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Ubik (photo by Adam Ritchie)

Band name:
UBIK

Date & location formed:
Mid 2016, Melbourne, Australia.

Reason for forming:
Too much goth times, needed more punk times. The 3 gals of Ubik all play together in Masses but different instruments, this was our little dorky side project. It was nice to switch it up and play instruments we weren’t very comfortable/proficient with to make simple and fun punk songs.

What are your lyrics about?
A common theme of mundanities and paranoia of modern Australian life. Apart from the one song about slugs coming out of the plughole and eating people. Actually wait yes, still Australian life.

How would you describe your sound?
Catchy brat-beat with a little sprinkling of anarcho goodness.

What’s in the future for this band?
Trying to get it together and play some godamn shows. Also an EP sometime next year on Danger Records in France & Lost in Fog Records in Australia.

Links and contact info:

ubikpunk.bandcamp.com

Yinz think were a bunch of angry men but yinz didn’t know that we’re actually a bunch of animated naked faceless men

Band name:
MACHINE GUN

Date & location formed:
Philadelphia.

Reason for forming:
Yinz think your such good punks but yinz only asked us cause we played in DC.

What are your lyrics about?
Shout out to Philly Slam Crew, Blackout, Blood Pressure, POLLEN, S-21, Kombat, Buddy Kane, Matt Ubansk, Z, Cousin Dan, Andrew Jacobsmayer, Xtina, Ms. Amy, Jim Kirn and Tradition, Ms. Jess, Second Umpire, Chuck,
Negative Approach, Slayer (for Max),
Out Cold, and Wretched.

How would you describe your sound?
We listen to HC, kid.

What’s in the future for this band?
Don’t contact us we are antisocial psychochots.

Machine Gun (photo by Marie Lin)

Links and contact info:
machinegungungun.bandcamp.com

Band name:

POLICY OF TRUTH

Date & location formed:
2016, Vancouver.

Reason for forming:
We wanted to.

What are your lyrics about?
Self loathing.

How would you describe your sound?
Primitive 🐒💩

What’s in the future for this band?
Another tape and some shows, more self loathing.

Links and contact info:
policyoftruth.bandcamp.com

Band name:
COLOR TV

Date & location formed:
2015, Twin Cities

Reason for forming:
We all love DIY punk rock so it made sense.

What are your lyrics about?
That groggy disconnected feeling that is a byproduct of modern life. How do we retain our humanity when we’re over-medicated and out of touch with each other?

How would you describe your sound?
Classic punk rock. Influenced by all
the different styles ​​from​​ around the world.

What’s in the future for this band?
Another 7″ coming out on Neck Chop Records followed by an LP on Deranged Records. Some traveling and playing as much as our schedules allow.

Links and contact info:

colorteevee.bandcamp.com

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Band name:
SEX SCENES

Date & location formed:
Sept. 2016 in Milwaukee, WI

Reason for forming:
“We wanted to actualize a new creative outlet in each of our lives. We feel we have the ability to bring something unique with high energy.”
– Zach

What are your lyrics about?
“The lyrics are very personal. The writing for this group is very therapeutic. It’s almost an exercise. Then mostly drugs, booze and how cool I am”
– Zach

How would you describe your sound?
A mixture of Hardcore and Rock’n Roll with elements of Noise.

What’s in the future for this band?
We are preparing to record a full length. Hopefully out in late January or early February.

Sex Scenes (photo by PJ Moody)

Links and contact info:
sexscenes.bandcamp.com
facebook.com/sekscenes

Band name:
DIRTY & HIS FISTS

sup I’m DIRTY MIKE and I’ve got 4 fists – SLAMMY PACQUAIO, SEX LIMB, SAMMY SOUTH PAW, and fucking KNUCKLESSS. We gonna beat on your legs and your front end graphic design job and your MOM or DAD or BOTH so they cant pay your phone bill anymore or fix your car when it makes weird noises.

Dirty & His Fists (photo by Kris Kirk)

Reason for forming:
Theres no water left in LOS ANGELES cause we took it all HAHA so eat shit. You can buy a bottle off of us if you buy a tape that you cant play cause you don’t have a tape deck even though you have like 10 burger tapes and update discogs pressing info like you review on yelp like its YOUR JOB but its not your job you’re just a fucking loser.

What’s in the future for this band?
2016 was the year of the FIST and you know you gotta eat more adderall and fucking upgrade your MACBOOK PRO to 64 mb of DODGE RAM if you don’t wanna get hit by this predator drone. We are the Wachoskis of MUSIC and will keep you LOCKED IN THE MATRIX

Links and contact info:
dirtyandhisfists.bandcamp.com/releases

Band name:
PROTRUDERS

Date & location formed:
22016 was when we formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canaduh in 201666.

