The ‘Europeskate Music’ Category:
Band check-out : Sirhan Sirhan
January 11th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Sirhan Sirhan are a three man band out of San Diego, California sporting a mixture of screamo vocals, punk and metal riffs and basically quic and dirty lyrics. It definitely is not music for those of you out there hoping to snap your fingers to a beat or something silly like that (how did I come up with that sentence??).
Basically what these guys are up to is noise rock and just last year they came out with their debut album with 11 tracks entitled “Blood” which is in my opinion and eye and ear opener – something to listen to and different than most of the generic pop/punk/metal bands sprouting out of the ground everyday. Oh, and by the way a little history lesson for all of us: Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was the guy convicted for assassinating Robert Kennedy, thus changing history itself in the USA massively – are they trying to tell us something? Get the record/CD, it’s more than worth it!
- Sirhan Sirhan band website
- Sirhan Sirhan on MySpace.com
Europeskate Music Choices – January 2nd 2009
January 2nd, 2009 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
Finally got back to listening into five bands and putting them together for you on the site. 2009 is looking good already music-wise and I’m looking forward to integrating more and more bands, reviews and interviews on the site – music is and always will be a part of skateboarding. Enjoy the latest bands (Gold Kids, Sinking Ships, The Welch Boys, Architects, The Vaders) and I’ll be back with more real soon…
The Vaders
The Vaders – MySpace Site
Record Label: Horror Business Records
Band members:
- Manuel Püschel: Bass/Voc
- Peter Lehnert: Guitar/Voc
- Johannes Rolf: Guitar
- Daniel Lammers: Drums
Architects
Architects – Band Site
Architects – MySpace site
Band members:
- Sam: Vocals
- Ali: Bass
- Dan: Drums
- Tom: Guitar
- Tim: Guitar
Sinking Ships
Band members:
- broken up or not broken up? you decide! Great music though!
The Welch Boys – Drinkin Angry
The Welch Boys
Record Label: Sailor’s Grave Records
Band members:
- Vocals: Ed Lalli
- Guitar: T.J. Welch
- Guitar: P.J. Dionne
- Bass: Mark Powers
- Drums: Steve Maffeo
Gold Kids – The Sound of Breaking Up
Gold Kids – band website
Gold Kids – MySpace site
Record Label: Thirty Days Of Night
Band members:
- Andre’ Suergiu: vocal
- Nicola Tinti: guitar
- Davide Ragazzo: guitar
- Mirko Pistidda: bass
- Paolo Schirru: drums
New video from These Arms Are Snakes
December 14th, 2008 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
One of my favorite bands at the moment is “These Arms Are Snakes” with their different approach to arranging new music styles and keeping it rough. Here’s their latest video production of the song “Red Line Season”. More coming soon about this band as the entire record is something one has to listen to a few times ti appreciate!
Europeskate Music Choices – October 21st 2008
October 21st, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Back again with 5 more bands for you all to check out for yourselves. Four out of five bands will be playing in Hamburg, Germany this week so I plan to watch the Git Some and The Despised this coming Thursday, October 23rd with some friends and enjoy a night out…I’m quite sure many of you will like these records, especially those of you looking or more depth in your musical choice, try out Don Caballero…they are mad!
Git Some – Cosmic Rock
Git Some – Band Site
Git Some – MySpace Site
Record Label: 1-2-3-4 Go! Records
Band members:
- Mr. Andrew Lindstrom
- Neil M. Keener
- Lucious Fairchild
- Chub Fresh
The Despised
The Despised – Band Site
The Despised – MySpace site
Band members:
- Rotknee- Vocals and Beer Tossing
- Punk Rock Dave – Bass, Vocals and Crowd Harrassment
- Matt – Lead Guitars and Sarcasm
- Insane Shayne – Drums, Webmaster and Roadie
Die Young – THROUGH THE VALLEYS IN BETWEEN
Die Young – MySpace site
Record Label: Interscope Records
Band members:
- The Rev. White Devil – gospels of heresy, five finger discounts
- Rynearson – beatmaster, grunts, nosepicks
- Jefe – faster than loss prevention, power chords, southern accent
- Kayhan – man of mystery, bass, ADHD
Unfallen Heros – Through the rubble and the ruins
Unfallen Heros – MySpace site
Record Label: Horns Up Records
Band members:
- Chris – Vocals
- Brodie – Guitar
- Adam – Bass
- James – Guitar
- Erick- Drums
Don Caballero – Punkgasm
Don Caballero – band website
Don Caballero – MySpace site
Record Label: Relapse Records
Band members:
- Damon Che – percusion
- Gene Doyle – guitar
- Jason Jouver – bass
Vans Music Nights in 5 European countries
October 17th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Vans keeps moving and trying to find new chances of getting to the people. The idea with working with bands is not new but I always love the chance to go to a concert and listen to some new bands.
The Vans “Off The Wall” Music Night will be taking place November 1st, 2008 in five different countries and the first 30 people through the door get a free pair of Vans plus the chance to win the limited edition Vans Fender guitar. Sounds good to me – have fun, listen to bands and possible get some free gear, not bad.
