Cutters - Landlord Nation

  

  Cutters (https://www.facebook.com/cutters138) are the Melbourne hardcore punk band who formed in 2019 and who first featured on here the following year  (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2020/07/cutters-chewed-up-fortune.html). 

 Since then they've been turning out great release after great release (here's a couple of them :  https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2021/06/cutters-australian-war-crimes.html /  https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2021/09/cutters-midnight-bus.html).  

  And now they're back with one of the highlights from their excellent debut album Psychic Injury. The band line up is SAVAGE GARBAGE - Vocals, GAZ - Guitar (STIFF RICHARDS), BAD BOY BRENNY - Bass (POLUTE / PUBLIC HOUSE) & DIRTY BIRD DONOHUE - Drums. The music is unrelenting. Pounding and pummeling but always accessible to those of us who like our noise to be tuneful. 

  It's available on several different colours of vinyl (very ltd so don't hang around) and digital download : https://cuttersmelbourne.bandcamp.com/album/psychic-injury

 This track is about greedy hoarders, it's called Landlord Nation... 

Hoard the land, hoard the houses, collect the rent, collect the wages,

passive income, collect the wages, people will pay for a place to live.

You got title, hoard the houses, you got capital, hoard the houses,
against the fourth, buy the fifth, people will pay for a place to live.

People will pay for a place to live.

If you can't inherit someone else's wealth, you're gonna be left living life on the shelf.

Landlord nation, there's something wrong,
they've been doing land hoards for far too long.

Snooper - I Think I’m Falling In Luv Again

  

  Snooper are a very cool punk band from Nashville, Tennessee who've been on the show several times but for some reason don't seem to have been on the blog. Today I'm righting that wrong. 

  Not sure what to correctly call them, egg punk? Devo-core? Hell, let's just settle for fast, playful and fun. If you've not come across them yet and want a starting off point then I'd recommend last year's album Super Snooper (https://snooper7.bandcamp.com/album/super-sn-per). It's an album with more than enough great tunes to make you fall in love with the band.

  Their latest release will have the same effect. It's a hyper version of an early Devo song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBwmx-nt1mc). It takes the essence of the song and rips through it in under a minute. You can get it here : 

https://snooper7.bandcamp.com/track/i-think-i-m-falling-in-luv-again-devo

  It's called I Think I'm Falling In Luv Again...

Sooks - Library (Guest Review By Paul Hammond)

  

  I featured Sooks a few days ago (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2024/05/sooks-medicareless.html) but just in case you didn't believe me, here's a 2nd opinion from Punk AF's Paul Hammond...

It’s not often these days that I get chance to listen to a whole album from any band let alone purchase one.

 

‘Sooks’ (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558047555029) are a 4 piece band from Perth, I’ve had quite a few non Australian listeners enquiring what is a ‘sook’, well it’s a female Crab!

 

There’s so many great female fronted punk bands around at the moment and these are another from the Australian gift that keeps on giving.

 

They’ve just dropped an album called ‘Moral Decay’ containing 14 tracks that pack a right punk rock punch.

 

Great catchy songs, dirty guitars and aggressive vocals delivered right in your face.

 

I’ve heard so many great Aussie girl punk from the likes of Amyl & The Sniffers, Vicious Blonde, Mitch Please, Backhand, & Dicklord just to name a few.

Sooks remind me a little of ‘Dickmove’ from New Zealand who are another great band.

 

The album is available on Bandcamp and very worthy of your attention. 

https://sooksband.bandcamp.com/album/moral-decay

 

Sooks are the featured band on Punk AF Radio next week Friday June 7^th.

This track is called Library...

Be Fair - Roddy Piper

  

  Be Fair (https://www.facebook.com/BeFairSY) the Sheffield/Leeds melodic punk quartet are no strangers to Just Some Punk Songs. I was lucky enough to stumble across their introductory demo 3 years ago https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2021/08/be-fair-cero-deniro.html and the release of a single the following year saw them return : 

https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2022/01/be-fair-veins-and-capillaries.html

  And now they've just put out one of their strongest songs so welcome back guys.

  It's the 3rd part of a trilogy of singles following on from Montreal Screwjob and Hadfield 5 and I think it's easiest just to let the band introduce it in their own words...

