Homewreckers

Downtown Boys streaming two songs from debut LP, touring

Sax-driven political punk party Downtown Boys signed to Don Giovanni last year, and since announced that the label will put out their debut album, Full Communisim, on Ma…

Permanent Ruin released an EP, touring before Smash It Dead Fest (dates, stream & lineup)

California has a long history of deranged-sounding punk rock, and San Jose’s Permanent Ruin uphold that tradition admirably. Their instrumental attack translates as undisciplined at first, but theirs is a studied messiness that benefits from stronger production values than most such bands tend to have; the vocals, by contrast, convincingly fly way off the handle…

Punk Island 2013 happening in Staten Island (initial lineup)

Make Music New York’s Punk Island is back for a sixth year! From 11am until 10pm on June 22nd, hear more than 90 bands from every corner of the punk scene performing for 11 hours on seven stages, all curated by ABC No Rio’s punk/hardcore collective…

Cake Shop shut down before forgetters could play

The Homewreckers @ Cake Shop (pre-bust) – 1/8/2010 (by Shawn Scallen) Forgetters were scheduled to play a late show at Cake Shop on Saturday night, but the cops shut down the venue for being over capacity before they went on…