What a debut album!! A lot of people already celebrate the Pears’ debut album Go To Prison as the best record of the year. Well, I wouldn’t go that far, but it’s definitely a good hardcore album from the New Orleans based four-piece. There are rarely debut albums that cause as much attention as Go […]
So stoked!!! Do I need to say more? Yes? Ok. I think for every collector it’s great to get a special collectible item of a valued release. For me, one of the top 3 albums in 2013 was the Night Birds’ Born To Die In Suburbia. I like the fact that they only do black […]
The Stupid Today 7” is the latest addition to date to my set of Fat Store exclusives. So far it’s been the one with the most disappointing color. While the standard color release is on highlighter yellow vinyl, this one is an incredible feat of creativity as it is on non-highlighter yellow vinyl. The music […]
This just in, the latest release by Boysetsfire! This is a split 7” with Funeral For A Friend. Both bands cover one of the other’s song. The record is a co-release of End Hits Records in Europe and No Sleep Records in the USA. Both labels have released two standard color copies. But No Sleep […]
The Ramones are back! Or so they say. At least it sounds as if they are. After the first beats, it’s quite obvious which direction CJ’s Fat release is heading. Classic Ramones meets modern pop punk. On the B-side you can find a rendition of Black Flag’s “Rise Above”. The vinyl comes on translucent dark […]
After last year’s epic Flatliners record “Dead Language” I was more than stoked to get the first solo release by Chris Cresswell. That was followed by mild disappointment when I heard that I would be put out on One Week Records, Joey Cape’s digital only label. Luckily, Fat decided to put out the record on […]
Flexi Pack #1: Black, blue + yellow Flexi Pack #2: Green, red + white The selection of bands and songs is badass and the idea is pretty cool too: Two 7’’ packs each filled with three differently colored square-shaped flexi discs. As far as I can remember those were the first flexi discs Fat has […]
The Dirty Nil seems to be a more unusual band to put out a release on Fat. They sound more like grunge or garage musicians than the classic punk rock/modern pop-punk recipe that is usually part of the Fat roster. So far I haven’t really gotten into them. Although it might not exactly be my […]
I received another nice package from Fat Wreck Chords today. Firstly, there’s “Bygones” the highly anticipated follow-up EP to Get Dead’s debut full-length “Bad News”. Whilst Bygones may not surprise anybody, yet again Get Dead have managed to come up with great songs in their very own style. Their cover version of NUFAN’s “Premedicated Murder”, […]
