Bremen Cafe hosted an exciting evening of rock and roll Wednesday featuring Milwaukee acts Gorilla Knifefight, Chinese Telephones and Iron Pizza alongside San Diego-based Decent Criminal. Chinese Telephones consists of vocalist/guitarist Justin Telephone, guitarist Daniel James, bassist/backing vocalist Andy Junk and drummer Logan Stang. Formed in 2004, the band’s kinetic style encompasses pop punk and power pop. “Justin started the
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Bremen Cafe was powered by rock and roll Friday night as solo punk act Gorilla Knifefight, alternative rockers Secondhand Souls and grunge-stoner rockers Toadskin took the stage.
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Duck Earnhardt closes 2022 with another Gorilla Knifefight tape. Hardcore punk is as fast and furious as ever here, balancing personal angst with societal angst through igniting riffs and a pounding drum machine. Earnhardt battles greedy capitalists and the Internet while also holding on tight for love and for his friends, ultimately prevailing. Gorilla Knifefight emerges victorious with “THIS KNIFE
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Matt Glassel’s hardcore punk project Gorilla Knifefight has a new EP out. It’s four songs, one of which “Fear Factor” we heard this summer released as a cassingle. Glassel is ready to kick ass and fight as he rocks about the bullshit that is the United States government. The dude’s got love in his heart and spreads it through anarchy
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Duck Earnhardt, also known as Matt Glassel, released a two-track cassette this month dripping with ransom note, stenciled DIY aesthetic and amp-busting riffs pulled from the American hardcore wave of the early ‘80’s. A single maxed-out guitar blares an air raid siren noise over a simple drum machine track while Glassel belts out lyrics about awaking something primal in yourself.
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Bremen Cafe hosted a spectacular night of live music Thursday night featuring solo acts Economy Superstar and Gorilla Knifefight as well as the band Sun Silo. Economy Superstar is the synthpop-spoken word project of TW Hansen. He’s known for selling his bumper stickers at shows and balances his interludes with comedy and passionate realness. He plays the tracks from his
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Solo hardcore punk project Gorilla Knifefight released a new ripper this week. Matt Glassel rages about the fear that the system oppresses us with, whether it’s via guns and badges or endless lies. But we have our voices and love is worth fighting for, so never give up. It’ll be on an upcoming split tape and proceeds from the track
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Gorilla Knifefight is a one-person wrecking crew on their new tape.
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Solo hardcore punk project Gorilla Knifefight is back with a new track. Matt Glassel channels anti-war cries in rapid succession, expressing distaste for our warmongering government and how innocent people suffer at the hands of the state. But there’s no power like the power of the people, and Glassel assures that the people will rise up and win. Gorilla Knifefight
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Hardcore punk solo project Gorilla Knifefight has an album out on Loopy Scoop Tapes – his second of the year. It’s an ass-kicker with plenty of feedback and fierce riffage where each cut comes at you like a fiery blast. Matt Glassel sings about rock n’ roll being alive and well, sweating profusely, looking for an off switch on his
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A smorgasbord of talented acts took the stage at Cactus Club on Sunday night. Milwaukee solo project Gorilla Knifefight kicked things off followed by New York-by-way-of-Milwaukee artist X Harlow, Chicago-based EBM project Club Music, and Cincinnati post-punk band The Serfs. Gorilla Knifefight is the hardcore punk project of Matt Glassel, where he sings with backing tracks. Glassel is known to
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Solo punk project Gorilla Knifefight (Matt Glassel) has a music video out to their song “Mark My Skin.” It’s less than a minute long and makes its point loud and clear; the black-and-white video features Glassel receiving a stick and poke tattoo from good friend and bandmate Eliot Hess. The lyrics are displayed in Glassel’s distinct font as well (if
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Gorilla Knifefight is a solo punk project of Matt Glassel, who is known as the guitarist of Peroxide and as a boon to the Riverwest DIY scene through running the space Tsunami MKE (formerly Nausicaa). His new record is a lash-out about basic human rights being denied, Nazis being allowed space, life being too short to not be happy, and
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