Ten years is a hell of a long time to be in a band, let alone being in the gargantuan touring wrecking machine that is King Parrot. Broken teeth, skinned knees, black eyes and empty cans are all in a day’s work for the boys Read More …
Category: Features
Crannk Interviews Assassin Bassist Joachim Kremer
Hailing out of Germany is the legendary Teutonic Thrash pioneers and one of the legends of the German Thrash scene is Assassin. Having officially formed in 1984 Assassin released two demos and two albums “The Upcoming Terror” and “The Interstellar Experience” in-between 1984-1988. Assassin quickly Read More …
Crannk’s Mike The Punk Presents “Folk Punk In February”
This month I’ve been listening to a lot of folk punk ahead of a piece I’m working on about the folk-punk community in Australia. I thought I’d share a few words about some of the releases that I’ve been listening to in an attempt to Read More …
2019 A Punk’s Year In Review By Mike The Punk
I’m sure most people have made their best of 2019 lists by now but I’m not really into those lists so for me it seemed a better option to do a year in review piece. The following is a bunch of punky stuff that got Read More …
Mike The Punk’s Compilations Vol.1
Most punkers can name at least one compilation from whatever part of the scene they belong to, my cd collection was created during the 90’s and punk compilations were a huge part of that.The big compilations were the “Punk O Rama” (Epitaph Records) and “Fat Read More …
Crannk June for Punx
This month the punktoria group I manage is celebrating its 1st year anniversary and that is enough of a milestone for me to have a beer. It was originally called Shepparton Punk Bands and Fans until 10 days later when it became clear how small Read More …
Crannk’s Mayhem Metal Release Picks
May see’s another big month of mayhem and heavy with so many great releases and genres of heavy metal from all over the globe to choose from. First off in Sweden we have the legendary Entombed who released “Clandestine Live” on the 17th,not to be Read More …
Mad Punks Crannk May
May is shaping up to be a great month for the punk scene in Australia with a few music videos being released like Wollongong punkers Topnovil for their song “Nadine“ and Newcastle punks Trashed Again with “Long Way Home” from their EP “Another Way To Fail” Read More …
April Punk Anarchy at Crannk
In the Australian punk scene this month we have some rad stuff happening from album releases to some international favourites from America and Japan. Australian Releases include the debut album from Broken English – Leave which is out on the 5th(Check out our review for Read More …
Mad March 2019 Releases
There are some really great bands bringing out albums and Ep’s this month Truth Corroded,Fallujah,All This Filth and so many more from Heavy Metal to Punk and everything in between, here are some releases Crannk has picked for you to check out and Crannk up Read More …
Royal Republic – The rescuer in my need
Actually, I don’t remember how I discovered Royal, but what I do know is that the gentlemen in Royal Republic saved me when I had to endured a hell of a winter in the small town Norrtälje, a two hour bus-ride from Stockholm. It was Read More …
Strange Peps Music – part 6: Electric Boys
Hi! This i Peps again, and I’m continuing my journey of Swedish bands that made me the man I am today. The lesson today is the band Electric Boys, a band that played a mayor part for me in the late 80s/early 90s. And still Read More …