Tag: punk

The Poor Luckies Deliver Tales of Getting Through Life’s Dull and Rough Patches on Ferocious Garage Punk Single “Time’s Not Your Friend”

The Poor Luckies, photo by Laura Acton

The Poor Luckies have been at it since 2008 when they formed in San Francisco. After a 2012 debut EP the band was on a bit of a hiatus, though not a breakup, while frrontman Danny Cuts focused on raising his son and finally in 2025 the band recorded its debut album Wrong Way which dropped on March 20, 2026. Lead single “Time’s Not Your Friend” is just one of the ten stories on the record and one that seems to tell an overarching theme for the band’s existence and music about striving through adversity and meeting it with some attitude and maybe sometimes just through sheer inertia. The line “Just keep on living, just keep on burning the candle” might sound quaint but sometimes that’s all you can do to get through to the times in life that don’t feel completely devoid of inspiration and like too much static is coming down on you. Musically it’s reminiscent of the kind of garage punk of the 90s like maybe The Fluid, New Bomb Turks and Murder City Devils—emotionally often rough around the edges but honest and imbued with a rebellious spirit and willingness to break with narrow conventions. The record itself has plenty of ACAB rhetoric that comes out of being on the delivery end of abuse for looking and being different and, well, not presenting like some middle class or rich person. It may sound like borderline unhinged garage rock from another era but doesn’t come off like it’s worshiping at the altar of another band and that makes a big difference. Listen to “Time’s Not Your Friend” on Spotify.

Welsh Electro-Punks teehin Dismantle the Least Inspiring Aspects of Music and Popular Culture on Raging Single “LARA SCOFFED”

teethin, photo courtesy the artists

The single “LARA SCOFFED” by Welsh electronic-post-punks teethin is refreshing in its subversion of any expectations one might have using genre tags to give potential listeners a touchstone. The scathing lyrics are simultaneously vulnerable and delivered with a righteous outrage at how the way the way one is “supposed” to operate as an artist in order to get attention for your music or even to get it heard and how that’s intertwined with soft power engines of oppression and capitalist psychological warfare against actual culture is engulfing and cathartic. The songwriting fuses rock sounds with electronic production methods including dub so that the song pulls you along its its heady melange of big beat rhythms, whatever Underworld was doing in the first half of the 90s and post-hardcore thorniness and a dusky and caustic sound that is pure punk spirit without fitting into some neat box as too much punk of the past 40 years has seemed to want to fit. It’s ferocious and exhilarating and calls to task some of the least inspiring aspects of music and popular culture. Listen to “LARA SCOFFED” on Spotify.