Suggestions
Suggestions
Street punk stays direct and close to the street: no-frills playing, working-class songs and choruses a crowd can shout back. In late-1970s Britain it was the populist punk that Sham 69 made prominent in 1978 and 1979, and the music that took the name Oi! around 1980, probably after the Cockney Rejects’ “Oi! Oi! Oi!”, had until then simply been called street punk. Street punk and Oi! still overlap, and street punk kept its own name as it travelled well beyond that scene.
Hudson Valley band Trouble Bound built “Step To The Line” from a riff that came the day after their 25th-anniversary show, and its working-class songs set Rancid and Social Distortion melody against Cock Sparrer singalongs. Boston’s Badterms, for years a two-man studio project, recorded half of their Oi!-laced punk rock’n’roll album “Nest of Vipers” with their live five-piece. The Casualties recut songs going back to their 1997 debut for “Until Death: Studio Sessions” and toured North America with Strung Out. Stoke-on-Trent’s Senseless, formed in 2000, opened for UK Subs, Sham 69 and Stiff Little Fingers early on, and St. Petersburg, Florida band Spanish Needles write about labour, inequality and union solidarity on “Sifting Through the Wreckage”.