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Feeding their growing fanbase less than a year after their sophomore album, Keep on Truckin’, the American-punk-core of Surfbort has released a new single. The next installment of their world domination, “Never Gonna Be What You Want Me to Be,” is a focused performance with a head-down directive opposite to the loud, deliberately messy, and wild record of last year.

RECKLING Shares the second single off their upcoming EP Human Nature + a photo-diary from their most recent tour.

Two years after the unceremonious fall of Burger Records, the Oakland-based punk festival formerly known as Burger Boogaloo returned to Mosswood Park under a new team as Mosswood Meltdown.

Trailing their 2020 debut album Top Earner, Los Angeles based alt-emo-rockers Mad About The Boy have just shared a new single - ‘Power In The Fall’ - we fucking love it.

With a sound that makes it easy to imagine if a Whip-Smart era Liz Phair was a snarling punk in 1970s Los Angeles, “In My Hair” is an anthem for every obsessive overthinker and indecisive decision-maker. An earworm of an offering from Reckling’s upcoming EP Human Nature, out August 12th, we’re already obsessed and hungry for more.

2010s indie heads and riot grrrls alike, rejoice! Seth Bogart’s queer punk-meets-doowop quintet is back in full force when we need them the most. Selling out The Regent for the second time in their career, Bogart and friends celebrated the reunion with high-energy performances and wild antics that John Waters himself would approve of.

Last night Mississippi garage-rockers Bass Drum Of Death sold out Alex’s Bar in Long Beach, California with support from a couple of legends including Reckling, Death Lens, and Floats. We made it out, got sweaty, and took some photos.

Tuesday night we made it out to The Mayan in Los Angeles, CA to catch The Kills for their nearly sold-out two day header. Night one was supported by LA Witch and night two by Slaughterhouse

Friday night Big Fun returned to LA for the first time since the pandemic with performances by Dove Armitage, Shock Therapy, and Rinse & Repeat. It was all ages, packed, and made us remember why we love this city so much.

It’s fair to say that Niis is one of the most punk-root bands in the current Los Angeles stratosphere that increasingly expands upon the repertoires of old-school punk. Not only sonically, but thematically, too.