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Ziggy Alberts

Runaway

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Leeds

Brudenell Social Club

"It’s been a decade since Algernon Cadwallader was “laid to rest,” as its farewell blog post stated, but the Pennsylvania band’s legacy continues to thrive. The group was part of the mid-2000s emo revival, pairing Midwest emo with math-rock musicianship. Algernon Cadwallader released two studio albums, a pair of EPs, and several other recordings over the course of seven years. In 2018, Pitchfork gave their reissued debut album an 8.3 out of 10, saying “Some Kind of Cadwallader still leaps out of the speakers, an album that treats its songs like secrets they’re dying to share."

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Algernon Cadwallader

Spit Fountain

Prepare to be transported across 40 years of Bowie, from Spaceboy to Superstar, by Ed Blaney's ULTIMATE BOWIE. Ed not only possesses Bowies awe-inspiring vocal prowess but is also the definitive look-alike of Bowie. A performer who easily commands the eyes of the audience every moment he is on stage, Ed blends past and present, showing the many sides of Bowies chameleon personality. Precise attention to detail has been taken under Eds musical direction of his seven-piece band through to the costumes he wears to recreate Bowie in spectacular style.

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Ultimate Bowie

Glastonbury warm-up show for Squeeze legend Glenn Tilbrook and his astounding South East London backing band Beautiful Landing. Expect a show leafing through the plentiful Squeeze back catalogue, plus solo picks and few surprise covers.

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Glenn Tilbrook and Beautiful Landing

Glenn Tilbrook

Jack Botts is breath of fresh air out of the Northern Rivers of NSW, creating a brand of surf folk drenched in depth and substance. His EP's 'Summer Nights' and 'Northern Rivers' showcase this in droves, with Jack's latest single '18th Floor' taking the listener on a journey high up into the clouds with pure euphoria.

His sound is perfect for bringing those coastal road trip vibes to life, and his live shows are no different, ranging from bars, venues and festival stages, to busking on the streets anywhere that there's a good vibe.

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Jack Botts

"Marissa Paternoster is one of the best guitar players alive.”

\-Kathleen Hanna

Once you start looking for them, you’ll see desire paths everywhere. In parks and driveways, parking lots and apartment complexes, in front of corner stores, libraries, schools and offices.

“Maybe there was one in your neighborhood growing up, a corner where everyone decided it took too long to go around, so they made their own pathway to cut through,” says Marissa Paternoster, singer and guitarist of Screaming Females. “There’s this cool unsaid group consciousness that comes together where everyone decides, this is the right way to go.”

Now a band for half the lifetime of its members, Screaming Females have long been pounding out their own desire path. Formed in 2005 in New Brunswick, NJ, the trio has consistently created a hearty, surprising mix of indie-, alt-, punk- and stoner-rock, all with their original line-up of Paternoster, “King Mike” Mike Abbate (bass) and Jarrett Dougherty (drums).

Released on February 17th by Don Giovanni Records, Desire Pathway was recorded at Minnesota’s Pachyderm Studios (where Nirvana recorded In Utero) and produced by Matt Bayles (Foxing, Pearl Jam, Mastodon, et al). Bright and full, the album captures the band at a time when nothing was certain other than their abiding desire to make music together.

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Screaming Females

Because the Night

Lord of the Lost is a German industrial metal band from Hamburg, formed by singer and frontman Chris Harms. They are set to represent Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with the song "Blood & Glitter".

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Lord Of The Lost

Drag Me to Hell

Lord of the Lost

WILLI CARLISLE is a poet and a folk singer for the people, but his extraordinary gift for turning a phrase isn't about high falutin' pontificatin'; it's about looking out for one another and connecting through our shared human condition. Born and raised on the Midwestern plains, Carlisle is a product of the punk to folk music pipeline that's long fueled frustrated young men looking to resist. After falling for the rich ballads and tunes of the Ozarks, where he now lives, he began examining the full spectrum of American musical history. This insatiable stylistic diversity is obvious in his wildly raucous live performances, where songs range from sardonic trucker-ballads like "Vanlife" to the heartbreaking queer waltz "Life on the Fence," to an existential talkin' blues about a panic attack in Walmart's aisle five. With guitar, fiddle, button-box, banjo, harmonicas, rhythm-bones, and Willi's booming baritone, this is bonafide populist folk music in the tradition of cowboys, frontier fiddlers, and tall-tale tellers. Carlisle recognizes that the only thing holding us back from greatness is each other. With a quick wit and big sing-alongs, these folksongs bring us a step closer to breaking down our divides.

