The Ducky Boys have always curiously held a lower profile than some of their Boston contemporaries. One listen to Three Chords and the Truth makes this fact all the more baffling. This is just an incredibly enjoyable slab of catchy, propulsive rock’n’roll. Like the title says the The Ducky Boys stick to conventional punk song […]
What Holds Back The Elephant may be one of the most intelligent, poetic and genuinely passionate records of the year, but that does that make it a fun listen?
Submission Hold defies categorization. I’ve read every clumsy attempt from “agit-punk” to “avant-folk” and “progressive-crust” even “post-genre” and I can’t say one is more correct than any […]
For a band of Oregonians transplanted in NYC, Stockyard Stoics sound right at home with Catastrophe, a fierce mix of NYC hardcore, Clash-inspired reggae rhythms and street level politics. The Stoics wisely keep their social commentary focused on life in the city, taking a bleakly dystopian view but a believable one. Money worries. The police […]
Call it Maritime charm if you will, but there’s definitely something earnest and remarkably amiable about The New Breed that I’ve never quite been able to peg. The Halifax five-piece returns with Off The Beaten Path, a thirteen-track package showing off real growth in songwriting from last year’s Port City Rebels, but despite covering very […]
It always gives me pangs of doubt when I realize I’m not reviewing a hardcore record as much as a full on work of punishing metal. If Liberty Isn’t Given, It Should Be Taken is one such album, and I fear my narrow punk-perspective criticisms won’t do the band any justice. I’m likely wrong, […]
It’s election day in the United States. It’s also Dia De Los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. I’m not sure if that’s a sign of anything…
It’s particularly frustrating being a Canadian and watching this election. Running Punknews in the recent months has increasingly been an exercise in posting political news from organizations like Rock […]
