The Hanson Brothers are a Canadian punk rock band based in Vancouver, British Columbia and led by John and Rob Wright and Tom Holliston, all members of the punk rock band Nomeansno.
The Hanson Brothers’ band name references characters in the cult ice hockey film Slap Shot. Heavily influenced by the music of the Ramones and the sport of ice hockey, the band appears to be a self-conscious attempt to construct a set of simplistic Canadian male personas and accordingly simple music that alludes to the sorts of deeper philosophical issues NoMeansNo is prone to tackling. The band’s music is frequently referred to as “puck rock.”
American Steel is an American punk rock band formed in 1995 in Oakland, California. When offered their first show, the group took their name from the block-long sign on the warehouse across the street. After playing at parties and smaller venues around the Bay Area for over a year, and undergoing several lineup changes, the band bought a van and embarked on their first tour of the US, lasting 32 days and covering 12,000 miles…read more on Wikipedia and visit the band’s facebook Page
WILD FLAG is a Portland, Oregon and Washington DC based quartet consisting of Carrie Brownstein, Mary Timony, Rebecca Cole, and Janet Weiss. The members of WILD FLAG have played in numerous and notable bands, including but not limited to: Helium, The Minders, Croissant Cocktail, Feeble Knees, Quasi, Dogz, Sleater-Kinney, @@@, The Consortium, Asia, and Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks…read more
The Steam Pig began at Halloween, in Dublin, Ireland in 1994. According to Boz, the Bass player, they began as a unit of agents on special commission to weed out two bit ideology peddlers and mental incompetents at local punk gigs. The band specialized in fast and furious punk and hard core with “blood curdling vocals, fuzzy speeded up guitars and car crash drumming.”
Steam Pig CDs, including the few remaining copies of Deep Fried Obedience on the planet, are available at Rube Records
Hot Snakes consist of guitarist/vocalists John Reis and Rick Froberg, drummer Jason Kourkounis, and bassist Gar Wood. Reis is better known as Speedo, the vocalist for Rocket from the Crypt, but he’d also played in the acclaimed Drive Like Jehu with Froberg, who for his part had gone by the handles Rick Farr and Eric Froberg.
Meanwhile, drummer Kourkounis had been affiliated with the Delta 72, but he may or may not have changed his name to J Sinclair for the new group. Confused? That’s likely how Hot Snakes wanted it, as their twisting, convulsive mixture of punk revivalism, hardcore screed, and general weirdness is as royally screwed up as their genealogy.
In 2000, the band issued Automatic Midnight through Reis’ own Swami imprint; they returned to Swami two years later with Suicide Invoice. In August 2003, Hot Snakes’ website featured a typically blunt message. “We are not going to tour,” it read. “And we have no plans to do so.” And they didn’t. But Hot Snakes did rally for a new album, October 2004′s Audit in Progress, regarded by many as their finest work. Audit also switched out drummer Sinclair for Mario Rubalcaba (ex-Sea of Tombs).
A Snakes Peel Session appeared in early 2005, and the band began a spring/summer tour through Australia and Europe. Unfortunately, in July it was announced the tour would be Hot Snakes’ last, as they were breaking up. Thunder Down Under appeared posthumously in August 2006, consisting of tracks recorded live at the Australian Broadcast Company originally for broadcast on Triple J Radio. thanks
Buzzcocks are an English punk band formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer–songwriter–guitarist Pete Shelley.
Alongside The Clash, Sex Pistols and The Damned, Manchester’s Buzzcocks can be counted amongst the frontline of first-wave U.K. punk. Spurred on by the glue-sniffing power-pop of the Ramones and the rest of the scene forming around nascent New York club CBGB, the Buzzcocks made its onstage debut supporting the Pistols at a hometown gig in July 1976. Six months later, it became the first punk band to release a record (the Spiral Scratch EP) without the support of a major label, opening the floodgates for every artist who’s gone DIY since…Read More
Y69 from Burlington, VT – buzz-saw guitars, drinking songs, choruses of “Oi” and “old school punk rock” define a band that’s all about having a party on stage
Q And Not U, John Davis, Harris Klahr and Chris Richards, formed in the summer of 1998 (along with former member Matt Borlik) and began playing out in November of that year. The band’s first release, the “Hot and Informed” single, came out in April 2000 followed by the band’s debut full-length, “No Kill No Beep Beep,” released in October of 2000. After much touring in support of their album the band parted ways with Borlik and continued as a three piece, releasing the single, “On Play Patterns,” in April of 2002 and their second full-length, “Different Damage,” in the fall of that same year. Q And Not U toured extensively, in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Japan, with friends like Black Eyes, El Guapo (supersystem), Antelope, Erase Eratta, Ted Leo/ Pharmacists, and many more. The band released it’s final album, “Power”, in October 2004 and parted ways one year later…Read More
“Bands might be selling millions of records, but they aren’t selling out–there are just millions of people who want to hear what those bands are playing and feel the message. Twelve year olds are starting punk bands, punks are still organizing and promoting tours in true DIY style. And around the globe from Serbia to Israel, from Uruguay to Iceland, there’s punk rock.”
In the beginning I had known Emil since the days of downtown skateboarding and from the crazy hardcore shows at the Cameo Theatre during the late 80s. When those venues shut down, so did many of the bands that played there: Circle Jerks, Gang Green, Bad Brains, Government Issue, GBH, Black Flag, and straightedge, skinheads, and the whole crossover thing. That entire scene was gone when we entered the 90s. For us, however, it was the beginning of a new era…Read More
The Crumbs “Iggy Can’t Lose” LIVE at Sweat Records Miami, Fl 06/13/09
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