Bad People- Pearls Before Swine EP review

Bad People- Pearls Before Swine EP review

Garage-y punk with a sneery tune and an unending drive of tuneless fidgety weirdness.  It’s organized, but only enough to stitch together the essential parts of a song and even then, it’s stretching it.  However spacey the idea of the song is, the energy to drive that forward is there- in the modern day, it seems like an art project, but in days past, this would have fit right next to Lydia Lunch, the Dead Boys, Cinecyde, or most of the bands on the New York Thrash compilation LP.  Very weird, very good.

-Aunty Social

Better Times- Better Measures EP review

Better Times- Better Measures EP review

This group is a contemporary take on youth crew, positive and slightly left-leaning in politics; it’s fun two-stepping music and sing-a-long jams for those who prefer hardcore over punk rock.  You’ve heard these kinds of songs before, so don’t expect a new take on old music- that being said, this is among the better groups in that (sort of) east coast hardcore wave sweeping New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia.  Reading the lyrics, at least these guys are grounded and not part of some hardcore celebrity and popularity game.  In other words, these guys probably live the words they sing, simple as they may be.  I really dug the bass lines and the mentioning of the Occupy movements- if you like Youth of Today, Bold, Ten Yard Fight, or Floorpunch, these guys won’t steer you wrong.

-Aunty Social