Detroit isnt usually known for producing,at least now a days fun music.It tends to crank out angry young men,rebellious young women,shit strirring,metallic,pissed off,speed freak,over the top bands. Not that this is a bad thing but... How many bands these days out of Detroit or where ever you may be for that matter are know for producing FUN music. Music that gets you moving,rock n roll that makes sing along,primal feel it in your bones stuff?? The Ruiners are that band, and their new CD happy Bitrthday Bitch (out on 8/24/10 on Pravda records) is that Fun CD. Maybe even the most fun you'll have lsitening to a CD all year.
Posted by Cuda on Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:55 am ( Reads: 119 )(Read More... CD Reviews | 3422 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
I don't claim to be any kinda music expert, or totally up to speed on whats out there ,especially with new stuff from across the world.I used to really pick em when I was reading all kinds of music publications as a youngin,from the well known rags to the obscure zines I read them all. I could pick the diamonds out of a stack of rubbish.My pals in the 80's and for part of the 90's could testify to the fact that I seemed to have gift for picking up on bands that were gonna either be huge or make splash.Now that Im an old fart and kinda stuck in my ways I seek out what I like and most of that is old stuff so I don't hear as much new music as I used to.Especially when it comes to rock music. AOR radio is a diatribe in waiting and I'll spare you my opinions about its state today.
Posted by Cuda on Sat Jul 03, 2010 7:06 pm ( Reads: 91 )(Read More... CD Reviews | 4127 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
GPR productions second show of the spring show season we are calling the "Get Off The Couch" Concert Series featured three completely different bands sound wise, but all connected by their intensity and commitment to give the audience a great show. We featured to start the night off a Toledo punk outfit called The Infernal Names. Having only heard their stuff previously on myspace I was curious to see what they would be like live. Well I'll tell you if Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid is your thing, then Jake, Nick, Ben and Mark are right up your alley.
Posted by Cuda on Thu May 06, 2010 8:23 am ( Reads: 137 )(Read More... Live Show Review | 7746 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
I take a lot of pride in being the average Dad, but I take the same pride about being a little different also. I try to instill in my kids that different is good, and most of all don't be a follower. So it's with teeth grinding that I hear one of them listening to the latest flavor of the month pop star on Disney, High School Musical, or worse yet and most infuriating top 40 radio. My youngest ones are 7, so it's not like I can hand them The Exploited, UK Subs, or even AC/DC and expect them to get it, let alone like it.(Although Nicholas does own a Ramones CD he picked out himself) I don't want "dads music" to scare them off. I keep the brutal angry stuff out of their earshot, and largely this works for everyone. They see how much fun I have playing, watching and listening to my music and they are expressing an interest in it. But what can I give them, that rocks, isn't wimpy cookie cutter music, and has an edge to it???
Posted by Cuda on Sat May 01, 2010 10:29 pm ( Reads: 144 )(Read More... CD Reviews | 5648 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
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Site News: Luxury Pushers,Lorian Skum,Glitter Trash Live in Toledo
The third installment of our" Get off The Couch Concert Series" GPR Productions brings you .......
The Luxury Pushers are a punishing, double-barrel sonic swagger and a post-trash, ugly-pretty aesthetic. They pack a smart-ass sneer that's never smug; taking the immediate, snot-rocket earnest of the American punk tradition and dragging its proud-but-winded ass into the 21st century. The Punks think they're a Rock and Roll band, the rockers think they're Punk and it's all just splitting hairs .How many times are you going get a chance to see a band nominated for an AVN award??
Lorian Skum,,, these long time Cleveland area Punk vets bring thier over the top music and twisted sense of humor to the stage for the 1st time .
Glitter Trash is also making its Toledo debut, think Jerry Springer holding court in a trailer park with Hank Williams Jr and the Sex Pistols providing the sound track..
