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When THE Release OF Various Junk Shop Glam Compilations Created AN Ever Growing Demand FOR Those Great Lost Nuggets OF THE Glitter ERA IT Didn´t Come AS A BIG Surprise That IN THE Wake NEO Glam Bands Started TO Rise. Giuda Paved THE WAY, FAZ Waltz Come TO Mind BUT Then THE WAS Little More, WAS There? BUT Wait! Since THE Days OF Rodney Bingenheimers English Disco LOS Angeles HAS Always Been THE Epicentre OF Glam IN America. While Glam NEver Made IT BIG IN THE U.S., IT Nonetheless NEver Completely Disappeared. Glam Aficionados Kept ON Deejaying Their OWN Shows TO A Small Circle OF Committed Supporters. Enter Noah Wallace. TO SAY Noah Knows A BIT About Junk Shop Glam Would BE THE Understate-ment OF THE Year! Ever Since HE DiscoVERED THE Milk´n´cookies Album HE NOT Only Build UP THE Most Comprehensive Collection OF Junk Shop Glam Obscurities, HE Also HAS THE Deepest Understanding OF ALL Facets OF THE Genre, HE Lives IT, HE Breezes IT! SO Putting Together HIS OWN Band IN 2010 WAS A Logical Step. HE Named IT: Hammered Satin. IN 2012 Hammered Satin ReleaseD A Very Limited Tape Which Brought Them TO THE Attention OF Burger Records, AND 2014 Gave Birth TO Their Great First Album GlamORAMA. Oddly Enough THE Album – Which IS EN PAR With THE Very Best NEO Glam YOU CAN Think OF! – Failed TO Make AN Impact IN Europe. IT WAS NOT Distributed Here AND TO This Very DAY A Copy OF THE Original IS NOT Easy TO Locate. TOO Great TO BE Ignored I Came TO THE Decision That Europe Needed This Record! SO When Noah Agreed I Started TO Work ON A Reissue AND Finally… Here IT IS!!! Hammered Satin ARE Still Going Strong AND Have Added Ex-germs Drummer DON Bolles TO THE Line UP!

Massachusetts hardcore band Defeater have announced their new self-titled album. Defeater will be released May 10 on Epitaph. This is Defeater's fifth full-length release and their first in 4 years. The first new single, "Mothers' Sons" features blistering guitars that take the song into something chaotic and beautiful. Defeater was produced with Will Yip (Quicksand, La Dispute, Blacklisted, Ms. Lauryn Hill) whose enthusiasm and talent pushed the songs to their fullest potential. Defeater showcases the band at their most devastating and sonically arresting to date. It is as pummeling as it is atmospheric. Yet it's been a long journey to where the band is now. Years of touring took their toll on the friends that make up the current lineup of Derek Archambault (vocals), Jake Woodruff (guitar), Adam Crowe (guitar), Mike Poulin (bass) and Joe Longobardi (drums). Health, substance abuse issues, and ejecting a longtime member had made a touring hiatus necessary. After a few months at home, working and decompressing, the fire to write a new record caught everyone in a major way. The result of time off and the band's renewed energy, Defeater has created their most organic batch of songs yet. And in Defeater fashion, the instrumentation is complimented by a narrative approach. Archambault explores his own "Glass family" (an homage to the J.D. Salinger characters) from new perspectives.

Back when they started out as a side project of Melbourne's goth punk band—MASSES, UBIK described themselves as "Catchy brat-beat with a little sprinkling of anarcho goodness". That still rings true but with a slight lineup change and a couple years of practicing/gigging, they've gotten 100x tighter and traded most of the goodness for a bit more snarl. The catchiness remains strong a deliberate. This band rules, we can't wait for you to hear their best work.

"Too much so-called psych-punk or acid-punk or whatever boils down sonically to some efx added to a familiar punk/rock format. I’m sorry, but that doesn’t qualify to my ears. On the other hand, this SLUMP band from Richmond, Virginia, ranks high. Very high. (And so am I.) They’ve been around for about four years now, with the current lineup of WILL FENNESSEY (bass), TONY NOWOTARSKI (Moog/guitar), NICK YETKA (drums), and SUSPICIOUS SONNY (vocals/guitar). They self-released a single in 2016 that kinda reminds me of the NYC HC band Kaleidoscope, except there are prominent electronics. They also released an excellent split EP (with True Body) that found them expanding the songs into longer chunks that allow for more freedom to move.


And that brings us to their debut LP. Slump has retained the hardcore and sludge, but it would be hard to convince some people that this is punk-rock at all. (It is! And it isn’t!) Let’s mention Hawkwind. The UK space-rock group has become a template for riff-heavy acid-eaters over the past 40 years, and Slump is certainly in that line. It all opens with a riff that resembles the MC5’s “Black to Comm” and quickly descends/ascends into the dirty sky above beneath inside outside us all. Don’t expect an easy ride—this is gonna be a bumpy but very worthwhile trip. “No Utopia”? There’s a sane slogan for modern America. Whatever explicit message (?) may lie here is buried in volume and psychedelic mud. The hardcore urge beats the messenger to death again. I think that’s a good thing myself. Evolve, baby—evolve! Things ROCK on “(Do the) Sonic Sprawl”—conjures up visions of Philip K. Dick and 1980s Sonic Youth and some sorta (r)evolution (no Utopia!). “Throbbing Reverberation” is the shortest track and another rockin’ jam. The title gives a strong clue. Forward-thinking metal fans should dig this. Imagine Voivod with a LOT of noise in the mix.

With two much loved 7”’s, as well as countless riotous live shows already to their name, it was only a matter of time before Brighton punks, Gender Roles unleashed their debut album on the world, and now PRANG is finally here.

Capturing the frenetic energy of their live shows, the new record sees their grunge/punk sound evolving into something a little more complex. The new songs blend in a lyrical honesty and nuance but retain the angst and charm of their earlier material, to make it sound unmistakably Gender Roles and their most complete work to date.

Descendents are back as powerful as ever!