The Sybians is a reggae project from Amsterdam. After their first single in 2025, they now come up with their debut full-length album, offering thirteen
Gothenburg troublemakers Raka Rør are a three-piece Oi! band, and its members Robin, Love, and Jocke have decided to cause us immeasurable pleasure by releasing the compilation album Värdighetens förkämpar (Defenders of Dignity). It’s a selection of 20 tracks covering everything the band recorded between 2019 and 2022, including a...
Bent Out Of Shape hail from Fryslân, a province in the north of the Netherlands. The band delivers ten melodic streetpunk tracks – nine originals and one cover of Major Conflict, a New York band from 1983. According to Discogs, the lineup includes members of Spirit 84, DSS, No Denial,...
Reo is a streetpunk band from Andalusia, and Con Dolor is their third entry in the discography. First came the 7″ Sobre Las Ruinas in 2022, followed by the LP La Malca Maldita in 2023. Con Dolor was released in 2024 through a collaboration of European labels Contra Records and...
Pena Maxima is quite an interesting phenomenon in today’s streetpunk world. The band from Miami, USA, formed in 2016, is made up of people with South American roots and is strongly tied to the theme of football. Judging by the photos, it’s also a pretty diverse crew – punks and...
The Buzzers are a crew from Vancouver, Canada, where young blood meets seasoned veterans of the Canadian and American Oi! / street rock scene. It’s no surprise that the band members have previously appeared in projects like Toy Tiger, The Enforcers, Ultra Sect, No Heart, Sydney Ducks, or Suede Razors...
Exili is a band from the city of Lleida, located in the western part of Catalonia. The album Un Orgul Pels Teus opens with „Els Segadors“, the Catalan national anthem, followed by eleven full-length tracks in the Oi! / street rock style — medium tempo, melodic guitar leads, and a...
I have to admit that the band Tear Up from Watford completely slipped under my radar before I came across this record. Repeat Offenders is already their third release — their debut Playground Politics came out in 2018, so the band definitely has some history behind them. Tear Up play...
A few years ago, I came across a split release from Kapø Blöd (Bordeaux) and King Cans (Montreal/Québec). What really stood out to me was King Cans‘ track „Not Dead Yet“ – an absolute anthem (check it out on YouTube, there’s a solid video for it too). Since then, I’d...
In the years right after 2000, I was really into the sound of bands that mixed Oi! and hardcore. At that time, Agnostic Front had just released Riot, Riot, Upstart (1999) and Another Voice (2004). In Europe, Discipline were in full swing, putting out Bulldog Style (1998), Nice Boys Finish...
Another interesting addition to the punk/Oi! catalog of the Mendeku Diskak label. This time it’s the Turkish band Reason Why and their debut on vinyl – not to be confused with the hardcore project of the same name from Paris. The Turkish scene isn’t particularly familiar to me, so I’m...
Toy Tiger is a band from Vancouver that labels itself as street rock. That was pretty much all I knew about this project when their new record Meow Sabotage from my favorite label, Street Rats Records, landed in my hands. The band’s name and the cat-themed artwork gave me no...
Claimed Choice are a French band from Lyon, and this marks the fourth entry in their discography. They debuted in 2022 with a self-titled LP, followed by a 7″ single and a split with Canada’s No Heart in 2023. Claimed Choice mix elements of Oi!, pub rock, and glam, all...