Since the release of their heartbreaking album Every Last Time I’ve been a big fan of Gameface. Last year they released their comeback album Now Is What Matters Now after an 11-year-long hiatus (if you can speak of a hiatus at all). They also released two songs of that album on 7’’. The first one […]
2014 was a great year for punk records. A lot of “big” releases saw the light of day. So it was especially hard to pick my ten favorite records this year, but here they are in reverse order:
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So here it is, another reincarnation of The Decline. The big one. Yes, THE BIG ONE. Fat announced the 15th anniversary edition for this release and people got stoked. Fat made more waves than an ocean cruiser with 211 angry blue mohawked water skiers in tow. Get ready! Be amazed! etc… Oh my, could the […]
Take a big ticket punk rock name, throw a thoroughly rehearsed pop punk formula in for good measure and stick the whole thing on the most buzzing punk label in San Francisco! And what do you get? Well, it is not a masterpiece by any count, yet the album meets the expectations after the release […]
It’s that time of year again!!! This is the fourth incarnation of the Fat Music for Fest People series, especially compiled for the FEST in Florida. Most of the songs have already been released elsewhere, and the ones that haven’t will most likely appear on future FAT releases such as Bad Cop/Bad Cop or Western […]
To be honest, the speed at which the Utters release new material is breath-taking. I often wonder how they manage to put out decent albums with so little time in between as yet gain, Fistful Of Hollow is a solid album. Maybe not the best they have ever released, but solid. There are even some […]
Yesterday I got one of best packages in a long time. Lagwagon’s new record in all its beauty comprising of five different variants. The standard black version, the black deluxe version, the bee-striped deluxe version, a white w/ blue haze deluxe version, and the bundle version including a slipmat, a poster, a DVD, a T-shirt […]
What a disastrous release for collectors! Not only that after pre-ordering months before the release date, one of the colors wasn’t available at all, but also the sheer number of versions that exist. As usual Epitaph has a US and a Euro pressing for that record. Every day new “exclusive” versions sold by some merch […]
Finally got the Fat store exclusive version of the latest Gimmes release. Only 100 of these are floating around with a silver A-side and a clear red B-side which makes for an awesome swirl mix. And just as I write this entry, I got the pink w/ magenta swirl version too. This one was a […]
Thank God, finally this classic WIZO record got a repress and is now available again on vinyl. The vinyl itself is green marbled and looks really great. Usually Hulk Räckorz presses 1,000 copies of each rlease, but this hasn’t yet been confirmed. Despite UUaarrgh! being their most famous record, I’ve always thought that the Herrenhandtasche […]
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 […]
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”, […]
After last year’s fine vinyl release of the first Implants album called From Chaos To Order, El Hefe’s up and coming label Cyber Tracks killed it again this year with their second vinyl release. This time it’s the album Bruises of Chicago based band Counterpunch. Just moments into the first chords of the opening track […]