Reason for forming:
We had another band but moved away and 2 of us wanted to start a new band. wanted to start playing musick; sick of the “old songs”, found a couple of bass players/spirit guides for alternation/interlocution. oozed into a four piece? i guess the reason we play is because we want to communicate and engage with “culture”, but its hard to say what the message is. its easy to say that we have the drive and vision that makes us unique, but maybe more truthful to say that we have the time and support to follow through.

What are your lyrics about?
they’re half abstract half narrative half fiction reflections of negativity. Anxiety. obscurity/oblivion. Its poetry learned through listening to music and hearing the wrong lyrics. paranoia. alienation. the voice of irrelevance.

How would you describe your sound?
we currently have drums, bass and guitar (s) and 2 vocals. its rhythm oriented rudimentary sub-melodic clatter/rockn’roll. obscurity/oblivion. best if you just listen for yourself.

What’s in the future for this band?
No big plans. obscurity/oblivion, or world domination. we just did an improv/one off thing that was a cool challenge. we have some new songs and video stuff on the go and we go to east coast/maritimes in January to play shows with all the talent out there.

Links and contact info:

416 320 2989

Logo by Nicky Rat

Band name:
SCORE

Date & location formed:
Luke’s flat, Xmas Day 2016.

Reason for forming:
Alcohol fueled excitement.

What are your lyrics about?
Living with sickness of the mind and body and how that intersects with expectations, privacy, the health service, the public arena, companions, all under the veil of unwanted capitalism.

How would you describe your sound?
Someone called us No Wave/Anarcho-Noise and it kinda stuck. Bratpunk/Primitive Hardcore.

What’s in the future for this band?
Just finished a tour with Scrap Brain and plan to do more touring next year. Gonna make a record. Ruined amps. DS-1s. More alcohol fuelled excitement.

Score (photo by Ben Hills)

Links and contact info:

scorepunx.bandcamp.com

Band name:
VÄGRA

Date & location formed:
March 2016 in Gainesville Florida.

Reason for forming:
We like playing music together; Vägra is what happens when we play together.

What are your lyrics about?
Ending police brutality, dystopian post-apocalyptic existence, environmental degradation, the disorientation with living in a war-obsessed society, the cynicism that develops from that, how nations and individuals are going to war over who they “are”, and then basic stuff like birth and death and feeling fucked up over everything else in between.

How would you describe your sound?
Hardcore punk, d-beat, “raw”, if it tickles your fancy.

What’s in the future for this band?
A 4-track EP on brain solvent propaganda, a week-long tour of the eastern seaboard, a one-sided LP of our demo tape on Gainesville’s Bloody Master Records, collaborating with our city’s few DIY venues to raise support for musicians and artists and engender resistance against senseless violence and hateful discrimination in our scene and worldwide.

Links and contact info:

vagra.bandcamp.com

Band name:

MARICÓN

Date & location formed:
May/June 2016, Moreno Valley California.

Reason for forming:
For all of lives growing up our families have called us Maricòn for being different than them in our own way. This is our positive outlet, our response to that. This is for every one who felt they can’t be who they are in society. Be yourself. We’re not in this alone.

What are your lyrics about?
Real Life situations.

How would you describe your sound?
Limp Wrist meets Youth of Today.

What’s in the future for this band?
And EP and maybe an LP in 2017/2018, and playing festivals confirmed in LA, Seattle, Philadelphia, Texas, and hopefully Olympia 2017. We’re doing a west coast tour in August 2017.

Links and contact info:

maricon.bandcamp.com

Band name:
ABJECTION

Date & location formed:
Abjection formed February 2016 in Los Angeles, CA.

Reason for forming:
Abe & I (Steph) started the band in Feb 2016 after I approached him with the idea of an unadulterated punk band fronted by a strong woman. He liked the idea and he was in. In finding the right frontwoman, we wanted someone who could convey aggressive vocals, someone who shared our values, and above all, someone who was passionate about punk. Fia fit all of that for us.

What are your lyrics about?
Our lyrics deal a lot with personal dilemmas and sentiments that are universal: betrayal, alienation, disappointment, anger, heartache, regret, and above all, the ability to move forward despite these obstacles.

How would you describe your sound?
Aggressive female-fronted punk. No additional descriptions needed.

What’s in the future for this band?
We just recorded & released our demo Dec 2016, so we’re just getting started! We plan to play as many shows as possible in 2017 and have a great time doing it!

Links and contact info:

abjectionpunk.bandcamp.com

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Band name:
P.E.A.R.L.

Date & location formed:
2016 in Moreno Valley, California.

Reason for forming:
I was just really bored and wanted to start a project that was a love letter to early 80s hardcore.

What are your lyrics about?
Wanting to kill rapists, my mental health issues, hating people who only want to be my friend because I’m trans.

How would you describe your sound?
A dog barking through static.

