Punk

LP+MP3. >From their inception in 1988 until their hiatus in 2006, the Lungfish music band released 11 full-length albums and played concerts across the United States and in Europe. The band is renowned for intense creative productivity, releasing albums annually from the years 1992-2000. Originally released in 1997, "Indivisible" was the group's fifth album. Lungfish is now, as it often has been, quasi if not entirely defunct. However, since the release of the band's last album in 2005, "Feral Hymns", singer Daniel Higgs has embarked on a solo career, releasing albums on Northern Liberties, Thrill Jockey and Holy Mountain. In November, he will tour supporting Drag City artists, Om. Asa Osborne is currently recording and performing solo material under the name, Zomes. Style: Punk/Hardcore

Everything about Canadian power-duo Indian Handcrafts seems to defy possibilities: a two piece that's louder than a hundred bands, kicking out one of the year's most riff-rollicking albums that was recorded while the guitarist had a broken hand! They're two friendly, soft-spoken Canadian guys sounding like the Funkadelic Mothership crash landing on top of the Planet Caravan in Interstellar Overdrive. Indian Handcrafts' well honed, massive melodic heft seems to belie the simplicity of instrumentation between drummer/vocalist Brandyn James Aikins and guitarist/vocalist Daniel Brandon Allen. While their songs feature hints of heavy, technically skilled bands like Big Business, Hella and Tweakbird, there are also strong melodies and a vocal intensity inviting comparisons to artists ranging from Death From Above 1979 to Jack White. Top that all off with a rhythmic groove reminiscent of a hybrid of ZZ Top's Tres Hombres and Funkadelic's Standing On The Verge of Getting It On and it's clear that Indian Handcrafts are much, much more than the sum of their parts. Bursting out of Barrie, Ontario this pair of charming gentlemen immediately impacted the world with a self-released 8-song debut album in 2011. Cathy Pellow of Sargent House quickly took notice and signed the band on to management and the label. Shortly thereafter, Civil Disobedience For Losers was recorded in Los Angeles in March 2012 with engineer Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Big Business, Red Sparowes) and featuring special guest appearances by Melvins drummers Dale Crover and Coady Willis. Even with such superfriends assisting the proceedings, Indian Handcrafts prove their own exceptional strengths throughout the album. "The doctor said if you go and record that's your problem if it gets worse," Allen explains of recording with a broken hand. "It was a little painful some days, but because of being there in the surroundings it was easy to get around that. It healed fine." Overall, the duo says the recording came together very quickly under Kasai's guidance, but it's the bond between Aikins and Allen that gives Indian Handcrafts its lean, ferocious personality. "We first started this band when playing in another band that was pissing us off," Aikins says. "We were the two who always got along. I can't ever see us having anyone else in the band. Unless Toshi played tambourine." Album opener "Bruce Lee" kicks off (as it were) with a storming drop tuned guitar riff for which Soundgarden would've killed decades ago and surreptitiously eases into a breakdown worthy of Funkadelic's Cosmic Slop before leaping headlong into a blazing double-time group chant crescendo led by triple marching snare drums courtesy of Aikins and special guests Crover and Willis of the Melvins. "Red Action" pulls Grand Funk boogie into a violent confrontation with HEALTH level effect pummeling as Aikins and Allen trade vocal-chord shredding harmonized screams. "Terminal Horse" blazes along on a harmonized riff while the dual vocalists spit out lyrics as if their lives depended on it. Elsewhere, Indian Handcrafts go in for the kill on the explosive "Centauri Teenage Riot" pitting the fury of teen angst against a wall of guitars and the dual drum attack of Aikins and Crover. On "The Jerk" chiming, delay-soaked post-punk guitar counters a propulsive 60s R&B beat as the vocalists spin a tale of seemingly depraved sex: "said you wanted a lovah, so we went down south and tried to find you a lovah/ You wanted a lovah/ You got with the other." Throughout, infectious guitar riffs, intense vocal harmonies and pounding drums spin wildly out of control as they churn out headbanging rock so catchy it seems like it's been a forgotten art for countless decades. Vinyl, LP, Album

