#smartpunk

[archangel-online]

Seeing everyone get their soul punk vinyls and mine has said "label created" since December 23rd

[punkrockmixtapes]

Baggage - Horseshoe (Official Music Video)

[fishbone-records]

The Movielife - Cities In Search Of A Heart 51/475 Easter Yellow (Smartpunk Exclusive) Rise Records

“I’m not coming home for Christmas. I’m coming home for you. Stack your troubles on my shoulders and take a deep breath. Don’t choke on your freedom. Those cold lonely mornings aren’t yours anymore. I think I can already see the fire in your eyes.”

[cobrastarsludge]

SMARTPUNK's new Warped Tour compilation features Cobra Starship - Bring It (Demo). Wonder if this is the same version floating around or a different one. You can get the cd for $5 at the shows or the SMARTPUNK webstore.

Full tracklist:

Disc 1  1. Less Than Jake - All My Best Friends Are Metalheads '23 2. The Wonder Years - Goddamnittall 3. Not Enough Space - Primitive 4. Koyo - A Mile A Minute 5. Honey Revenge - Airhead 6. Keep Flying - Mistakes 7. Fame On Fire - Nightmare (The Devil) 8. A Loss For Words - Weird Motivation 9. Origami Angel - Dirty Mirror Selfie 10. Kerosene Heights - Waste My Time  11. Kami Kehoe, Colorblind, Ekoh - Safehouse 12. The World Alive, Bad Omens - One Of Us 13. Arrows In Action - Cheekbones 14. Drug Church - Demolition Man  15. Gideon - More Power, More Pain 16. Ava Maybee - Gold Star Sticker 17. Reconciler - Stockholm Syndrome  18. Microwave - Bored of Being Sad 19. Sweet Pill - Chewed Up 20. The Home Team - Loud 21. Carpool - Can We Just Get High? 22. Rain City Drive, Dayseeker - Medicate Me 23. Four Year Strong - Uncooked 24. Sace6 - Devotion 25. LØLØ - Hot Girls in Hell

Disc 2  1. Cartel - Honestly (2025) 2. The Paradox - Do Me Like That 3. State Champs - Too Late To Say 4. Destroy Boys - Shadow (I'm Breaking Down)  5. Bryce Vine - Yea Yea Yea 6. Anberlin - High Stakes 7. Slaughterhouse - DNA 8. Debt Neglector - Apocalypse Soon  9. Cliffdiver - Dayz Gone 10. Lil Lotus - She's A Vampire 11. Cobra Starship - Bring It (Demo) 12. If Not For Me - Feel Me Now  13. Knuckle Puck - Nice To Know Ya 14. Gully Boys - Love Me 2  15. Chandler Leighton - Get You Going 16. Somerset Thrower - Motor City 17. TX2 - Hostage (They Will Not Erase Us) 18. Hail The Sun - Maladapted 19. Point North - World vs Peace 20. Wounded Touch - Shield Of White Roses 21. Fever 333 - New West Order 22. The Dreaded Laramie - The Gettier Problem 23. Sainthood Reps - Blue Nothing 24. Goldfinger - Untouchable (ft. Iann Dior) 25. We The Kings - Are You Here

[recoftheday]

The Chariot • Long Live • 2010 Good Fight Music • 4th press released in 2016 on Yellow Vinyl • Smartpunk exclusive • Limited to 200 copies. . . . . . #thechariot #longlive #goodfightmusic #smartpunk #exclusive #Vinyl #Vinylcollector #vinylcollection #Vinyladdict #vinyllovers #vinylmaniac #recordoftheday #albumoftheday #instavinyl #vinyligclub #vinyljunkie #vinyloftheday #vinylporn #vinylrecords #recordscollection #vinylcollective #vinylcollectionpost #vinylcommunity #vinylphotography #vinylgram #vinyllove #coloredvinylclub #coloredvinylart #theartofcoloredvinyl . . . . . @thechariotjams @goodfightmusic @smartpunkrecords @smartpunkshop @thejoshscogin @st33vis @jonterrey @jonathankindler @davidforlife @atlbrianhall @forefathersgroup @leviathaen (presso Milan, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLhFartint/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dustedmagazine]

