Griever - Inferior

Black Vinyl Clouds by Griever

Ex-Lewd Acts band Griever (bandcamp) consists of hoarse yet emotional vocals supporting stirring dark hardcore mixed with melodic punk rock guitars. Altough it’s an entirely different band, their style would compliment that of bands like Burning Love, End Of A Year, Fucked Up or even Off With Their Heads and early The Bronx or Hot Water Music, in the same gritty punk rock class, with a very distinct style of their own. hardcore sensibilities in raw as hell punk rock music that both crush as hard as any ‘extreme’ band and move as passionately as any mellow emotional music.
Last fm tags as hardcore, sludge, punk rock,hardcore punk

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White Lung - It's The Evil

 listen to Like Dad by White Lung

Surprising stuff, by Canadian band White Lung (facebook). Basically this is Melt-Banana oriented stuff, but a lot closer to a punk rock sound and mentality. Guitars smothered in an alienating effect, yelping vocals and funky uptempo drum-patterns. Especially the latter make this as catchy as any punkrock band, while the vocals remind of Melt Banana’s screeching schouts and the guitars of Hot Snakes profound post-punk/punk rock sound. I am not stating any obvious influences (although I wouldn’t be surprised if I was spot on), only trying to label their overall sound to give you a first impression. If you’re not sure, you should know I just seriously want you to check this out. It’s briljant. All killer, no filler.
Last fm tags as punk, punk rock, garage rock, post-punk,female vocalists

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outside The Box Week: Dillinger Four - Civil War (4of4)

 listen to A Jingle for the Product by Dillinger Four

What is commonly defined as pop-punk seems to change a lot frequently.and it’s like Anti-Flag blindly follows its trends. What are current popular pop-punk bands, make me want to refer to Dillinger Four as political punk rock, like Anti-Flag at their prime. Only Dillinger Four (website) kept aiming for the same basic sound throughout their different releases. And with good reason. When I started to get in tot hem I would have held this high as the perfect standard for poppy punkrock music. the perfect combination between good ethics and good sound. Catchy as hell, but with the preferable punk mentality and feel to it. Thought-provoking lyrics with occasional ironic lols interweaved, but alwaus making its valid point clear.

Last fm tags as punk, punk rock, pop punk, melodic punk, minnesota 

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Outside The Box Week: Big KIds – Phone Home (2of4)

Soundtrack to the summer of 2k11! Big Kids  (website) play a smooth transition between gritty and upbeat (pop)punk rock, with raspy vocals, gritty yet cheerful guitars and rousing up-tempo drums. The vocalist favors the (Hot Water Music’s) Chuck Ragan piraty voice, that clash with lyrics which hover somewhere in between optimistic and nostalgic sentimentality, like in references to childhood or loves lost, and everything that comes with that time in your life. The guitar compositions can effortlesly tumble into melodic sounding, which feels odd as the guitar’s overall sound is quite raw –almost lo fi (cassette quality), but in a positive way!

Last fm tags as punk, punk rock, pop punk, rad, wicked 

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12XU - The SIngle Series 1+2+3+4

 listen to La Rouille by 12XU

12XU (as in the Minor Threat song) (Blog) is a french (pop) punkrock band –with a hint of emo- that features members of Daïtro. Entirely sung in french, the catchy melodies make up for the fact that I don’t understand one iota of the words.  With very distinct and crystal clear yet crunchy sounding guitars and straight-forward groovy percussions , this band’s foremost asset is the tight and earnest songwriting. How else could they have me singing along to words I don’t comprehend?

Note to self: look for translations of the lyrics

Last fm tags as emo, punk rock, punk, french, 90s emo

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