Mr. P. Reviews Dope Music
Escape Velocity Provide a Fast, Melodic Does of Hardcore Mixed Metal and Pop Punk
In specific, their song “Violence and Vanity” has the sound of a band that could have been on early Fat Wreck Chords comps with bands like No Use For A Name, Lagwagon or Strung Out that were fast paced pop punk with elements of metal that just made them sick to skate board to.
Polluted Womb Feel Your Deep Seated Pain
This is some gnarly ass thrashtastic music! Mixing hardcore, punk, dbeat, and grindcore! FFO of Disrupt, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, and ACxDC!
Nobro’s New Single Has a Singular Message: “Let’s Do Drugs”
So I totally dig this song despite being drug free beyond alcohol and caffeine. I even live in Woodstock, NY, and I don’t smoke weed. Lame I know. That being said this song just rips. I don’t know if they mean it or if they are just tonuge and cheeking it, and I don’t really care. A good song is a good song and this is a damn good song.
Discord Theory Hid From Me Right in Plain Sight: But I See You Now!
Hailing from Tampa this band has been bringing the post hardcore mixed with pop punk and more to the west coast of Florida for years. As many of you know I just moved away from Orlando, Fl after 15 years, so I wasn’t there when my buds at Montgomery Drive booked them at Will’s Pub in July. The real question is why I haven’t seen them before I left? Were they not in Orlando sooner? Did I know go to Tampa enough? Why weren’t they on Florida Underground Fest? They damn well should be next year!
Caroline & The Treats Help Honor the Memory of One of The Greats: Kim Shattuck!
Like many people my age, my first exposure to Kim Shattuck and thus the Muffs was her guest appearance “Lori Meyers” off of NOFX’s Punk in Drublic album. It is my fond memories of that discovery and the following Muffs albums that had led me to break my rule about not reviewing covers songs to review a cover song of the Muff’s “Become Undone” by Caroline and The Treats.
Fuzzy Dysfunction’s “Doppler Effect” May Be About Self Doubt, But There Is No Doubting This Song Rocks!
The song starts off with some straight forward fast and catchy punk rock with cleanish melodic vocals. Right before the chorus there are some group harmonized vocals echoing the last sylabull of the previous word “enemy” which sounds like “me” “me” and “me” which is indicative of this songs introspective nature.
Literally Anything But Bros are NOT Your Fucking Friends!
Hailing from Turkey, this riotgrrrl-esque punk band brings it hard and in your face! Right from the bat, I love the band name and it’s slap in the face of bro-culture. Then the song itself reminded me of a time I told a co-worker that we weren’t friends because we were merely work acquaintances and the minute we stopped working together we’d never speak to each other.
Teenage Halloween’s New Single: “Takeaway” Yearns for More Than “Survival”
Thanks to Don Giovanni records for releasing the dope new album by Teenage Halloween, Till You Return! I haven’t had a chance to scope out the whole album yet, but this first single bring their NJ “power punk” right up to your doorstep and into your world without so much as a “How’s your mother?” i.e. it’s a banger!
The Ivy League Want You To “Be Anything You Need” and Get “Everything You Ever Wanted”
Have you ever felt alone? Like you didn’t belong? Like no matter how hard you tried, you’d never find those people that get you? You’d need to spend your whole life code switching to fit in with others at school, work or even in social situations? Then the Ivy League is for you. They want you to join their family. Not in a cultish way, in a we’ve all been there before, and we all want one thing in life–to be accepted for who we are with all of our flaws and our nooks and crannies out in the open. Their new EP, Everything I Ever Wanted, opens with their title track and lays down some indie/emo-punk posicore that would fit in at any diy show full of disaffected youth or adults with lyrics like “We can be anything we need, welcome to the Ivy League. Just to be a part of this is all I ever wanted” The this being the place that we can call "home". This is literally felt when I discovered punk rock. It wasn’t just a third place between home and school/work, it was my actual home–it was a collection of misfits that knew how to accept me for who I was and not what they expected of me.
Premiere of SLUTAVVERKNING’s “Grisar” is grimy, dirty, disturbing and hard not too love
Slutavverkning’s newest single “Grisar” is a grimy, dirty and disturbing song. Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, I can’t understand what they are singing, and I had to look up the meaning of the song to find out that Grisar means pig–more on this in a moment. When I read about the band, I saw they were from various other bands, but the only one that I really knew was Opeth. This is not Opeth. This is The Melvins or Sonic Youth mixed with hardcore and metal. But it’s also more than that. Amidst it’s growling vocals and downstroked plodding mayhem, it makes space for dissonant and discordant jazz.
1983’s New Album, Ne3, is The Banger Release of the Summer!
