Punk – Rocknerd

Buddhadatta and Friends: Two Melbourne Shows

25 March, 202525 March, 2025 Live, Punk 0

Buddhadatta describe themselves as Japanese buddhist-punk, which is an thoroughly enticing combination of adjectives.

Synthetic nostalgia: Punk band Dead Boys plans album with AI Stiv Bators, current vocalist quits in disgust.

28 November, 2024 Punk 0

Cleopatra Records seems to have proposed the AI-vocal album, which is an extremely Cleopatra sort of move.

Schkeuditzer Kreuz: Isolated and Alone (2021).

3 March, 202319 March, 2023 Industrial, Punk, Record 0

Punk rock in early hardcore style through industrial electronics.

Records: Throat (2018, 2020); Microlaxx (2021).

13 February, 202113 February, 2021 Punk, Record, Rock 0

Less Nirvana and more Fugazi, and no fashionability whatsoever. “The kind of rock that was 20 years past its expiration date.”

Vale Damien Lovelock, 1954-2019 — the last Celibate Rifles show, 19 May 2018.

4 August, 20194 August, 2019 Indie, Punk, Rock 0

The Celibate Rifles’ official Facebook posted a link to what turned out to be their last gig — Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 19 May 2018. Here’s the complete video.

Martin Rev on “Suicide” by Suicide.

22 July, 201922 July, 2019 Punk, Record 0

Dangerous Minds interviews Martin Rev, going through the recording process for the first Suicide album.

Records: Cortez (2018), Statiqbloom, various goths (2019).

8 July, 20198 July, 2019 Goth, Industrial, Metal, Punk, Record 0

The review pile is full of alternative buttrock industrial.

Links: Bauhaus, WFMU Free Music Archive saved, post-punk indie labels, Pete Shelley’s XL-1 videos, Boy Harsher.

21 December, 2018 Esoterica, Goth, Industrial, Links, Post-Punk, Punk 0

What’s important to understand about entertainment from the 60s or 70s or 80s is that the entire audience is lead-poisoned, poisoning their kids with lead, pumping drugs cut with industrial solvents bought outside their kids’ schools, which are also poisoning the kids with lead.

Records: Dew, Irk, Transmaniacon featuring Lydia Lunch and Maya Berlin (2018).

6 November, 20187 January, 2019 Indie, Industrial, Metal, Punk, Record, Rock 0

Dew and Irk are both remarkable finds and produce the correct horrible racket, though the loved one compared Irk to a sack of hammers falling down stairs.

The Twinkles: We Come Along (2018).

4 September, 20185 September, 2018 Pop, Punk, Record 0

A 10 song album that is everything you’ve been looking for if you’re sad that The Vandals haven’t had a full length release since 2004.

Pastoratet: THLM (2018).

10 August, 201810 August, 2018 Punk, Record 0

A nice combo of hardcore and surf punk, it’s got a mellow, melodic feel that edges toward pop-punk but brings in just a tiny bit of metal to keep an edge to the sound.

Reviews: Marsy, Dot Dash (2018).

28 July, 201828 July, 2018 Pop, Punk, Record 0

Yeah, putting a Bandcamp embed into reviews is clearly the right thing.

rosewater: Love Bomb, rosewater AKA (2018).

15 June, 201815 June, 2018 Post-Punk, Punk, Record 0

Both little works have great songs on them but Love Bomb is mind-blowingly perfect. Clark and Brooke’s voices and guitars blend into a sweet, grungy, fun sound.