What’s in the future for this band?
Almost finished recording a promo that should be out early January 2017. After that who knows.

P.E.A.R.L. ( photo by Wayne Ballard! )

Links and contact info:
pearlontheattack.bandcamp.com

Band name:
HÄRDA UT

Date & location formed:
First band meeting June 9th 2015, Gothenburg Sweden.

Reason for forming:
Kim and Ismael had been practicing drum and bass together hoping that one day find two more members to do loud and noisy hardcore together with. Meanwhile, Kristina and Lauri had been talking about starting a band. They knew Ismael from playing guitar in another band and so Kristina called him one day, when he was sitting on the toilet, and the rest is history.

HÄRDA UT (photo by Marita Jansson)

What are your lyrics about?
Shitty situations in everyday life.

How would you describe your sound?
Hardcore made by teenage orc-punx in Mordor.

What’s in the future for this band?
Release an LP on ADAGIO830 in the beginning of 2017. Write some new songs and do some touring.

Links and contact info:

hardaut.bandcamp.com

Band name:

SCRAP BRAIN

Date & location formed:
Spring 2016, London, UK.

Reason for forming:
We got together for First Timers, a weekend of gigs where every band plays their first show. It’s a project designed to encourage musical participation from people who otherwise might not feel able to, particularly people who are not straight white men. (Applications for 2017 have just opened, you should form a band: application form and more information at https://www.facebook.com/groups/201740340257062/)

What are your lyrics about?
Navigating millenial life as a mentally ill queer wreckhead.

How would you describe your sound?
Barely-controlled weirdo punk/nowave cacophony. Unhappy hardcore.

Scrap Brain ( photo by Joseph Oremus)

What’s in the future for this band?
Doing a weekender with Score in December. Want to do some more tours after that. Hopefully a record ASAP. International Scrap Brain Day April 13th 2017.

Links and contact info:
scrapbrainhc.bandcamp.com

Band name:

PEDESTRIAN

Date & location formed:
Winter 2015, Toronto.

Reason for forming:
We’ve all been active members of the Toronto/GTA punk scene for years, but for most of us this is our first band. It’s another excuse to participate.

What are your lyrics about?
Anxieties about sleep and dreaming, loss of memory, feeling low, shame.

How would you describe your sound?
Classic USHC influence not unlike the Toronto canon but with slight inclinations toward post punk/d-beat.

What’s in the future for this band?
Lots of writing, practicing, and figuring things out, new tape in beginning of new year, hopefully touring.

Pedestrian (photo by Sebastian Rodriguez Besa )

Links and contact info:
pedestrian-toronto.bandcamp.com
shirts at strangematerial.storenvy.com

Band name:
NERVE QUAKES

Date & location formed:
Formed sometime around the start of 2014 in Perth, Western Australia.

Reason for forming:
Oli and Caleb wanted to jam some punk type stuff that sounded like a drum machine and lots of synth… somewhere between Gary Numan and the Screamers. Then Caitie joined on vocals, Charlie on bass and Heather on keys. Caleb ended up moving to guitar. Our sound seemed to just morph into what it is now.

What are your lyrics about?
Our lyrics are about murder, the paranormal, anxiety and exploitation.

How would you describe your sound?
We sound like punks who accidentally found ourselves in a goth band!

What’s in the future for this band?
We’ve got an LP coming out in the next few months so hopefully we’ll tour a bit once that is out. Aiming to get a 7” recorded by the end of 2016.

Nerve Quakes (photo by Kyle Biggins)

Links and contact info:
nervequakes.bandcamp.com
imminentdestruction.bandcamp.com
televisedsuicide.bandcamp.com
televisedsuicide.bigcartel.com
imminentdestruction.bigcartel.com

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Band name:
VOG

Date & location formed:
February 14, 2016 ~ HAPPY VOGGINTIMES DAY ~ in dreary Portland, Oregon.

Reason for forming:
Well after the brutal divorce and losing the kids to the international phenomenon known as Pokemon Go, I had no idea who I was anymore. My identity as a “Family Guy” had been ripped apart and no amount of import car buying or leaving nasty comments on lady strangers’ Instagram accounts was going to get me through this putrid wasteland called life. I finally called up the ole gang from the Hot Topic stockroom, and we all agreed that the best thing for 4 sexy, rock ‘n rollin’, middle-aged studs to do was to either try improv comedy or get the band back together.

What are your lyrics about?
The Mall. Confronting The Man. Avoiding Taxes – not as a rich person, but as a very poor and lowly mall rodent. Many of our songs are also just shout outs to all the cool dogs and innocent babies out there.

How would you describe your sound?
Make Amps Crate Again.