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Willi Carlisle

Vanlife

After a nine-year hiatus, Laura Cantrell, a long-beloved presence in the U.S. and international Americana & Roots music scene, is back with a new studio album Just Like A Rose: The Anniversary Sessions. Set to be released on June 9, 2023 on the Propeller Sound Recordings label, the album features turns from Laura’s longtime friends Steve Earle, Buddy Miller, Rosie Flores and Paul Burch, and was produced variously by Don Fleming (Sonic Youth/Teenage Fanclub), David Mansfield (Bob Dylan, T-Bone Burnett), Rosie Flores (Wanda Jackson, Janis Martin) with Ed Stasium (Talking Heads, Ramones), and Paul Burch (Lambchop, Ralph Stanley), and features musicians Mark Spencer (Son Volt, Lisa Loeb), Jeremy Chatzky (Ronnie Spector, Bruce Springsteen), Kenny Vaughan (Marty Stuart's Fabulous Superlatives), Fats Kaplan (John Prine, Jack White), Dennis Crouch (Robert Plant, Diana Krall), and Jen Gunderman (Sheryl Crow, Jayhawks). Co-writers on the album include Mark Winchester (Randy Travis, Carlene Carter), Fred Wilhelm (Rascal Flats, Faith Hill), Gary Burr (Patty Loveless, Ringo Starr) and others.

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Laura Cantrell

Two Seconds

Doug Levitt

Singer songwriter, painter, essayist - Tom Russell has recorded thirty five highly acclaimed records, & published five books - including a book on his art and a book of his songs. Tom Russell songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Doug Sahm, Nanci Griffith, K.D. Lang, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Ian Tyson, Iris Dement, Joe Ely, and a hundred others. Tom Russell graduated from The University of California with a Master's Degree in Criminology. He was recently awarded the 2015 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism & has appeared on Late Night with David Letterman TV show five times.

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Tom Russell

Fervor

The most Famous Dutch Prog Rock export! Focus the band has been at the forefront of the Prog Rock scene for 50 years! Come join the Fun!!

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Focus

FOCUS

Riding The Low were formed in 2006 by Paddy Considine, after he had a revelation watching indie rockers Guided By Voices. The band are named after a quote from a Lee Marvin biography that Considine had given his father as a gift. Upon reading the book after his father's death, Paddy knew instantly that this would be the name of his band. All he needed now was to find the other musicians. Richard Eaton had been in bands with Considine since they were teenagers so it was a given Eaton would play bass. Through Eaton came Chris Baldwin and then Dan Baker on guitars, and with a revolving seat of drummers Riding The Low was born. Their latest album titled: ‘The Death Of Gobshite Rambo’ saw the band finding their studio groove at Magic Garden studios. ‘Gobshite Rambo’ is their most complete work to date. The band sonically and lyrically explore themes of triumph and loss and have expanded their repertoire by introducing beautiful string arrangements and punchy brass. The band’s new single, ‘End This Attack’ is due for release in November 2022. Riding The Low are due to head into the studio early in 2023 to record their next album, ‘Of The World Form Dead Zones’. Paddy: “We have six albums written which are all lined up like movies. Each has a different theme, but they all seem to link. Lyrically ‘Gobshite Rambo’ spoke a lot about my childhood, but ‘Dead Zones’ speaks about the world at large. Particularly what has been happening in the past eighteen months or so.”

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Riding The Low

Easy on Our Own

Ladyhawke

Tommy Lefroy 

American Football is an American emo/indie rock band from Urbana, Illinois, originally active from 1997 to 2000. The band was formed by guitarist and singer Mike Kinsella (formerly of Cap'n Jazz, The One Up Downstairs, Joan of Arc, Owls and currently of Owen) and drummer Steve Lamos (formerly of The One Up Downstairs and currently of The Geese), and also included guitar player Steve Holmes.

The band had few live performances and disbanded less than a year after releasing their self-titled album; still, they gained critical acclaim for that album, which merged the plain-spoken, confessional lyrics of emo and the varying time signatures of math rock with a softer musical sensibility.

Mike Kinsella explained the band's name thus: "My girlfriend had been in Dublin, Ireland visiting her family. One of the things she brought home for me was a flyer for a Chicago Bears exhibition game that said: "Come see American Football, featuring the most overpaid athletes in the world." Something about that statement made me think of rock bands, most of whom are the most overpaid musicians in the world. When I suggested it as a name, the other guys thought it was dumb. Still, for whatever reason, we kept it".

The band regrouped in 2014 for two shows to promote the re-issue of their self-titled album.