Record Label: Side One Dummy Style: Punk/Hardcore

Complete Control Radio is a nationally syndicated radio show hosted by SideOneDummy Records co-owner Joe Sib. Samiam Complete Control Session is the forth in this ongoing series. Recorded and engineered at Swing House in Hollywood, CA, Mixed by Chris Bee Record Label: Side One Dummy Style: Punk/Hardcore

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Includes digital download coupon with bonus track! Election fever is here and even more of a circus than usual, so who better to jump in and stir up trouble than Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine? Their new EP SHOCK-U-PY! is the perfect s Record Label: Alternative Tentacles Style: Punk/Hardcore

Vinyl comes in Gatefold sleeve with a digital download card. The second full-length release from Title Fight. Recorded with Will Yip at Studio 4 Recording in Conshohocken, PA during May and June of 2012. Vinyl, LP, Album, Green, Gatefold, Slide-In

The second full-length release from Title Fight. Recorded with Will Yip at Studio 4 Recording in Conshohocken, PA during May and June of 2012. CD, Album

FANTASTIC 180 GRAM VINYL REISSUE OF HELMETS SECOND ALBUM. Meantime is the second album and major-label debut by Helmet, released in 1992 on Interscope Records. Meantime has continued to sell consistently well in the years since its release, and in 1994 was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. Helmet released one single from Meantime, "Unsung", which was a charting success on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart, and remains their best-known song. The album itself reached #68 on Billboard's Top 200; an unexpected success for the band. Music videos were also made for "Unsung", "Give It" and "In the Meantime". Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Reissue, White, 180g

Considered a reference recording for European punk, Anti Todo (1985) has been out of print for years due to legal issues between the band and their old record company, finally we've been able to recover the original masters, that have been re-worked by Xa Record Label: Bcore Disc Style: Garage Rock

In The Land of Silver Souls expands on the sounds explored on Rising Mountains, pushing the experience further into psychedelic territory while retaining the band's signature attitude and charm. Their sneering rock and roll attitude may suggest they don't care if you like their music or not, but after one listen to In The Land of Silver Souls, it's going to be hard not to. Deep grooving rhythms and wailing guitars are ever present as the band shift between blazing riffs, spacey exploration, shimmering walls of sound, and thick catchy vocal melodies for an album that is sure to make noise in 201 Vinyl, Album, LP

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion returns with their Meat and Bone, the long-awaited follow up to 2004′s Damage. CD, Album

Legendary melodic punk rockers Strike Anywhere are set to announce a live acoustic collection CD/LP/Digital formats, titled In Defiance of Empty Times. Two sets were recorded last year, in Rochester last July and Richmond last September, and merged togeth Record Label: Bridge Nine Style: Punk Rock

Punk Rock vets, NOFX, have announced the release of their new album, Self Entitled, via Fat Wreck Chords on September 17th. As a follow-up to 2009's Coaster, it will be the band's TWELFTH studio album. Style: Punk

The Mignon story goes back to 2001 when she toured alongside Peaches as a performer and vocalist. Discovering a similar taste in music and a desire to shock audiences, they began to co-wrote and perform tracks together, playing at UK festivals Leeds and Reading as well as Australia's Big Day Out. In 2003 Mignon kicked off her solo career with performances across the UK, USA and Europe. Her punk demeanour and appetite for hair-raising rock'n' roll has seen her having practically toured the world, sharing the stage with the likes of Peaches, Trail of Dead.., Queens of The Stone Age and Chicksonspeed. These live performances became best known for erupting with a combination of face-paint and smoke-bombs, bloodied nurses and military ensembles, fake knives and fiery leather pants. Mignon self-produced her debut album 'Bad Evil Wicked and Mean' in Berlin and invited guests such as Lady Miss Kier(Deelite), Peaches, Thomas Wydler(Bad Seeds), Quan Yeomans(Regurgitator), Gonzales and Taylor Savvy to contribute. The album was released in in 2007. Now in 2012 Mignon returns to unleash her second album iss Of Death' which will be backed by performances with her newly assembled band across the world during back half of 2011 and into 2012. CD, Album