Stud Count — S/T (Smartpunk)

Philadelphia’s Stud Count come on like tuff punks, but at heart, the band may yearn to craft tuneful pop songs. On this self-titled debut LP, you can hear Stud Count working through some of the themes and gestures that have informed successful pop-punk acts like Pup or fellow Philadelphians Modern Baseball: big songs about bigger feelings, with intimations of teenage unhappiness (even trauma) at metaphorical arm’s length; flailing or failed attempts at romance are narrated with more immediate dramatics. All of those bummer sentiments get articulated alongside major chords and melodic structures with plenty of hooks and slick guitar lines. And Stud Count holds a couple of ace cards in Norelle Green’s pipes and presence. She’s a born frontwoman (person?), and she’s figuring out how to move through her intonations and vocal affects with increasing assurance. “Through my Window” is among the most emphatic examples of those dulcet ambitions. She’s breathy-confessional, bouncy-urgent, icy-indifferent, sometimes all in the same verse — she’s not Debbie Harry yet, but she’s working on it.

Like Blondie in late 1977, Stud Count can still crack wise and play dirty (and this reviewer prefers it when they do). “The Way I Walk” and “That’s How (I Get It)” both clock in way under two minutes and capture Philly’s grit and pace. In the refrain to “The Way I Walk,” Green shouts, “Dirt! Dirt! Gimme the dirt! / Put me to work!” She just about transforms her subjection to the city’s unforgiving demands into assertions of her own power, and it’s exciting to hear. She doesn’t have the same range in this declamatory style; like Eve Libertine or more recently Jackie from Material Support, Green compromises her vocal modulations in the shorter, punchier songs for force and legibility, so you can hear the words — and not everyone can sing like Penelope Houston. It’s also the case that lead guitarist Max D’ambra can’t resist including some glib soloing. Even when Stud Count is playing fast and hard, the band wants to demonstrate its glossy chops. 

They may be at their best when they attempt to synthesize the record’s dominant modes, exploring the challenging space in which pop’s pleasures effortlessly emerge from punk’s menacing slouch. That’s a hard trick to pull off. The Ramones were past masters of the form, but they far more frequently expressed poppy delight and punky venom in separate statements; seamlessly integrated songs like “Beat on the Brat” and “You’re Gonna Kill that Girl” are transporting experiences, precisely because of their rarity. Stud Count approaches that sort of gloriously subverted anti-hit tune with “Pleasure Center.” The hard stuff and the shamelessly sugary occur in rapidly rotating sections of the song, but that seems like a calculated move, expressing shifting “pain” and “pleasure,” and a lover whose perfect fusion of those two feelings remains a mystery. The song is smartly organized and delivered with pitch-perfect intensity. Stud Count may be more drawn toward pop punk’s sensibility, but they can punch and snarl, too. It’s pretty great when they land a clean shot; when you’re face down in the dirt (gimme it), you remember that it has its own peculiar sweetness. 

Jonathan Shaw

[soundinthesignals]

Check out our interview with Jonathon Fraser of @northboundfl where we discussed writing and recording new song, “Stress Ball”, lyrical inspiration, releasing it on a 4 way split record, plans for the remainder of the year, and more @ soundinthesignals.com #northbound #smartpunk #emo #punk #alternative #soundinthesignals #stressball #vinyl #keepflying @smartpunkrecords @keepflyingband https://www.instagram.com/p/CT2RP9hp7uF/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sightsoundmusic]

So What Festival Announces 2019 Line-Up

The full line-up for the yearly metal festival So What has been announced. The fest takes place on April 27th & 28th at the White Oak Music Hall in Houston, TX. Buy tickets below and check out the line-up.

https://wl.seetickets.us/event/So-What-Music-Fest/377033?afflky=WhiteOakMusicHall