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American Football

A rock/folk/pop collective captained by Scott McCaughey (see: “Scott McCaughey” c/o “The Internet”, for further reliable information), with Peter Buck often aboard as navigation officer. By design from its inception, the line-up for recordings and live appearances is completely fluid, dependent on musician availability, whim, and wind direction. Collaborators regularly feature friends from R.E.M. (as it once were), Wilco, Decemberists, Posies, and literally hundreds and hundreds of other recalcitrant comrade combos. Everyone gives their all, and no one need be counted on.

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The Minus 5 and The No Ones

Cigarettes Coffee and Booze

The Minus 5

The No Ones

The only tribute to have been featured on the band's official website, and being the only tribute to have been requested by and to have performed live on stage with Jon Bon Jovi himself!

"Have you seen this guy. He looks so much like Jon Bon Jovi it's freaky man" - Chad Kroeger, Nickelback.

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The Bon Jovi Experience

Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer

Leeds, 1983. Three tearaway school mates are skipping school to listen to Hendrix, MC5, The Stooges, Lou Reed and daydreaming about becoming rock stars. But even the most idealistic adolescent couldn’t have guessed just how quickly those dreams would become reality.

The band name arrived in early ‘84 and just 12 months later, having not yet played a gig, this fresh-faced ragtag band were in the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios recording their own John Peel session.

Young, naive, and still learning their craft, however right from the off they were churning out finely tuned slabs of sleazy, guitar-driven goth rock that belied their age and experience. Peel loved them and followed the BBC1 session by placing the bands first single “L.A.Rain” at number 26 in his 1985 Festive 50, above songs by The Cure, The Smiths and The Sisters of Mercy.

2020 started strong with an appearance at the Porta Nigra Festival in Belgium and a headline at the famous Gibus Live in Paris, but then the comeback was put temporarily on hold due to the pandemic. At the end of 2021 the band released their long awaited BBC sessions recorded for John Peel and Janice Long, and closed the year out with an intimate club tour of the UK.

Into spring 2022 the band finally played again with The Mission to thousands of people in academy size venues across the UK. The positive reaction to The Rose was overwhelming, from both old and new fans, and the music press alike. Stay tuned for the next chapter.

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The Rose of Avalanche

Salvation - The Shining

Salvation

Cloudbusting can’t wait to share their love for the music of Kate Bush as they bring their new LOVE & ANGER TOUR live to the stage!

As the longest running and most universally applauded homage to the music of Kate Bush, Cloudbusting has been championed by BBC ONE as one of the most authentic tributes in the world. Their passion for Kate’s music has won over sceptical fans everywhere, challenging perceptions of what a tribute band can be and resulting in sell-out performances across the UK.

Exploring Kate’s unique repertoire, Cloudbusting take you on an extraordinary journey as they explore the themes of Love & Anger. Whether exhilarating or tormented, joyful or anguished, innocent, bitter or even taboo - one thing for sure is that it's never a simple path in Kate’s song book! The two-hour stage production will also feature all the hits you would expect to hear - Wuthering Heights, Hounds of Love, Running Up That Hill, Babooshka - all with breath-taking vocals and superb musicianship.

Many of Kate’s original collaborators from stage and studio have been inspired to join the band on stage, including bass player Del Palmer, drummer Preston Heyman and dancer Stewart Avon Arnold, all of whom performed with Kate on her legendary Tour of Life live shows back in 1979. The show is enhanced with stunning back-projection visuals which reflect the character and mood of the songs, making a Cloudbusting concert an event that no Kate Bush fan will want to miss!

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Cloudbusting: The Music of Kate Bush

Babooshka - 2018 Remaster

Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

Cloudbusting

The New Mastersounds have been delighting audiences with their infectious brand of funky soul-jazz since they formed in Leeds in 1999. For the first five years of the band’s career they were regulars at the Jazz Café in London, before they began to turn heads on the funk scene in the US, where guitarist/producer/bandleader Eddie Roberts now lives. For over a decade they have been a staple act of the late-night scene during New Orleans’ annual Jazz Fest. Always happy to hit the studio between tours, this veteran band now boasts a rich discography that includes thirteen original studio albums, four live albums, several compilations, and a remix album.

Though they have collaborated over the years with such musical luminaries as Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Corinne Bailey Rae, Art Neville, Bernard Purdie and Lou Donaldson, they are at their best on stage as a tightly-packed quartet – bass, drums, guitar and keyboards - firing off scorching grooves and feeding on the energy of the dancers in the front row.

