COLD MEAT - Hot and Flustered LP preorder

The debut LP from COLD MEAT is just around the corner! 'Hot and Flustered' is up for pre-order now and will be released on March 20th. You can check out Bad Mood and ZZ Top Hat below!

“Agh! A fresh chop from the large dusty burning murder island: Cold is the Meat to beat. Perth’s finest flesh purveyors have upped their naughty game here across ten tracks of gleefully haughty punk. Hot and Flustered is somehow at once extremely camp and deadly serious. Ashley’s vengeful, elastic rasp smears menses down the screwfaces of vacuous tastemakers, climate change deniers, perennial street perverts, and of course, ZZ top fans. There’s some surprisingly poignant forays into melody (Beach Photography) and a good grip of sudden tempo fuckery to keep us well and truly hooked. Their signature chubby and defiant riffs under snarky bouncing toms formula extends well to the album form, creating a timely reminder that hate and fear are more than reasonable responses to our hell predicament. Let’s take comfort in collective ridicule. When it’s too hot to pogo because the sky is on fire, Cold Meat will let us writhe around in the dirt like the little piggies we are.” (Bryony Beynon)

Well, after a slew of 7” offerings, Perth’s Cold Meat have finally hit us with a full length record. Much like their last few releases they’ve taken an amped up approach to 70s PUNK but this time round they offer ever so slightly more diversity. Ten tracks clocking in at just over 23 minutes and cut at 45rpm for maximum volume. Get hot and flustered.

Artwork by Jennifer Calandra
Recorded and mixed by Al Smith
Mastered by Daniel Husayn at North London Bomb Factory

150 copies on red vinyl for mailorder! Pre order here. Australians, please order from Helta Skelta Records.

CHUBBY AND THE GANG American tour dates

CHUBBY AND THE GANG - Speed Kills LP preorders!

Very excited to announce the debut LP from CHUBBY AND THE GANG! 'Speed Kills' is coming out on January 16th and is up for preorder right now. 

"The debut full length from London's loudest. Wall to wall speedy punk bordering on the recklessness of Motorhead, the single mindedness of the Kids, the streetwise panache of Cockney Rejects, and the occasional curveball pasted in to keep us all surprised. This LP is timeless vernacular perfection peppered with misleadingly obvious displays of brashness aching their way into the hallways of surprising musical channels. "Can't Tell Me Nothing" could have been on a Rip Off Records 7" from 20 years ago, "Trouble" - a love song to Chubby's one true muse: being naughty - is like an ironed and overdriven Wreckless Eric, "Grenfell Forever" is taken from the empty glass of the Billy Bragg back catalogue. All that alongside the sneering eternity of "All Along the Uxbridge Road," the Hammond Organ smeared "Bruce Grove Bullies" -- it will all have you reaching for your London A to Z and trying your hardest not to spill your pint. (Jonah Falco)"

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PHYSIQUE hit Europe

Olympia's PHYSIQUE will be coming to the UK and Europe for the first time in November! They'll also have a new release coming out on Static Shock for over here and Distort Reality over there. More info on that later.

Here's the FB event for the tour.

MINIMA

Say hi to MINIMA! A new Barcelona band featuring members of UNA BESTIA INCONTROLABLE, NO, FATAMORGANA, BARCELONA and SNOR. Their debut LP is just around the corner and up for pre-order now. Should be out for the end of the month! Check out a couple of tracks at the link below.

"The first album by Minima, a new band comprising of members of No, Una Bestia Incontrolable, Snor and Barcelona is full of the kind of choice punk you'd expect of such a pedigree: jabbing riffs thrumming out, buzzed up with an insistent pull, clipped clattering beats pinning it down, vocals delivered with a potent snarl, accusatory and savage. From fizzing pogo of 'Adolescente', to 'Cicatriz's threatening hum, the whole album strikes a sharp balance between the big-riffing hardcore of someone like Glue or Nekra, and the Catalan / Spanish primitive-punk lineage that runs from Qloaqa Letal to dirt-raw rippers Pinen. (Joe Briggs)"

NEGATIVE GEARS European tour

NEGATIVE GEARS will be coming over from Sydney for their first European tour in a couple of weeks time. Try and see them if they play near you, they've come a long way! 

01.06.2019 Eisenberg - H2O Turm Festival 

02.06.2019 Kiel - Fahrradkinokombinat 

03.06.2019 Hamburg - Hafenklang 

04.06.2019 Amsterdam - Skatepark Noord

05.06.2019 Bremen - Sielwallhaus

06.06.2019 Antwerp - Music City 

07.06.2019 Recklinghausen - Akz 

08.06.2019 Mannheim - Pfingstfest at Juz 

09.06.2019 Modena - Handmade Festival 

10.06.2019 Milan - tba 

11.06.2019 Graz - Sub 

12.06.2019 Zagreb - Mocvara 

13.06.2019 Brno - Kabinet Muz 

14.06.2019 Vienna - Venster 

15.06.2019 Berlin - An Der Autobahn

Facebook event page is here.

IDIOTA CIVLIZZATO 7" and tour

IDIOTA CIVILIZZATO will be hitting the USA next month, and will have a new 7" in tow!

SSR068: IDIOTA CIVILIZZATO - CIVILTÁ IDIOTA 7"

The idiots are back with a follow up to last years powerhouse LP! Due to some wonderful visa issues the band are currently scattered around the world, but don't worry, the vibe of a midwest American hardcore band lost on the way to the infamous Virus squat in Milan (and we're talking pre-internet age of course, plus their A-Z isn't doing them many favours) is still strong. Four new tracks and a one time pressing.