Posted by Cuda on Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:32 am ( Reads: 70 )(comments? Site News | Score: 0)
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CD Reviews: Review - CL1 and First Offense split CD
Whoever came up with the idea of putting Toledo's CL1 and Akron's First Offense together for a split CD ought to have a gold star put on their forehead. Those of you who didn't make it past the first grade, its a good thing that teachers do for students who put forth a good effort and achieved something. Well heck, as long as we are giving away gold stars then we might as well give them to each band. Both CL1 and First Offense have studied hard and come up with a 10 split CD that's a great listen from start to finish.
Posted by Cuda on Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:13 am ( Reads: 129 )(Read More... CD Reviews | 3699 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
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Interviews: Interview - Blaine Cartwright of Nashville Pussy
Getting the chance to interview Blaine Cartwright of Nashville Pussy (also Nine Pound Hammer) it was hard to shut off my "fan" mode. Hopefully I accomplished this with some conversation with the singer and guitar player from one of my all time favorite rock bands.
Posted by Cuda on Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:49 am ( Reads: 124 )(Read More... Interviews | 4016 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
I'm sick of hearing how people on the Welfare are too lazy to have a job.
I grew up mainly on the Welfare. But before that my mom had worked two jobs, while studying for her GED. She didn't have a diploma, because she was too busy giving birth to me.
And then she got sick.
Real sick.
So we had to go on Welfare.
And even pre all the damned cuts Reagan, two Bushes and a Clinton rammed right on through, at the end of the month, mashed potatoes or corn meal was dinner, the heat and the phone turned off constantly even during a cold PA winter, you could see the gravel through our living room floor of our trailer.
Hell squatting in LA and Philly was an upgrade on my life condition.
Do you really think, I mean really believe, anybody wants to live like that?
Stop buying in to the Ronald Reagan era horsehit, think for yourself, or you can try living under the much more punitive welfare regulations we have now. If you've got a brain in your head you'll either be raiding a CEO's house or looking through the want ads within a week, let alone a month.
And on an unrelated side note, FUCK Don Blankenship
Posted by Cuda on Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:21 am ( Reads: 84 )(comments? The Right Wrong Rev. Paul | Score: 0)
Show # 2 In our "Get off the Couch" concert series.
One of Detroit's fastest rising bands on the rock n roll scene The Ruiners make their Toledo debut at the rowdy n rustic Longhorn Saloon.This band reminds you its only rock n roll and its supposed to FUN and SEXY.
Toledo's own unique rock trio The Motherbirds bring their strut to the stage, along with well known locals The Infernal Names.
Yes indeed this will be a night for rock history in Toledo but leave the kids at home its 21 and over only. $5.00 door
Posted by Cuda on Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:17 am ( Reads: 90 )(comments? Tour Dates | Score: 0)
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Live Show Review: Show recap - Circus Boy, The Dougouts, and Ironclad
Our spring season of shows started out with a BANG on Saturday night. So sorry if you missed the show at Toledo's Longhorn Saloon. It was a packed house with a diverse crowd who were loud, appreciative, and had a good time for their 5 bones.
Posted by Cuda on Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:17 pm ( Reads: 134 )(Read More... Live Show Review | 7562 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
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Toledo Scene: First GPR show of The spring@The Longhorn Saloon
michaelrys writes "Detroit's own 77 style punk legends Circus Boy invade Toledo's rustic rock n roll haven the Longhorn Saloon along with Toledo's rockers The Dougouts ( killer debut CD from them in 2008). Up and commers from Ypsilanti Ironclad bring thier Oi anthem's to Toledo
Join Globalpunkreview.com and Impulse Tattoo for the first party of the spring/summer season....leave the kids at home its 21 and over only "
Posted by Cuda on Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:54 pm ( Reads: 114 )(comments? Toledo Scene | Score: 0)
Cuda">Cuda writes "Whoever thinks mid-western hardcore is dead is out of their minds. It may not be the hardcore old farts like me know, or even some of our little bothers, but the bands that demolished the stage at the Black Cherry in Toledo Saturday proved that hardcore is living, breathing, drinking and fuckin breeding too."
