, Steve Perry and co make a rare appearance in the UK at London’s Jazz Cafe on 30th September.
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New video from Dan Vapid & The Cheats
Dan Vapid & The Cheats have posted a new video on YouTube, which you can watch in full below. The video documents clips from their last tour set to a soundtrack of ‘A Long Way’, a track from their second album.
Ten Foot Pole: US summer tour
It’s been ten years since their last studio recordings, but US punks Ten Foot Pole are set to release a new LP next year. In the meantime, the band are setting out on a month long US tour this summer.
All confirmed dates are below.
GENOVIA FOREVER – Shut Up And Listen! EP
With a typeface best associated with UK anarcho-punks Crass and a number of US bands that launched careers in the early 80s, the choice of sleeve art on this EP from Illinois hardcore band Genovia Forever gives listeners a pretty good idea of what to expect. Except, there’s a twist: the band’s name, the people depicted on the sleeve and at least one of these songs provides a direct reference to The Princess Diaries… Odd bedfellows indeed, but those things have inspired this four piece band to make an extremely angry recording – six tracks that recall those times when 7”s in monochrome wraparound sleeves sprang from DIY punk practitioners all across the US.
REAL GONE GOES OUT: ALL – Islington Academy, London 28/04/14
Live shows in the UK by punk legends Descendents are a rarity and appearances by their sister band ALL even rarer. With that in mind, this – ALL’s only UK show in 2014 and their first since forever – seemed like a visit from punk rock royalty. Over the course of almost a quarter-century between 1988 and 2000, the on-again, off-again band recorded some great albums, with 1993’s ‘Breaking Things’ and 1998’s ‘Mass Nerder’ being just as essential in any collection as the Descendents’ seminal ‘Milo Goes To College’, and 1990’s ‘Allroy Saves’ standing as a good example of their more angular, playful and arty styles. A support slot from UK punk stalwarts Snuff only heightened the idea that this one-off gig shouldn’t be missed.