This week’s mixtape starts out with a killer new song by U.K. punk rocker Louise Distras! Up next is a punk band I was lucky enough to catch live that opened for Biters this week in Toledo called Frankie + The Studs from L.A. To end the show is a wild video by a garage rock band from Argentina called Kill West! Till next week rockers! Thanks for following and watching!
Louise Distras is making a lot of people around the world sit up and take notice of the songwriter being described as “the 21st century Joe Strummer who personifies punk rock spirit and renegade soul”. The twelve tracks of Dreams From The Factory Floor really show her ability to channel her passion into some damn fine songwriting. Having seen her live, I can tell you that the songs and her tendency to wield her guitar like a deadly weapon, makes you want to pay attention to what she’s saying. Because she has something to say, and it’s worth listening to.
Frankie & the Studs are a retro 70s glam rock band, fronted by 21-year old Frankie Clarke, daughter of Gilby Clarke (Guns ’n’ Roses, Kill for Thrills, Candy). With her leather jumpsuit and glitter Kohl eyes, Frankie at first glance brings to mind Suzi Quatro and the Runaways, and if you keep listening, you will hear Ramones and Bowie influences as well. Frankie’s songs are the kind of fist pumping glam rock that get the audience on their feet cheering, and their cover of Nick Gilder’s 1978 hit, “Hot Child in the City” shows they have listened to all the right records. Much like her dad, Frankie is a naturally charismatic performer, all attitude and stage presence. And not surprisingly considering her lineage, she shreds on guitar. The rest of the Studs consist of Ronnie Simmons on guitar, Johnny Martin on bass, and Matt Lucich on drums, all skilled players with incredible presence. This band is as fun to watch as they are to hear.
Kill West is a 5-piece rock outfit hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Formed in bandleader Franco Beceiro’s garage in late 2012, the band consists of Beceiro on vocals and guitar, Joel Menazzi on bass, Martin Valentini on guitar, and brothers Nicolas and Mario Miele on drums and keys. “Kill West drives right into the black hole of reverb, thick guitars, wah-wah pedals and draggy tempos that you might associate with 30 years ago, the time of the Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine.” – The New York Times
If your band is named Death By Unga Bunga, I think we can pretty much assume we’re in for a fun ride, and that’s certainly what we get on the Norwegian rock band’s fourth LP Pineapple Pizza. Now I know what you’re thinking — fourth LP! I would have remembered a name like Death By Unga Bunga! That’s true; this is actually the band’s first album to see a North America release and us, North American scum, are all the better for it. Pineapple Pizza is a fine introduction to the band’s retro-rock loving style — a storm of garage rock, psychedelia, and power pop.
Even though Playboy Manbaby is a Phoenix super-group featuring some of the most musically talented Phoenicians the Valley of the Sun has to offer, they have always been more of a live band than one for the studio. But Don’t Let it Be will change all that. Don’t get me wrong: Playboy Manbaby will always be one of the most electrifying live bands in the country, but with the release of their new LP, they have a record that can stand up to their live performances.
Michael Parrett 
Pizzatramp are a hardcore punk trio from Wales who have, in the last year, become one of the most popular acts in the DIY punk scene in the United Kingdom after only forming in 2014. Towards the end of 2016, the punks released their third album, ‘Blowing Chunks’ through DIY punk label TNSRecords, which received rave reviews from press and punk fans alike, having been nominated as one of the best punk albums of 2016 by several critics in their top 10 lists.
Sloan Peterson, the new project from Sydney, Australia-based songwriter Joe Jackson, unveiled her debut single “105“. The track is the first single released from Sloan Peterson’s forthcoming self-titled debut EP, which will be out July 13th via Mirror Records.
BOYTOY is made up of Saara Untracht-Oakner (vocals/guitar), Glenn Van Dyke (guitar) and Matthew Gregory a.k.a. Matty Beans (drums). Formed after an impromptu 2 a.m. jam session by Untracht-Oakner and Van Dyke, they describe their band as “the love child of three dinguses from the same stardust.” Their distinct sound derives from double guitars and lack of bass.
BRAD POT who, like most of history’s best rockin’ outfits, don’t rely on politics to rip, but get straight to the fucking POINT of radical rock’n’roll.
The Coathangers are a punk rock band from Atlanta. The band formed in 2006 as a joke. After playing a house show, they were asked to open for The Hiss on the strength of their performance. The name “Coathangers” refers to a method of self-induced abortion and was chosen for its irreverent vulgarity; all of the band’s members are pro-choice.
Clobber is a fast paced three-piece punk band from Redditch, Worcestershire, UK who say that some of their most influential bands are 
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