The Shitty Limits - Here Are The Limits

 listen to In Your Shoes by the shitty limits

my, my, my. I was absolutely smitten with this band, after seeing them live. around that time, I was wildly into The Dead Kennedys and early The Hives, because of that up-tempo garage/surf rock sound. this band -especially live- displays everything that I love about that certain indefinite guitar sound that I vaguely described, just now. the mangled and pourly articulated vocals sound like the singer is extremy drunk or trying to outshine David Yow in garbling his speech. acting like a fit Iggy Pop on stage adds to this all the more. so all in all a most brilliant hotchpotch of elements combined in one band.
Last fm tags as garage punk, punk, hardcore punk, garage rock, hardcore

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Former Thieves - The Language That We Speak

Trust Fund Kids by FormerThieves

As promised, here you have the sophomore record and debut full album by American band Former Thieves (Myspace). For this record they stripped down their sound and dispatched an (even) more refreshing style. An even more peculiar –leaning towards chaotic structured- approach to a variety of punk-influences. Casually juggling between punk-like strumming patterns in the vein of melodic/passionate hardcore bands and peculiar Post-Hardcoreish alternate picking, still somewhat in the vein of The Minor Times. These guys are touring with Gold Kids, somewhere late summer and I'm more than excited for those two bands joining on a european tour!

Last fm tags as hardcore, heavy, punk, blues, american hardcore

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Former Thieves - The Great And Alleged Great

 listen to Control and Illusion by Former Thieves, as a preview to this record

does anyone remember The Minor Times? they had more than revived my hope for the metalcore genre. because of that band, they were soaring high.

Former Thieves seem to be influenced by that very band, as they display similar sounding metallic grooves with a hint of structural chaos, topical lyrics and heartfelt elements in songs. they have a new album coming out, of which what I heard is another step forward for them. the guitars have a souther rock -like feel to their sound but play hardcore structures and the voice is so full of angst which makes for a really sweet mix of metal and post-hardcore with a progressive hardcore attitude.

Last fm tags as hardcore, heavy, punk, blues, american hardcore

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