I first saw 1983 at Bloodfest 2 in 2019 at Uncle Lou’s put on by Violent Breed Records. They were totally rad dudes, and put on a sick show filled with aggressive 80’s style hardcore. I’d seen them off and on over the years with the final time being at the Ft. Pierce Punk Rock Flea Market this last fall. And if I dug them before, I was literally wet in three places for them now. Their new bassist and drummer just took their shit to the next fucking level. So it was with great excitement that I checked out their newest release, Ne3, this last week.
Estonia’s Feel Hope Harkens Back to the Hardcore of the Late 1990s
Estonian hardcore punk at it’s best….
Your Best Nightmare is the Kind of Nightmare that I’d Wish on My Kids
I still remember being stoked to see Eddie Vedder on his ukulele tour, and then I got sick and couldn’t make the show. From that point on ukulele went deep into the recesses of my mental filing cabinet of short lived DIY musical styles. Since then I have recorded a great horror punk band in Florida that uses a ukulele, Swear Wolf, with a live album pending, discovered The ukulele punk rock of the Margaret Hooligans from Philly and now found out about Your Best Nightmare who use horror themes, punk rock soul and a ukulele to make some damn fine music.
10 New Punk Songs of the Week
10 new punk songs ranging from pop punk, ska punk, hardcore, deathgrind and more!
What if the robots from Mystery Science Theater 3000 joined with The Aquabats to Form a Ska band?
What’s that? A band called Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra? Okay–You’ve got my attention. Wait! What? It’s robo-rocksteady? What the F is that? Okay. Let’s take a step back. I got this. I have seen the metal band Captured by Robots, so I can get down with the idea of robot ska.
Simesky+Fritch’s Newest Singles Have Me Wanting to Dance All Night at The Local Goth Bar!
The moment I heard Simesky + Fritch’s newest single, “Back and Down Again”, I was immediately taken back to 1991 when I was all of 15. My boss at Roy Rogers, Mr. Feldt (The one and only time in my life, I couldn’t call a boss by their first name–kinda like Mr. Burns in the Simpsons), took me and my girlfriend to see Depeche Mode and The The. I was a metal head who was slowly becoming a hardcore punk, but I had a soft spot for gothic dance music especially with that 80’s New Wave sound. In other words, that soft spot went all gooey when I heard this song as well as the other song they shared, “Colour Running Away”.
Goodbye Sunshine Lit Up My Day with Their New Album: People Will Like You When You Stop Being Yourself
Whether you’re a nearly 50 year old punk like me who loves to be taken back to the glory days of Lookout Records with bands like Screaching Weasel, The Mr. T Experience, The Queers, The Riverdales, The Donnas i.e. any other pop punk band with Ramonescore overtones or if you’re a recent convert to the oooh aaaahs and joy of pogoing in your room to “happy” sounding tunes with lyrics that are often more sardonic or acerbic than joyful, then this newest release by Goodbye Sunshine, People Will Like You When You Stop Being Yourself, is for you! (That is one long ass sentence. Hmmm Hemmingway might be proud…of course Faulkner would scoff at the insignificance of my word count).
Inherit The Ashes’ New Single, “Idolmaker”, is a Black Metal Banger!
Inherit the Ashes may have spawned from the proverbial remains of Rage Of Samedi, but they’ve left behind the doom and sludge metal and moved into classic death and black metal! That doesn’t mean there aren’t any slow parts. Their newest release, “Idolmaker” starts off with a slow build but quickly moves into a thrashtastic banger! I always love metal drumming even though it’s outside of my ability, that’s why I play hardcore punk–it’s fast but simple. This dude is great. Sick timing and rad fills. The chorus where that snare is hitting machine gun like steady blast beats is just killer!
Guitarmy Of One’s Recent Single, “Top Secret Agent Man on a Wire Tapped Phone at Sea” melds surf, spycraft, and punk vitality!
The song’s title, as well as its musicality, pays an homage to Johnny River’s song from the 60’s “Secret Agent Man” but mixed with surf, a Spanish guitar, and that punk essence that clings to everyone one of us that has come of age as a punk.
From The Other Side’s Newest Single, “Toxic Heart”, melds pop punk and melodic metal in all the right ways!
You mention Australia to someone and ask them to name a band, most will say AC/DC and then depending on their age they might say Men at Work or Silverchair or if they are a punk like me they might mention The Saints, Frenzal Rhomb or A Living End (I played a sick show with them in 2004 in DC), but nobody would mention From the Other Side….yet. Give it time. I’m trying to decide if their name is because they are on the other side of the world…at least from my northern hemisphere perspective, if they are fans of Fallout Boy or if they love the soundtrack and movie Greatest Showman. I’ll accept either as a viable answer.