  "It’s 2020. The political system in the UK is a complete joke, led by a clown of a prime minister and a ruling party treating us like characters in a collective Sims game controlled by the elite. Be Fair hadn’t been a band for very long, forced in and out of isolation like the rest of the world. We had written our first set of songs, including this one. This song captures how I felt at that time. I was infuriated by the broken promises, hypocrisy, and double standards of our government. While we isolated from loved ones and people died, Parliament partied. People tore down statues, we saw a frightening rise in right-wing politics, and an institutional denial of inconvenient historical truths. I was enraged by what I witnessed day in and day out, but even more so by the fact that it's been this way for as long as I can remember, with no sign of change. Since then, I've sung this song countless times on stage to small audiences, usually at the end of our set when my untrained and unskilled vocals are nearly ripped from my throat. Yet, I still scream the last lines of this song with every last drop as hard as I did the first time, and I will continue to do so as long as I feel the same frustration. By some sort of serendipity, we finally decided to release this song—one we've had for years but never felt ready to share—just as a general election was announced in the UK.

  "Roddy Piper" is the name of a beloved Canadian wrestler turned actor who sadly passed away in 2015. The name was given to this song as a working title by our Wrestling loving guitarist Dickie - it stuck - and now that's what the songs called. We wrote it years ago, it has nothing to do with wrestling... but we love it, and hope you will to."

  You can find it on Spotify... https://open.spotify.com/track/6NDCXFFall1SuQeNpqwNej

  It's a song that starts slowly before building into a glorious crescendo of angst, it's called Roddy Piper... 

LEMON BOY - I'm Fine

    

  I don't know much about LEMON BOY (https://linktr.ee/lemonboyband). They're a trio from Seattle; Yasiman Ahsani (Guitar/Vocals), Nicole Giusti (Bass Guitar/Vocals) & Ethan Geller (Drums/Mastering). They tag their music as sour punk. What's sour punk? On the evidence of their new album, it's an attitude fueled mix of garage punk and riot grrrl. 

  That new album is titled Eat. Skate. Die. You can check it out here :  https://lemonboyband.bandcamp.com/album/eat-skate-die

  It's always good when a band you've just stumbled across choose a strong track to kick an album off with as it immediately grabs your attention. LEMON BOY did that with this song. It's called I'm Fine and it's definitely more than just fine... 

 I’m fine I’m doing just fine

 I’m fine I’m doing just fine

 The smell of cigarettes stuck in your hair

 Cause I’m tired of losing sleep

 In the corners of your sheets

 I’m sick I can’t compete

 With these golden city dreams

 I can’t go

 I can’t go anywhere

 I can’t go

 I’m fine I’m doing just fine

 I’m fine I’m doing alright

 It’s 6am can’t sleep

 Can’t stop grinding through my teeth

 You’re tired you can’t compete

 With these emerald city dreams

 I can’t go

 I can’t go anywhere

 I can’t go

 Maybe I’m addicted to the thoughts inside my head

 Maybe I just need someone to come and turn me on

 And on and on and on yeah yeah

 I’m fine I’m doing just fine

 I’m fine I’m doing just fine

 The smell of cigarettes stuck in your hair

 Cause I’m tired of losing sleep

 In the corners of your sheets

 I’m sick I can’t compete

 With these golden city dreams

 I can’t go

 I can’t go anywhere

 I can’t go We're fine!!

Echo Chambers - Empty Words (Guest Review By Paul Austin)

  

  Another guest review today by Paul Austin of Revolt Into Style Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063450477170). 

  Echo Chambers (https://www.facebook.com/echochambersrdg) are a DIY punk/alternative band from Reading UK that play songs about ”life, liberty and lawnmowers!”

  Formed in the lockdown of summer 2020 they have already released a few tracks and now a new EP “Versificator” which, after a quick bit of investigative work, means “one who creates verse;a poet”. They're a trio with a line up of Alice Brown (Drums/Vocals), Alan Gow (Guitar/Vocals) & Charlie Loveday (Bass/Vocals). 

  There are 4 tracks on the EP that musically sit in the punk structure with some great lyrics. The EP kicks off with the track “Empty Words”, which is very relevant here in the UK as we enter into 6 weeks of “national empty words” campaigns. The second track “Not My Job” is a brilliantly observed story of all the things you should be capable of doing yourself, like picking up after your dog and forming your own musical opinions. 