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The New Mastersounds

The New Mastersounds - Yokacoka

"Kindred spirits to Reverend Peyton are John Lee Hooker and RL Burnside." - The Washington Post

Three time BMA nominee's The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band are "the greatest front-porch blues band in the world". They are led by Reverend Peyton, who most consider to be the premier finger picker playing today. He has earned a reputation as both a singularly compelling performer and a persuasive evangelist for the rootsy, country blues styles that captured his imagination early in life and inspired him and his band to make pilgrimages to Clarksdale, Mississippi to study under such blues masters as T-Model Ford, Robert Belfour and David “Honeyboy” Edwards. Their latest record Dance Songs For Hard Times went #1 on the Billboard, iTunes and Sirius XM Blues Charts and was produced by Grammy winner Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Stapleton). The record is critically acclaimed by Rolling Stone, Relix, Popmatters, Guitar World, American Songwriter, No Depression, Glide, Wide Open Country, Paste, American Blues Scene and many more!

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The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

“Utilising phat grooves and electronic scrapings to bring noise rock kicking and screaming into the volatile 2020s, Thoughtless Cruelty is snotty and abrasive, fuelled by impotent rage.”

JR Moores, The Quietus

“A kind of mad melding of Pissed Jeans and Lady Gaga.”

Dominic Haley, Loud and Quiet

“This Leeds band pairs brawny arrangements with furious, bug-eyed vocals.”

Bandcamp Daily

Thank formed in 2016 out of Leeds’ notorious DIY collective CHUNK, and over the next half-decade they gained acclaim for the EPs ‘Sexghost Hellscape’ and ‘Please’, toured in mainland Europe, and caught the attention of heavy hitters like Idles with their combination of anxious disco grooves and harsh noise freakouts.

The band’s debut full length ‘Thoughtless Cruelty’ was released via Box Records (Lower Slaughter, USA Nails, Psychic Graveyard) and Exploding In Sound (Pile, Big Ups, Krill) in February 2022. The album is a stark observation of human cruelty filtered through the band’s grim fascinations including long term nuclear warnings, CNN’s Turner Doomsday Video (opener 'From Heaven' is a partial reworking of the Latin verse from 'Nearer My God To Thee', the hymn performed in that video), and the business-as-usual liberal politics which has given way to the global rise of the far right.

The initial run of ‘Thoughtless Cruelty’ sold out almost immediately, in part due to the single ‘Dread’ being championed by Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 6 Music and John Kennedy on Radio X.

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Thank

Mother Said 

Static Caravan

Afrobeat legend Femi Kuti is an artist who seemingly never stops, bringing his dynamic and colourful shows and committed political messages to audiences across the world.

In 2021 he released the double album Legacy + on Partisan Records. This box set contains his latest album Stop The Hate together with the very first album For (e) ward from his eldest son, Made Kuti.

Stop The Hate radiates the unique afrobeat sound that Femi has forged throughout his long career, affirming his sharply political convictions. The song PaPaPa and this album received rave reviews from the most cutting edge and prestigious international media, and was nominated at the 2022 Grammy Awards.

It can sometimes be difficult to understand where he draws his energy as the countless fights for social justice he carries out are exhausting. Femi Kuti is a global citizen who has been a defender of good causes for decades - the recently broadcast concert from his The New Afrika Shrine was a brilliant highlight of this.

Femi is widely in demand for many collaborations, and has worked with Coldplay, the electro music producer Robert Hood, or the French hip-hop band IAM.

So join us as Femi and his troupe, The Positive Force bring their new show to the UK, promoting Africa at its best and promising spicy performances, full of surprises!

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Femi Kuti

EVEN AS WE SPEAK - are an exploding supernova of contradictions, lighting up the indie pop night sky, whilst raining down destructive particles and distorting space and time with their chaotic and remote brilliance.

FORMED – 1986 in post-punk apocalyptic inner-city Sydney – they refused to wear the eye makeup of their generation.

SUCCESS – 1987 their fizzing DIY record “Blue Suburban Skies/Bizarre Love Triangle” became the most copied 7 inch single of the twee pop genre spawning a veritable army of pale imitators (AKA - Bizarre Love Zombies).

LEGENDS – A beloved Sarah Records band, they carved a sparkling pathway through the twee-scape of the early 90’s with their pop roller-coaster ride Feral Pop Frenzy.

BLAH – Top 10 Indie charts, NME, Melody Maker, 3 Peel Sessions, BBC1 Radio – yep they are that good!

BROKE UP - 1993 because they all hated each other.

UNTIL – A strange and unexpected re-birth occurred - New York Pop Fest 2016, EP the Black Forest 2017, 2018 UK tour to sold out shows!

NEW ALBUM – “Adelphi” released July 2022 – it’s fucking awesome!!!!!!!

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Even As We Speak

Even as We Speak

The Luxembourg Signal

Wandering Summer

T.S.O.L. are an American punk band. T.S.O.L. is short for True Sounds of Liberty although they are rarely referred to by their full name. Although most commonly associated with the burgeoning West Coast hardcore punk movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s, T.S.O.L. have released music in the styles of both punk and hard rock. Formed in 1979 and hailing from Long Beach, California, T.S.O.L. developed from earlier bands Johnny Coathanger & the Abortions and Vicious Circle.

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T S O L

Flowers by the Door

T.S.O.L.

A ragged Welsh band indebted to both punk and indie rock, who first showed up on the scene in 1998, disappeared for a bit and then later reappeared. With influences ranging from classic British punk to noise-rock combined the energy and ethos of punk with varied dynamics and intelligent, black-humoured lyrics.

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Mclusky*

Mclusky - Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues

mclusky*

mclusky

Legendary bands Foreigner and Journey are giants of the AOR (Adult Orientated Rock) and Classic Rock genres, attracting huge audiences as live acts since forming in the 1970’s. The two bands have achieved massive commercial and critical success and both sold in excess of 80 million albums, with their supreme musical quality ensuring that they’ve never been victims of trends or passing fashions, and even their earliest hits are still being played on radio shows worldwide every day.

Sadly for those in the UK, their shows over here have been few and far between, and most fans of their music have not experienced the thrill of hearing it played live. Thankfully, however, the next best thing is here in the shape of the award-winning band A FOREIGNERS JOURNEY.

They have toured throughout the UK and Europe for the last 10 years, headlined a number of festivals and played to packed theatres and venues, safely establishing themselves as one of the most respected and known tribute shows around

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A Foreigners Journey

Mclusky\* were a band between 1999 and 2005, in which time they made a few friends and three albums. slow-forward 14 years and, thanks to the uncanny pull of nostalgia and gravity, they have made more friends but no more albums. originally persuaded to reform - like ham - to help save a local music venue and for other vaguely charitable reasons, mclusky\* is the band but with Damien Sayell of The St Pierre Snake Invasion (who incidentally have an album out this year) playing bass and singing and is loads better (technical term) than it used to be, nostalgia be twatted directly in the eye.

there is one quiet song, at the start, then the rest is just soup.

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The Dickies are a delightfully zany and irreverent comedic punk band from Los Angeles, California. The group first formed in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles in 1977. The original band members were: Leonard Graves Phillips (lead vocals), Stan Lee (guitar), Bob Davis (guitar/keyboards/saxophone), Bill Remar (bass), and Carlos Cabellero (drums). The Dickies are distinguished by their winningly campy and goofy sense of playful good humour that's a total radical departure from the often snotty and sarcastic humour of your average punk band. They hold the distinction of being the first California punk group to both appear on network television and be signed to a major record label.  
The band scored a Top 10 British radio hit in 1979 with their wacky rendition of the 70's Saturday morning cartoon TV series theme tune "Banana Splits (Tra La La Song)." Alas, the group has endured their fair share of hardships throughout the years: Bob Davis committed suicide after breaking up with his girlfriend in June, 1981 while replacement drummer Jonathan Melvoin died of a heroin overdose on July 12, 1996 in New York City. The group did the marvellously madcap theme songs for the movies "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" and "The Spirit of '76." The Dickies are still touring and performing on stage to this very day, although only Leonard Graves Phillips and Stan Lee remain from the original line-up.

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The Dickies

Killer Klowns

“Straight up, no one is having more fun than me when we’re up there!” beams DRAIN frontman Sammy Ciaramitaro, whose face is perpetually glued in a grin. For anyone that’s seen the Santa Cruz hardcore firebrands live, there’s no mistaking that fact. Drain isn’t just a good time as Sammy presides over the chaos of stagediving bodies and mic-grabbing frontline; it’s a party—and everyone is invited. (Dolphin shorts and boogie boards are optional but encouraged.) “The vibe of it is, enthusiastic, hectic,” says the vocalist. “Five people deep singing and stagediving, then kids going berserk behind that. It’s a great vibe and I think people pick up on that.”

That, in a nutshell is DRAIN. The quartet inject a serious dose of relatability—not to mention catchiness—into hardcore’s penchant for toughness and brutality on their Epitaph debut Living Proof. Ciaramitaro’s desperate, snotty howl rides roughshod over thrash-leaning riffage as rhythms bounce in a big way. If you’re picturing the Pacific Ocean waves that rise and fall along the coastal town, occasionally violently so, you’re not far off.

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