Hardcore punks Peroxide are out with their debut full-length album. The band delivers high-speed rippers that encompass everything from finding Adderall, having sweaty dreams, and stealing drugs from Brookfield. The final track, however, is a gentle and graceful organ track contributed by Lowell E. Schultz. Joey Turbo’s vigorous vocals combined with the tight riffage and ferocious drumming all add up
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Punk rockers Fox Face have a new video out for Halloween accompanying a song from their last record “End of Man.” Featuring the band members rocking out among glowing visual effects, the video takes us down eerie nighttime roads that presumably lead up to the titular location; the song is about such a farm that served as a pet burial
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Punk rockers Avenues have a new single and video out today. It’s a spooky one; directed by Eric Arsnow and shot in black-and-white, the video finds the band rocking out while zombies and ghosts approaching from outside. The song itself is about the world chewing you up and spitting you out; you had no chance against it. Stay tuned for
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The Bbys incorporate the roots of punk into their new record.
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Pop punks Ceteri have a new video out from last year’s album “Tough Shit.” It’s shot by Kyle Johnson and features the band doing an outdoor show, with illustrations from Russ Nadasdy weaved in. The song’s about living one miserable day after another, and you just can’t seem to break the pattern. Ceteri tackle the vicious cycle of just another
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Pop punks Honey Creek have a new single out today. It’s a little jam about touring around as a band in the Midwest, spending your whole summer sleeping on strangers’ floors and waking up to pissed-off texts from your girlfriend. It’s the life you chose yet you’re always left wanting more. The song has subliminal humor to it while remaining
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Pop punk band Bad Year’s latest single is about “jumping ship” in a relationship. Things have been rocky lately and the future is looking bleak, so you’re debating whether or not to abandon it. The song makes effective use of the sinking-boat metaphor, giving it all you got while you’re still here, but ultimately knowing the fate that lies ahead.
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We talk to Marc and Shawn from the band after their set at the festival.
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Reality Check brush off ignorance in a track from the Milwaukee Style compilation.
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Punk rockers Aces’ second single is about standing your ground and overcoming your opponent in a fight. Let it be known that they’re undefeatable because they fight smart. Clearly inspired by the Bucks recently winning the championship, Aces throw some punches with a hard hitter of a rock jam.
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M545 keep their introductory phase strong with a fast new single.
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Sludge-punk-doom band Snailtooth have a new record out, back from a fifteen-year hiatus. Beer-soaked and belligerent, these songs feature tortured howls and crushing riffage. We feel like creatures emerging from the decaying soils, out in the open for danger to find us. It’s always exciting when an old band makes a return, and those around for the Wisconsin DIY scene
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Enervate provide a shot of adrenaline with their new EP.
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Metalcore band American Bandit most recent single dropped about a month ago. It’s a midtempo hitter about your thoughts blinding you from seeing clear, trapping you in self-doubt and self-hatred. The only way you know how to cope is to drown your sorrows in alcohol. American Bandit’s upcoming EP is titled “Year of the Rat” – we’ll keep you posted
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Punk rockers M545 have a new single out this week. It’s a high-jumping tune about not having the words to tell someone how much they mean to you. You want them to stick around and can’t help but beg. M545’s rocking builds up from the tension you feel from the person, like you’re about to explode. This is their third
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Pop punk band Honey Creek have a new single out today. This one’s about the boringness of day to day life, and remaining uninterested in things others are interested in. Yet, you’re too exhausted to make any significant changes. Honey Creek tackle the constant tug-of-war between staying in and out of your comfort zone. We hope to hear more from
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“Figi” by Playboi Beanz is a song showing people you can accomplish anything with hard work. He considers being an artist a rebirth from what he previously was and he tried to convey the empowerment of doing what you want and not letting anybody tell you otherwise in his new song. He uses his music to spread his message; he
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Hardcore punks Ballstomper have their debut full-length album out this week. The band takes no shit and ram right into us with jams about loneliness, bitterness, the futility of clout, getting gaslit by society, defying gender norms, and Patrick Swayze among other things. Ballstomper blow off a ton of steam here over sixteen tracks, hurling the violent impositions back in
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Punk rockers Aces are a new band on the scene to watch, having just released their debut single. It’s a jam about running from your past and coming at life from a wildly different angle than everyone else. They’re starting fires and wreaking havoc so don’t get in their way. Stay tuned for what Aces have in store coming up.
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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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Ben Slowey talks to the garage punk band.
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Ben Slowey talks to the drummer of punk band Bad Year.
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The First Rule and MC Lars collaborate to talk about pandemic boredom.
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Punk trio Murder Generation have their sophomore album out. The band is ready to go to war over eleven crisp yet vitriolic songs, channeling fury about societal plagues and the oppressive status quo. As the world gets engulfed with greed and tyranny, Murder Generation rages with conviction about how there’s no one to blame for this bullshit other than ourselves.
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Garage punks M545’s latest single clocks in at just over two minutes, which is more than enough time to express anger at all the lies you’ve been told. No one knows what to believe anymore because you can only believe what you’re exposed to. It’s a song that hits home in such a divided social climate we live in, and
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