Here are the times and spots for the gigs:
17:00 Faversham – Leeds, UK
18:00 La Maroquinerie - Paris, France
20:00 Backstage – München, Bayern
20:00 Tube – Modena, Italy
22:00 Sala KGB - Barcelona, Spain
- Check out the Vans Music Night MySpace page for more info…
Rise Against with new album “Appeal To Reason”
October 15th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Rise Against puts their name back into the headlines with their next full length album entitled “”Appeal To Reason”. I listened to the album a few times yesterday and well, yeah, it sounds like Rise Against, there are a few slightly new and interesting parts but altogether it’s pretty much the same direction as the former release. And nothing against that – surely recommendable if you know the band, like this type of music and if you can, make sure you see them live as the shows are quite intense.
But hold your horses – they will be touring Europe first starting February 3rd, 2009 in Vienna, Austria and then travel to Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Ireland and a lot of shows in the UK (London March 6th, 2009).
- Rise Against website
- Rise against on MySpace
Aggrolites back on tour in Europe
October 14th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Word up to the guys over at Caught In The Crossfire for this good news about the Aggrolites heading to Europe on tour already this November 2008!
You can listen to this great band and read the latest happenings about the Aggrolites here.
And here are the European tour dates…right now they are touring the northeast of the US and some shows in Canada before they have a few of days to head over to Europe!
November 4th 2008 – Leeds Cockpit UK
November 5th 2008 – Nottingham Rescue Rooms UK
November 6th 2008 – Manchester Academy UK
November 7th 2008 – Oxford Academy UK
November 8th 2008 – London Islington Academy UK
November 9th 2008 – Brighton Concorde 2 UK
November 11th 2008 – Birmingham Academy UK (+RANCID)
November 12th 2008 – Newcastle Academy UK
November 13th 2008 – Brussels AB Box BE (+THE SKATALITES)
November 14th 2008 – Groningen Vera NL
November 15th 2008 – Amsterdam Melkweg NL
November 16th 2008 – Eindhoven Effenaar F NL
November 18th 2008 – Paris Trabendo (+ TWO TONE CLUB)
November 19th 2008 – Münster Gleis 22 DE
November 20th 2008 – Stuttgart Zwoelf Zehn DE
November 21st 2008 – Geneva L’Usine CH
November 22nd 2008 – Winterthur Gaswerk CH
November 23rd 2008 – Bologna Me que meo IT (+ MR T-BONE)
November 24th 2008 – Milano Zoe Club IT
November 25th 2008 – Ljubljana Gala Hala SI
November 26th 2008 – Bratislava Randal Club SK
November 27th 2008 – Vienna Arena A
November 28th 2008 – Moscow Club Ikra RU
Crime In Stereo releases never published songs
October 12th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
I’ve been following Crime In Stereo from day one just about and I’ve always enjoyed their refreshing sound which mixes many musical elements but keeps the punk rock aggression in their sound. The latest record release “Selective Wreckage” has been available since September 30th, 2008 and watch out for them touring ther US and England with hopefully more dates following soon!
- Crime In Stereo MySpace page
Here’s what their record label “Bridge Nine” has to say about Crime in Strereo:
Crime In Stereo’s 2007 genre-defying album Crime In Stereo Is Dead was a huge step forward from 2006’s punk outburst The Troubled Stateside. Selective Wreckage isn’t so much of a b-sides collection as it is a collection of unreleased songs that document the band’s evolution from the 2005 recording sessions for Stateside and 2007’s Is Dead. Featuring the often rumored, but never released split EP with Capital, and songs from many recording session, this is a 10 song statement to Crime In Stereo’s talent and diversity and only begs the question-what will come when the band releases a new album in 2009.
Dennys Restaurant Rockstars Menu
September 16th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
You have to keep the marketing machinery going to attract people to your shop, restaurant, products etc. to keep the business going. Rock bands have huge followings and kids like to follow what they get up to so how about this:
Dennys restaurant invited Taking Back Sunday, The All-American Rejects, the Plain White T’s and the Eagles of Death Metal to take over their kitchen to create a late night meal. Now you can pig out from 10 in the evening til 5 in the morning and think you are being all rock n roll. Hmmm, not too sure about this but I di have to admit: every time I’m in the States I stop by Denny’s.
- Find out what they are cooking at Denny’s Allnighter Rockstar Menu
Featured Band on Europeskate: MJ13
September 3rd, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Coming home after a pretty strange day at work and some not-too-cool things happening, I wanted nothing more then to listen to some loud music which in some way expressed my…frustration I guess is the word I am looking for right now. Yeah, something to let go off that ever so slightly pissed off feeling that is creeping through my mind right now.
Nothing better then checking out some music websites and I came across a quite different and expressive sounding band going by the name MJ13. Made up of three guys (Andres Anguita, Anthony Johns and Felix the Rat) out of East London, the band mixes both slow and fast beats which made me tense ,yet attracted my attention to listen to more with raw guitars and a quite garage-like sound – no clean mixing going on here but it’s all very listenable.
Confused? Me too I guess. What I’m trying to say basically is that it’s catchy, dark, upbeat, philosophic and punk all mixed together. Okay, maybe you should just listen to it…my favorite song is “A Pocket Sex Poppy Like You” – get what I mean? They are that little bit different which makes them good.
Check their websites which all have a lot of their songs for listening…
August 27, 2010: Ricardo Batista
August 22, 2010: Jonas Wedelstädt
August 21, 2010: bill Danforth