Posted by Cuda on Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:00 pm ( Reads: 177 )(Read More... Live Show Review | 2878 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
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Interviews: Sex Slaves Video Interview & Live clips
Cuda">Cuda writes "J-Bomb, Eric13, and Del Cheetah are some of the hardest working young musicians I think I've ever met. For the better part of the last few years they have toured endlessly, playing their brand of rock n roll.This brand is every bit as hard as the stuff I was weened on in the 80's, but lacks the cheese factor and that's good, because they won't become our cartoon joke after a few years. The songs are well put together, rock like fuck, and lets face it, they are catchy."
Posted by Cuda on Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:52 pm ( Reads: 182 )(Read More... Interviews | 3173 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
michaelrys writes "You are all pussies of the highest order. Every single god damned one of you. You have the House, the Senate, and the Executive branch.
What have you passed?
Butkiss
You're so fucking afraid that the Republicans will fillibuster you, that you wont try and do anything. Well guess what? They'll fillibuster you on their own ideas. They don't view politics as doing the people's business, they view it like winning a football game, it doesn't matter if you play dirty, just so long as you win most have you have been in Washington long enough to have figured that out.
I know you're all very nice people who were raised to play nice with the other children, but every kid who went through an underfunded public school knows, if someone's a bully occasionally you gotta bust 'em in the chops to survive.
You aren't in Washington to further your own ambitions assholes, you're there to cover your district's ass. And you're not doing it right now.
You've got a majority, act like it.
And if you aren't willing to do that, maybe the Green Party can put up some candidates that will.
Over And Out
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Posted by Cuda on Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:34 pm ( Reads: 110 )(comments? The Right Wrong Rev. Paul | Score: 0)
michaelrys writes " The following is a true story, the names have not been changed to protect the guilty. I do not advocate the use of violence but the fukker profiled here should not be trusted with in an inch of anything or anyone you care about.... that said please read on and if possible repost the story and the piece of shit likeness everywhere."
Posted by Cuda on Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:30 pm ( Reads: 174 )(Read More... Site News | 9418 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
Cuda">Cuda writes "Full Scale Panic bring to the table serious subject matter in their song catalog - oppression, civil rights, and so on... but they don't seem to forget to have fun onstage and off. Some times a band can forget to do that, and it will show up in their music. I don't see that happening any time soon to these lads from Toledo Ohio. Tyler, Jas, Chris, and new bassist Mark (Former-Manute Bol) sat down and talked with globalpunkreview.com about their upcoming full length CD on SBS records, and the prospects of touring in 2010."
Posted by Cuda on Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:48 pm ( Reads: 251 )(Read More... Interviews | 3198 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
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Interviews: Interview with Ricky Rat of the Trash Brats
Cuda">Cuda writes "This past September, one of Detroit's best known and well loved bands, the Trash Brats, got back together for a show at Small's. This was the final of three shows the boys put on in 2009. The occasion, well... fans and the band had an itch to scratch. We (globalpunkreview.com) were there and did a video interview with the band, but due to technical problems the video is non-exsistant. Not one to accept defeat, I contact Ricky Rat, founding member of the Trash Brats, and asked him to answer a few questions about the show, and the band's future."
Posted by Cuda on Sun Jan 24, 2010 3:22 am ( Reads: 378 )(Read More... Interviews | 7476 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
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CD Reviews: CD Review- Rammstein-Leibe Ist Fur Alle Da
michaelrys writes "I had very low expectations for this record based on the first single.Recent Rammstein albums have been choppy and inconsistent. This is not the case on this record,its the most consistent record they've done since their American debut.Even the slower songs fit in to the flow of the album.
If you like German metal/industrial music done by one of the godfather bands of it, go now to your local record sale venue.
