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To celebrate the upcoming DVD release of the 'Blokes You Can Trust' film, reluctant local punk legends COSMIC PSYCHOS have announced a final Melbourne headline show for 2013. It goes down at The Espy Gershwin room on Friday November 1st.
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How time flies! Melbourne based independent label Poison City Records is turning ten later this year! To celebrate the milestone they've just announced two massive shows, bringing together the best of the label's old and new breed.
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Seminal Australian punk band BODYJAR released first album since 2005, “Role Model”, out now via UNFD. The band have released their second video for the track "Hope Was Leaving" that features guest vocals from Joey Cape of Lagwagon fame.
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Poison City is delighted to welcome aboard, Byron Bay/ Melbourne outfit Postblue. Since forming in the summer of 2012 Postblue have quickly established themselves as a prolific and energetic touring act with a distinct sound that lurches between 90's alternative rock, shoegaze and scuzzy punk anthems.
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Another band we overlooked recently is BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY. Featuring a line up of Greg Bennick, Alexei Rodriguez, and EJ Bastien of TRIAL and CATHARSIS; Sean Lande of STRAIN and BY A THREAD; and Happy Kreter of GOB, the band recently released a 6 track EP through Refuse Records.
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Hailing from Sweden, meloic punk rockers Atlas Losing Grip topped our punk releases poll in 2011 for their last album "State Of Unrest". The band is set to release the follow up album real soon and have shared a series of studio videos and the first real listen to a new song called "Cynosure".
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Better late than never they say. We totally overlooked the news that Jon Bunch formerly of Sense Field, Reason To Believe and more recently Further Seems Forever has teamed up with Brad Lehman of Maylene and the Sons of Disaster and Craig Anderson from Ignite to form War Generation.
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Maggot Fest is back! Charging into its fourth year celebrating music of the rowdy and raucous persuasion Maggot Fest showcases the best in Australian punk, hardcore, garage and noise. This year the line up extends to four Melbourne venues over four days and includes performances from over 30 acts including Boomgates, Straightjacket Nation and a special ‘Maggot Mass’ at Northcote Social Club on Melbourne Cup Day.
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I Exist has premiered a brand new track "Lightning Curse" taken from their forthcoming album "From Darkness". The album, their third full length is set to be released on November 29 through Resist Records. Preorders are now live.
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Social Distortion have released a cover of a classic Creedence Clearwater Revival tune "Up Around The Bend". The song was recorded for the soundtrack to the upcoming animated film Free Birds, which will star Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson.