Part bittersweet romance, part darkly political triumph - the songs ultimately form a long-distance love letter, one that laments an increasingly privatized culture in danger of going the way of the extinct Irish giant deer.
In 2005 American Hi-Fi released Hearts On Parade, which was the only album to feature Jason Sutter on drums. In typical pop-punk style, nearly every song is about girls: lust, crushes and everything in between falling in and out of love.
Formed in 1976 in Brixton, This Heat were born into a music scene in rapid flux, first thanks to the punk explosion and then via new wave and it's myriad offshoots into pop, rock and art-rock.
Carambolage never set out to be a "girl band" but they were one of the first German new wave bands whose members were all female. The punk alliance emerged organically, friends united by a common interest in musical experimentation.
The Big Boys mixed furious hardcore with loose-limbed funk and tight pop structures, all the while penning lyrics that struck a blend between punk ideology, angsty alienation and clever humor.
The wiggy wanderings of Oog Bogo wind up on the same island of lost joys all at once, manufacturing a virtual jukebox of singles and side flips that won’t unplug, and just keeps reeling and raging on instead.
Digitally remastered collection of rare studio recordings from punk icons Iggy Pop and The Stooges recorded in the same year the band released their seminal album Raw Power!