  Next up “Physical Things”, which reminded me lyrically of some of Buzzcocks songs where Pete Shelley used to list things, like in the track “I Believe”. This track is all about things the band like, such as “fish and chips” and “pick `n` mix”. Closing out the EP is musically the least “punk” track called “Cry” which lyrically is a bit more introspective.

  Overall a great EP and would recommend it. You can check it out here :  https://echochambersrdg.bandcamp.com/album/versificator

  This is Empty Words... 

Cut Piece - GUGI

   

   I'M GIVING UP ON GIVING IN...

  Cut Piece are from Portland, Oregon and feature vocalist Laura from Petite (a band who featured on here a few years back https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2017/12/petite-torches.html) alongside Mary (drums), Samantha (bass) & Zach (guitar). I posted a song from their Self Titled ep last year :  https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2023/09/cut-piece-accept-defeat-dont-sabotage-me.html

  Today sees the release of a debut album titled Your Own Good and it's every bit as impressive as I was expecting. It's available on vinyl and digital from Total Punk Records with the label enthusing thus; "Songs about the fucked-up state of our world, the overwhelming apathy of the population at large, self-empowerment, and the creeps who lurk the neighborhood. Featuring one of the hardest bangers in the game, a constant barrage of hook exchanges between the wiry guitars and rumbling bass, and a powerful vocalist shouting out calls to protest, ‘Your Own Good’ is an absolute banger of a debut. Dark, powerful, and 100% TOTAL PUNK!"

  https://totalpunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/your-own-good

 https://linktr.ee/cutpiece

  I'm going to highlight the closing track as it has the same passion and intensity as the preceding 10 songs but the addition of some brass instrumentation sees it standing out from the crowd. It reminds me a little of Downtown Boys. It's called GUGI... 

Judy And The Jerks - Worth A Shot

  

  Hattiesburg (Mississippi) hell-raisers Judy And The Jerks return today with a blink and you'll miss it track from their new split album with Parma (Italy) power punks Shitty Life.

  Featuring a line up of Julie Gore (vocals), Austin Griffith (guitar), Hampton Martin (bass) & Sarah Krock (drums), Judy and the Jerks are a band that are at their most ferocious on this release. They rattle through 10 songs in well under 10 minutes and by the end of their contribution you're gasping for breath... but there's no let up as Shitty Life step up to the plate with another 4 bangers (one of which I'll play on next week's Just Some Punk Songs show).

  You can snap up the split on cassette or as a name your price download from Earth Girl Tapes :  https://earthgirltapes.bandcamp.com/album/split 

  And if you fancy experiencing the mayhem in a live setting there's a tour on the way...

SUMMER 2024 SHITTY LIFE / JUDY TOUR

 07 JUNE - NYC, NEW YORK - Oh Bondage, Up Yours Fest*

 09 JUNE - BRISTOL - ENGLAND - The Exchange *

 10 JUNE - SHEFFIELD - ENGLAND - Delicious Clam *

 11 JUNE - LEEDS - ENGLAND - Mabgate Bleach *

 12 JUNE - LONDON - ENGLAND - Shacklewell Arms *

 14 JUNE - ITALY - PADOVA - Yucca Fest

 15 JUNE - SLOVENIA - ILIRSKA BISTRICA - MKNZ

 16 JUNE - CROATIA - ZAGREB - Club Attack

 17 JUNE - SERBIA - BELGRAD - Akab Okretnica

 18 JUNE - HUNGARY - BUDAPEST - Kripta

 19 JUNE - AUSTRIA - WIEN - Rhiz

 20 JUNE - CZECH REP. - PRAGUE - Dragon H Fest

 21 JUNE - POLAND - POBIEDNA - Izero Hardcore Fest

 22 JUNE - GERMANY - BURGHAUSEN - Burgkellar Bar

 23 JUNE - ITALY - TRENTO - Smash Fest!

 *NO SHITTY LIFE

  This song is Worth A Shot...   

Celebration Summer - For Want Of

  

  Celebration Summer (https://www.facebook.com/CelebrationSummer) are a melodic punk band with gruff vocals from Washington DC who featured on this blog a couple of years ago :  https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2022/08/celebration-summer-fraud.html

You can check out their music here : https://celebrationsummer.bandcamp.com/

  They return today with their contribution to a compilation album from For Love Of Records titled Yesterday & Today: DC Does Dischord. It's the label's first ever release and what a way to kick things off. A lovingly compiled homage showcasing the dynamism & diversity of Washington DC label Dischord. 

