by rudyards | June 28th, 2014
The Hormones (Austin, TX)
https://www.reverbnation.com/timnapalm
Return of classic ’90s Austin punk band The Hormones! Tim “Napalm” Stegall, 3 new guys, same 3 chords!
“…a twin-barrel shot of old-school zoom-punk, like Fear mudwrestling The Heartbreakers.”
David Fricke - Rolling Stone
“When writer/rocker Tim “Napalm” Stegall returned to town in 2012, it wasn’t just to resume his duties as a Chron gadfly. He also reactivated the Hormones, Austin’s burning punk outfit from 1993 to 1998. Leading a new gathering of misfits, Stegall preps aural fireworks like the classic “Sell Out Young” for the quartet’s first local show in 15 years….”
Michael Toland - The Austin Chronicle
“…the Hormones’ output stacks up quite nicely against that of their local punk preservationist contemporaries, and the key factor is the budding songwriting skill of singer/guitarist Tim Stegall. Songs like “Sell Out Young” and “No Fun in the Modern World” scream with obvious pop constructions, but differ in Stegall’s sneering, Johnny Rotten-by-way-of-South-Texas approach to singing and his uncanny knack for crafting guitar solos that don’t smother the song, not to mention requisite concern for melody from the band as a whole.”
Greg Beets - The Austin Chronicle
The Guillotines (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Guillotines/392228790871021
The Guillotines were founded by Robert Conn on guitar (The Pagans, The Defnics, The Plague, AK-47′s) and co-founder and wife Jewels (Chelsea Hotel) on bass. Since the band’s inception, their only goal was to play the same loud, fast, and furious punk rock ‘n’ roll they helped create during the original punk movement in the 70′s. The band is rounded with Marc Munroe (The Hot Things) on drums and Pablo Ono (Electric Frankenstein, Texas Terri Bomb, The Hot Things, BlackNovas, Die Cobra) on guitar. Their music is pure and unapologetic and their live shows are an aural assault on your senses. Want to more? Just ask or go to a show!
Poor Dumb Bastards (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Poor-Dumb-Bastards/126350582202
PDB was formed in March 1991 by long time hetero life partners and musical collaborators, Mike Porterfield and Byron Dean. The initial interest was to find a means to get into Emo’s for free, later they discovered Emo’s was always free. Drawing on their collective influences and experiences from some of their earlier work, bands like Cretinoid, Plutonium Flatheads and the Byron Weird Group, Mike and Byron set out create a genre all their own, hence “Texas Drunk Rock” was born. Add the non bass playing talents of Steve Scholtes and the competent, metronomic drumming of Chi Chi Macoola, and PDB were able to carve their initials on the bathroom door of the Texas music scene. Through the many years and many lineup changes, but these Ill-minded sewer rockers have stayed true to their founding principals. POWER, PERFORMANCE, PERVERSION
Velostacks (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/Velostacks
The Velostacks: Motorcycle Leather Rock & Roll Mother Fuckers! Featuring the High Octane Sonic Thunder Garage Attack.
Curtis DeGidio: Guitar, Vocals (Chrome Kickers, Chelsea Hotel)
Arthur Hays: Drums (The Next, The Mystery Dates, The Hickoids)
J.R. Delgado: Bass (The Party Owls, Sugar Shack)
Donnie Stokes: Vocals (URH)
Rich Crishock: Guitar, Vocals (Texas Mod Crushers, Johnny Rioux and The 713)
