WHO: SEXFACES WHAT: Bad Vibes OST WHY: Sometimes it takes a few listens for an album to hit you. A few spins of Bad Vibes OST, and it’s clear that there’s something special about this band, but keep at it and the energy, grit, hooks, and peculiarities of the songs become more evident. This is garage dirty punk rock and roll borrowing heavily from the Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, and Cramps. An underdog is now probably contender for this year’s...
A deeper look at the grooves pressed into the You’re Class, I’m Trash LP by The Monsters. Arguably the greatest compliment one can pay to a punk record is not to call it “good” or “great” or anything like that (because such terms can be – and have been – dismissed as a matter of opinion or as a matter of perception), but to simply exclaim, “You’ve gotta hear this” to as many potentially receptive ears as possible. Word tends...