Punk

If Candy Hearts‘ The Best Ways To Disappear EP is not the most infectiously sugary-sweet pop-punk that is bound to give you a toothache, then I have no idea what is. The new EP is all things great pop-punk that harkens back to the innocence of the style f Record Label: Bridge Nine Style: Pop Punk

Iconic hardcore/punk band BAD BRAINS will release its new album, Into The Future, on November 20 via Megaforce. The CD features the classic lineup of H.R. , Darryl Jenifer, Dr. Know and Earl Hudson. American artist Shepard Fairey, a lifelong fan of BAD BR Record Label: Megaforce Style: Hardcore/Punk

Composer: George Stiles; Performer: Anthony Drewe; Performer: Claire Moore; Performer: Clive Rowe; Performer: George Stiles; Performer: Jenna Russell; Performer: Joanna Riding; Performer: Mark Anderson; Performer: David Shrubsole Label: First Night Records

THE MEN's self-released debut album originally limited to 500 copies now remastered and available on CD format for the first time. 8 songs of desperate, fuzzed out, riff laden punk/post-punk. This release really is an excellent mash of shoegaze and drony soundscapes with buried vocals beneath it all. Dreamy at times, with that Sonic Youth vibe CD, Album

Imagine Fugazi led by three women, 10 years earlier, or better yet, a female fronted Gang of Four." - CMJ. Never before released Bush Tetras studio album produced by Don Fleming. Recorded in 1998 "Happy" has spent 15 Years in major label purgatory and is now finally available. Funk/punk stars of the 80s New York club scene, the Bush Tetras sold over 30,000 of their debut 7" on the historic 99 Records in 1980. As important today as they were over 25 years ago, the Bush Tetras are a major force in today's 80s post-punk/new wave revival which includes ESG, Liquid Liquid, Gang Of Four. ROIR is thrilled to be able to finally release the Bush Tetras second studio album, which has never before been available. "Happy" had been mired in major label limbo since 1998, and is now finally free! Produced by Don Fleming (Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, Screaming Trees, Alice Cooper). FOR FANS OF: Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill, ESG & 99 Records NYC Style: Indie Rock

LP+MP3. >From their inception in 1988 until their hiatus in 2006, the Lungfish music band released 11 full-length albums and played concerts across the United States and in Europe. The band is renowned for intense creative productivity, releasing albums annually from the years 1992-2000. Originally released in 1997, "Indivisible" was the group's fifth album. Lungfish is now, as it often has been, quasi if not entirely defunct. However, since the release of the band's last album in 2005, "Feral Hymns", singer Daniel Higgs has embarked on a solo career, releasing albums on Northern Liberties, Thrill Jockey and Holy Mountain. In November, he will tour supporting Drag City artists, Om. Asa Osborne is currently recording and performing solo material under the name, Zomes. Style: Punk/Hardcore

Everything about Canadian power-duo Indian Handcrafts seems to defy possibilities: a two piece that's louder than a hundred bands, kicking out one of the year's most riff-rollicking albums that was recorded while the guitarist had a broken hand! They're two friendly, soft-spoken Canadian guys sounding like the Funkadelic Mothership crash landing on top of the Planet Caravan in Interstellar Overdrive. Indian Handcrafts' well honed, massive melodic heft seems to belie the simplicity of instrumentation between drummer/vocalist Brandyn James Aikins and guitarist/vocalist Daniel Brandon Allen. While their songs feature hints of heavy, technically skilled bands like Big Business, Hella and Tweakbird, there are also strong melodies and a vocal intensity inviting comparisons to artists ranging from Death From Above 1979 to Jack White. Top that all off with a rhythmic groove reminiscent of a hybrid of ZZ Top's Tres Hombres and Funkadelic's Standing On The Verge of Getting It On and it's clear that Indian Handcrafts are much, much more than the sum of their parts. Bursting out of Barrie, Ontario this pair of charming gentlemen immediately impacted the world with a self-released 8-song debut album in 2011. Cathy Pellow of Sargent House quickly took notice and signed the band on to management and the label. Shortly thereafter, Civil Disobedience For Losers was recorded in Los Angeles in March 2012 with engineer Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Big Business, Red Sparowes) and featuring special guest appearances by Melvins drummers Dale Crover and Coady Willis. Even with such superfriends assisting the proceedings, Indian Handcrafts prove their own exceptional strengths throughout the album. "The doctor said if you go and record that's your problem if it gets worse," Allen explains of recording with a broken hand. "It was a little painful some days, but because of being there in the surroundings it was easy to get around that. It healed fine." Overall, the duo says the recording came together very quickly under Kasai's guidance, but it's the bond between Aikins and Allen that gives Indian Handcrafts its lean, ferocious personality. "We first started this band when playing in another band that was pissing us off," Aikins says. "We were the two who always got along. I can't ever see us having anyone else in the band. Unless Toshi played tambourine." Album opener "Bruce Lee" kicks off (as it were) with a storming drop tuned guitar riff for which Soundgarden would've killed decades ago and surreptitiously eases into a breakdown worthy of Funkadelic's Cosmic Slop before leaping headlong into a blazing double-time group chant crescendo led by triple marching snare drums courtesy of Aikins and special guests Crover and Willis of the Melvins. "Red Action" pulls Grand Funk boogie into a violent confrontation with HEALTH level effect pummeling as Aikins and Allen trade vocal-chord shredding harmonized screams. "Terminal Horse" blazes along on a harmonized riff while the dual vocalists spit out lyrics as if their lives depended on it. Elsewhere, Indian Handcrafts go in for the kill on the explosive "Centauri Teenage Riot" pitting the fury of teen angst against a wall of guitars and the dual drum attack of Aikins and Crover. On "The Jerk" chiming, delay-soaked post-punk guitar counters a propulsive 60s R&B beat as the vocalists spin a tale of seemingly depraved sex: "said you wanted a lovah, so we went down south and tried to find you a lovah/ You wanted a lovah/ You got with the other." Throughout, infectious guitar riffs, intense vocal harmonies and pounding drums spin wildly out of control as they churn out headbanging rock so catchy it seems like it's been a forgotten art for countless decades. Vinyl, LP, Album

Record Label: Side One Dummy Style: Punk/Hardcore

Complete Control Radio is a nationally syndicated radio show hosted by SideOneDummy Records co-owner Joe Sib. Samiam Complete Control Session is the forth in this ongoing series. Recorded and engineered at Swing House in Hollywood, CA, Mixed by Chris Bee Record Label: Side One Dummy Style: Punk/Hardcore

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Includes digital download coupon with bonus track! Election fever is here and even more of a circus than usual, so who better to jump in and stir up trouble than Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine? Their new EP SHOCK-U-PY! is the perfect s Record Label: Alternative Tentacles Style: Punk/Hardcore