  It boasts 27 bands putting their own unique spin on a bunch of classic tracks. It's available as a gatefold double vinyl LP with a portion of the proceeds to benefit We Are Family DC (wearefamilydc.org). You can indulge yourself on some great music here :  https://forloveofrecords.bandcamp.com/album/yesterday-today-dc-does-dischord

  One of the treasures plucked from the trove is this cover of a track featured of Rites Of Spring's 1985 S/T album. It's called For Want Of... 

I, I believed memory might mirror no reflections on me
I, I believed that in forgetting I might set myself free
But I woke up this morning with a piece of past caught in my throat
And then I choked

I, I bled, I tried to hide the heart from the head
And I, I said I bled in the arms of a girl I'd barely met
But I woke up this morning with the present in splinters on the ground
And then I drowned

And if I can't see, it's for want of you

You said I see, if there's nothing here, then it's probably mine
Well, my, my turn to see, if there's nothing here it'll always be mine, mine
I woke up this morning with a piece of past caught in my throat
And then I choked

I, I guess I've learned the taste of the days that will always burn
I, I guess I've learned if it's in the corner of my eye, well I can always turn
'Cause I woke up this morning with the present in splinters on the ground
And then I drowned, yeah

And if I don't see, it's for want of you, you

SOOKS - Medicareless

 Doctor Doctor Will You Meet My Needs
  Are You Gonna Take My Pain Quite Seriously
  Doctor Doctor Listen To Me
  Cause I Know What's Right For My Body...

  SOOKS (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558047555029) are an exciting new(ish) band from Perth, Australia who attracted attention back in 2022 with the release of a blistering 7 track Demo cassette. 

  Featuring a line up of Rudah (Drums), Ange (Words/Vocals), Morgin (Bass) & Kyle (Guitars/Composition) I think it's safe to say that the release of their debut album has seen them more than fulfil that early promise.

  The album's titled Moral Decay and it's a hardcore punk fans wet dream. Aggressive but accessible, lean and mean it's an album you'll be revisiting again and again. It's available via Permanent Residence on 12" vinyl and on digital : https://sooksband.bandcamp.com/album/moral-decay

  I played album opener Library on a recent show and I'll play a different one next week but for the blog it seems rude not to go with the video they've just released. This is Medicareless... 

Fantasy Premier League Final Table

 

  Here's the final table for the Just Some Punk Songs league. Congratulations to Vinny Vincent on his     3rd successive victory with his team Dingo Ate My Baby. Congratulations also to Harrison Flint who's team Harrison's XI beat Graham Powell's Red Man Walking 69-63 in the cup final. 

Rank	Team & Manager	GW	TOT
1	Dingo Ate My Baby Vinny Vincent	75	2372
2	El Loco Motives Richard Howe	84	2353
3	Rebel Express AFC Tim Bray	62	2337
4	Haggis's Heroes Phil Harris	71	2320
5	BOVINE BANJO BASHERS Skot McGuffog	72	2313
6	Wretched Rovers Pete Marler	77	2285
7	sameheads Jack Collinson	80	2225
8	Inner City Sumo FC Chris Collins	74	2225
9	Harrison’s XI Harrison Flint	69	2217
10	Marxist Rashford James Coppard	80	2217
11	Rays Dreamers RAYMOND PLANT	54	2181
12	Just Some Punk Songs Mick Fletcher	51	2180
13	Red Man Walking Graham Powell	63	2174
14	Back in a Minute Gary Webb	66	2160
15	Playing To The Crowd Matthew Rayner	49	2157
16	What the Herr Daniel Rob Wilkinson	72	2153
17	Stenbungalowmuir Alan Beningfield	92	2144
18	Hello you counts paul spice	59	2137
19	Colin's Team Colin Clark	63	2121
20	Fat Latch FC Ian Jay	55	2097
21	Quigley XI Joseph Quigley	46	2080
22	ACES ANDREW PLANT	56	2045
23	CyberHawk Gary Hough	43	2020
24	Richter Scale United Steven Milton	40	1983
25	Enter the Pieman Simon Poxon	55	1979
26	Stärkande Starköl Anders Jacobsson	52	1966
27	Change Name Josh Poxon	38	1746
28	EzeLikeSundayMorning D M	34	1447