As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I absolutely, positively had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these.
Tag: The Owen Guns
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New Albums This Month: May 2025
Tracks are nice and everything, but albums are where it’s at. These are all the long-players released in April that I’ve caught so far by Australian emerging, independent, and DIY artists.
“Punk in its rawest form is the perfect vehicle for outrage and The Owen Guns distil a crystal-clear message into sixty-two seconds of roaring fury directed at anyone who dares disagree. It’s not rocket science – but it doesn’t need to be 🏳️⚧️”
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The Owen Guns @ Frankie’s, 4th Sep
“The Owen Guns’ manic, boiling set may be designed to offend, but it has this strange effect of making you like them more and more. Every song is about something they hate with the power of a bazillion exploding stars – y’know, rapists, racists, politicians, nazis, punker-than-thou hipsters in Minor Threat shirts, the usual. They […]
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The Owen Guns @ Frankie’s, 16th May
“The joy of punk isn’t in the anger, it’s in the joy – The Owen Guns are joyously, giddily, hilariously angry at pretty much everything, and it’s a bloody pleasure to behold. The sort of brutal fun you don’t realise you’ve had until you wake up in the emergency room, laughing like a goon.” Facebook […]