Album Review: Electric Ray and The Shockers’ California Torpedo

Proving the universality of music, Austrian band Electric Ray and The Shockers has released a slice of punky surf rock that sounds like it was hewn from San Diego’s Sunset Cliffs.  California Torpedo is funky and irreverent enough to stand out in a familiar genre.  Check out their video for “T.R.O.U.B.L.E.”: If the balloon-bathroom-acid-trip doesn’t sell… Continue reading Album Review: Electric Ray and The Shockers’ California Torpedo

Show Review: 5 Bands for $5, 3/5/2016

When it’s a Posidemic Ntertainment event, you can expect a well-organized, fun, metal good time and that’s exactly what we got on March 5 at Cook’s Café in Naugatuck, CT.  Jesse James and his wireless microphone kept the show on schedule and enthusiasm high. Oxblood Forge of Whitman, Massachusetts started the show off right with… Continue reading Show Review: 5 Bands for $5, 3/5/2016

Album Review: Boy From the Crowd’s Where Bees Come To Die — Take Two

East London rock duo Boy From the Crowd are no strangers to Alternative Control.  Reviewed by Jade Siren earlier this year, we’re giving the band a second listen now that their EP Where Bees Come to Die has officially been released. The five-track offering mixes punk, rock, and blues influences.  There are two versions of “All I Need”… Continue reading Album Review: Boy From the Crowd’s Where Bees Come To Die — Take Two

Album Review: Boy From the Crowd’s Where the Bees Come to Die

A London band Boy From the Crowd has released their new EP album called Where the Bees Come to Die. This duo is a good, punk mesh of Blues and Rock and Roll. It is rather admirable when a duo creates such strong sounds. With Vinny Piana’s gravelly voice and transitioning blues to rock guitar… Continue reading Album Review: Boy From the Crowd’s Where the Bees Come to Die

Don’t Sell Yourself Short: An Interview with One-Eyed Doll, 10/4/15

by Jim Clegg Austin metal/punk duo One-Eyed Doll is in the middle of a tour supporting their new release Witches, a concept album based on the hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials.  Singer and guitarist Kimberly Freeman (who’s been featured as Revolver Magazine’s Hottest Chick in Hard Rock in 2011 and 2012) and drummer/producer Jason “Junior”… Continue reading Don’t Sell Yourself Short: An Interview with One-Eyed Doll, 10/4/15

Burning In The Summer Heat: A Preview of the 2015 CT Summer Punk Fest

By Matt Mullarkey It’s that time of the year again in New England. Days where the temps hover between the 80s and 90s, the humidity sticks to your skin like napalm, and your electric bill is through the roof from cranking the AC day and night. So what better way to spend one of those… Continue reading Burning In The Summer Heat: A Preview of the 2015 CT Summer Punk Fest

Album Review: Vile Display of Humanity (Self-Titled)

Seattle-by-way-of-Chicago punks Vile Display of Humanity released their self-titled debut album this May, unleashing a twenty-song tribute to the ideals of brotherhood and social justice.  The whole thing was recorded on lead guitarist Dave Foster’s laptop, and honestly the production quality is better than you’d imagine for “punk band’s DIY recording” — a little vocal-heavy… Continue reading Album Review: Vile Display of Humanity (Self-Titled)