Shark? Gives Their Sound Life On Stage

I’m guessing Brooklyn’s Shark? hears the term “surf-punk” a lot, so I’m sorry for that. I haven’t read anything about them using the description, but it’s just the perfect genre-combination to capture what they play. The four-piece relies on consistent chugging (but interesting) bass and drums underneath a rhythm guitar wailing on power…

INTERVIEW: GETTING TO KNOW CHEATAHS

East London’s Cheatahs have gone from zero to sixty in a heartbeat. In the past year, they have put out a couple killer EP’s, linked up with Wichita Recordings, and are now releasing a new full-length, Extended Plays, on May 2nd. The quartet maintains a really clean brand of garage rock that strips away unnecessary doses of reverb and distortion…

Lollapalooza Announces Lineup

Chicago’s famous Lollapalooza festival announced their lineup today and to be quite honest, it’s pretty meh. The festival will take place August 2-4 in Grant Park. Not that it’s bad or anything, but it’s not much different than every other festival this summer and if you live in Chicago and have the cash, I don’t […]

Weekly News Roundup 3/24/13

Once again, our weekly news roundup, where we at Allston Pudding round up all the news from the week! Local Jawn- Boston’s DJ Knife released the third installment of his Strange Brew series. Dropkick Murphys‘ lead singer beat up a dumb skinhead doing the Nazi salute on stage. MMOSS released the track “Nothing Left” off […]