East Bay rock 'n' rollers Chargers are back, announcing a 5-song 12" to release on Pirates Press Records on Oct. 23. The new EP is titled Last Call.
While members also play in UK Subs, Rancid, and Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine, Charger is Motorhead-fuelled r 'n' r. The new EP also features guest spots from Lars Frederiksen (Rancid, The Old Firm Casuals) and Wayne Lozinak (Hatebreed).
The debut from Charger finds that gray area between punk and metal that’s hard to pigeonhole to a specific genre. You’ll see more than one Motorhead reference in this review, which is both a good place to start and a pretty good complement.Motorhead is really what comes to mind on a play-through of this ripper: just 7 songs over 19 … Read more
Rafa (Flores y Fuego) SPB: What are some of the best venues to play at in Mexico? Rafa: We are from Guadalajara. Here, the best venues for playing underground music is the “Foro Indepencia” and for bigger bands there is “C3”. Read more
Ben Coleman (Hunting Lions – vocals) SPB: You’ve played with many musicians in your career. In this band, whose songwriting process or stage mannerisms were the biggest adjustment for you to adapt to? Coleman: Between the spark of an idea and the realization of 2 or 3 minutes of music, … Read more
Dick Lucas (Subhumans UK) SPB: How involved were you in the box set project? Lucas: Most of my involvement was with going back through my old diaries to see if what I'd written when we were recording the albums made any sort of readable outline of what happened in the … Read more
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