Review by Rev Paul"
Posted by Cuda on Sun Jan 24, 2010 3:18 am ( Reads: 145 )(comments? CD Reviews | Score: 0)
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CD Reviews: -Jello Biafra 7 The Guantanamo School Of Medicine-The Audacity Of Hype
michaelrys writes "Jello Biafra, hated or loved you cant deny the mans influence on punk, and rock n roll in general. The mighty Dead Kennedy’s have largely turned into a touring tribute band, no better than the guys slinging Guns N Roses tunes at the local pub, (hey, really is there any new music in the works?) only they are raking in cash with kids going to see em so they can get a taste of the 80’s. Jello in the meantime built up a well respected record company, entertained and informed us with spoken word tours/CD’s. The musical projects he’s come out with since the DK’s original bust up have been ok, ( LARD especially so)but nothing Id say was for the ages, nothing earth shatteringly great."
Posted by Cuda on Fri Jan 22, 2010 6:38 am ( Reads: 200 )(Read More... CD Reviews | 2845 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
Cuda">Cuda writes "It's that time of year again... out with the old and in with the new. It's been a rough year for just about all of us, thank goodness for the escape music give us all. The following bands, entertainers, and pinups represent my personal picks for best of 2009. You may not agree, and that's fine. By all means, please post your own. I love hearing and seeing bands I have not heard before."
Posted by Cuda on Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:08 pm ( Reads: 239 )(Read More... Site News | 19403 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
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CD Reviews: False Alarm-Fuck Em All We've Allready(Now)Won/Youth Gone Mad split CD
Reverand Paul writes "False Alarm sounds exactly like you'd expect from a record with Cheetah Crome (Dead Boys) on it. It reminds me a ton of the Dead Boys "We Have Come For Your Children". Everything flat out rocks, but nothing jumps off the page, because everything rocks. So it gets hard to separate the tracks in your mind's eye without repeated listenings. But "No Choice" did stand out a bit. It's a great everything louder then everything else album."
Posted by Cuda on Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:31 am ( Reads: 268 )(Read More... CD Reviews | 1073 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
Reverend Paul writes "This quote unquote "compromise" on health care is. It's so shitty it's tempting for me to just end it here with "This sucks"
But,let me try for verbose"
Posted by Cuda on Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:27 am ( Reads: 294 )(Read More... The Right Wrong Rev. Paul | 1517 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
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Interviews: Interview with Todd Evans of Mobile Deathcamp
Cuda">Cuda writes "Let's get the bitchin' out of the way first... I don't care for the Ritz in Warren Michigan. Over priced drinks, and they don't clean their tap lines. This means when you pay too much for the beer it's skunky as hell. This didn't bother me when I was young fool just happy to get a beer legally or otherwise. Maybe it's just that I'm used to dives where I know almost everyone and I don't feel like the oldest guy in the place... maybe it's just my own insecurities... LOL. Nope, can't stand the place and I don't need a specific reason. But if I like the band enough I'll go, grin and bear it. Second, I'm gonna speed past a couple opening acts in a blitzkrieg review."
Posted by Cuda on Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:08 pm ( Reads: 327 )(Read More... Interviews | 5907 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
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Interviews: Interview with Cody Childers of Into The Void
Cuda">Cuda writes "Cameron (Bass and vocals) and Cody Childers head up one of the most powerful young metal bands around today, Into The Void. They blend new school attitude, and technology with old school work ethic, and sound. With two releases under their belt, See You Pay and Black Dawn, plus thousands of miles of touring, these young guns have bucked traditional ways of getting to their audience for going it alone with both records being done in their studios, on their own label, booking gigs with all sorts of bands be it rock, metal or hardcore punk to even creating their own videos. You would do well to check out Into The Void and their past catalogue while they're working on the new one. In the meantime, we’ve talked to Cody (guitar) about what's happening at Into The Void's home base, and what fans may expect in the future."
Posted by Cuda on Wed Dec 09, 2009 6:10 am ( Reads: 345 )(Read More... Interviews | 9173 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
Cuda">Cuda writes "A great fall evening with some nip in the air, close to Halloween, perfect night to cozy up to a bar and watch some pretty kick ass bands. All at our favorite Globalpunkreview.com watering hole, the Longhorn Saloon in Toledo."
Posted by Cuda on Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:54 am ( Reads: 319 )(Read More... Live Show Review | 6621 bytes more | comments? | Score: 0)
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