Fog (photo by Erika Elizabeth)

What’s in the future for this band?
We’re working on some more one-minute hits, and we’re planning on touring East + West Coast in 2017. No word yet on an interior continent tour, though we’re pretty fond of the Mall of America. And just to let all you silly “punx” know: We’re tired of “all ages” shows filled with BORING ADULTS and APATHETIC TEENS. We will not rest until those sweet, innocent babies get their rightful place at the show. BABIES TO THE FRONT! P.S. If you work at the Hot Topic in the Mall of America, please help us get a show there. Thanks.

Links and contact info:

vogpdx.bandcamp.com

Band name:
JUICE BOX

Date & location formed:
Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Sometime in 2015? Maybe February.

Reason for forming:
Fuck the boys club! As a reason for the four of us to hang out and drink champagne every week. Some of us had never been in a band before and thought it was about time.

What are your lyrics about?
They are read off an iPad at live shows. Kayla reads Amazon reviews for sex swings, gross texts from straight white boys on Tinder (she has a lovely partner named Chris who is in a great band called Melted Mirror, so they are not from experience.) They are read from this website called straightwhiteboystexting.org which is definitely NSFW, and is updated often with horrifying messages. So the song kind of changes every time, but we think the recorded version turned out really great. And then there’s a song that educates us on how a pet rat can help you through depression.

How would you describe your sound?
A little post-punky, but also poppy. Someone called us “twee” recently which is confusing but fun.

What’s in the future for this band?
Playing shows around Calgary and supporting the local music community. Gwen, one of our members, is one of the founders of a cool new all ages venue at the local bike co-op, The Good Life Community Bike Shop. It’s something that Calgary needs so badly. They just had their first show and it was awesome — we hope to be involved with and support more stuff like that.

Juice Box (photo by Jennifer Crighton)

Links and contact info:

juiceboxyyc.bandcamp.com

Band name:

INGROWN

Date & location formed:
We started jamming this band early January/February 2015 and played our first show later that month, in Boise, Idaho.

Reason for forming:
Since the summer of 2010 when we started playing punk, we’ve always been influenced by early 80s hardcore and that was it. We did bands like 1d, Grocery List, Flanders Ned, & our main inspiration was always my dad’s band State of Confusion, and Negative Approach. Strictly real style hardcore and not much else. Things went weird with lots of our friends and we weren’t really doing much music at the time. Ingrown started as a last minute “ah fuck let’s just form a new band and play that show next month” kinda idea, then we just stopped doing what we always did and wrote different stuff.

What are your lyrics about?
Mostly about hating bullies and racist bastards. Boise’s scene is dramatic as hell and lots of people are shit talkers so I just write about how I don’t like anything about them and want to hurt em really badly.

Ingrown (photo by Angela Owens)

How would you describe your sound?
We started writing differently than we ever had and kinda didn’t know what we were doing. We realized Dave can blast insanely well. Then I just wanted to strum as fast as I can. We started caring less about following the same guidelines we always had, so we went for something new. It was like hardcore with a lot of blasting poured all over it then a few breakdowns stuffed in the middle. We realized two stepping kicks ass too.

What’s in the future for this band?
Continuing to live the dream. We’ve recorded, put out a tape, played OHC, and toured. That’s everything we’ve ever wanted to do and it’s all we’re gonna continue to do over and over! We’re gonna do some cool little stuff within the next few months then wanna do a tour in the summer that’s gonna be way too long for us to handle. We’re gonna go to olympia in a month and record 5 or 6 brand new songs then see how that gets put out.

Links and contact info:


ingrownhc.bandcamp.com

Band name:
GLEAMED

Date & location formed:
We formed in Apr. 2015 from Tokyo,Japan.

Reason for forming:
Spreading the heavy and brutal sound.

What are your lyrics about?
Hate,anger,depression,death and human stupidity.

How would you describe your sound?
Modern Powerviolence mixed with 90’s metalcore like Disembodied,early Zao etc.

What’s in the future for this band?
Our bassist might quit the band next year when he graduates from University. If so, our activity would get a little slower.

Gleamed (photo by Kazuma Kobayashi)

Links and contact info:

gleamedhc.bandcamp.com

Band name:
OBEDIENCE

Date & location formed:
Austin, TX 2016.

Reason for forming:
We (Dave and Chris) have talked about starting a project for years, and finally teamed up with like minded friends (Joe and Kevin) for some fast, straightforward hardcore.

What are your lyrics about?
Social commentary- not exclusively political. With all that’s been going on this year it’s hard to not fall into that.

How would you describe your sound?
We have multiple members bringing songs in and the results are usually pretty fast and short. US hardcore style with some Euro/Japan influence.

What’s in the future for this band?
Our debut 7″ (remixed version of our demo) will be out very soon on Fair Warning. New songs, more shows… Hopefully some touring in 2017!

Obedience (photo by Jack Barfield)

Links and contact info:

obedience.bandcamp.com
fairwarningrecords.bandcamp.com

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