[engl] Pony Bravo is formed by Daniel Alonso (vocal and keyboards), Dario del Moral (base guitar and guitar), Pablo Peña (base guitar and guitar) and Javier Rivera (drums). The band formed in Sevilla at the end of 2005. Pony Bravos’ influences revolve around Andalucian rock, blues, Jamaican reggae (‘60 – ‘70), Ethiopian music (also from the ’60 – ’70) and American rock. The bands intentions are many and every day they have new ideas. One of their core ideas being to mix experimentation, investigation, sense of humour and rhythm in with rock music, without forgetting the Andalucian rock sound so renown in the Sevilla of the ‘70’s. The idea is to try to make visible lines and Antique forms that connect blues with flamenco, African and Arab music with Andalucian music, western with copla, establishing analogies, Rancho vs Cortijo, Son House vs Caracol, Captain Beefheart vs Beni de Cadiz, Nina Simone vs Lole, Silvio vs Tom Waits, etc, etc…

[engl] “Un Gramo de Fe” (El Rancho 2010), second album by Pony Bravo after their revolutionary debut a couple of years ago, its a practical exercise of pure sound experimentation, with references that go from a more introverted post-punk to a more hypnotic and repetitive krautrock, they even flirt a bit with the Cuban son. Seventies melodies of nocturnal funk, capable of confusing anyone and anything (bungalows for example) with their Groove base (“Noche de Setas”), they appear on the album with a celebrated tribute to Manolo Caracol and he’s “Niña de Fuego” With out forgetting the melodious and subtle sound of the trumpets and clarinets of their friends Za! (Papa Dupau y Spazzfrica Ehd), that come in and out at their own whim, with the company of that delicious down tempo organ that’s capable of invoking the elegance of Dimitri From París de “Sacré Français” in the ironic “Super-Broker”. (La Fonoteca).

[engl] PORKERIA from South Texas play Mexican/Latino/Chicano/Tejano/whatever-you-wanna-call-it raw punk!! Featuring an ex-member of BASTARD SONS of APOCALYPSE they play hc/punk, fast and blistering, and also, melodic and catchy. Their style is closely associated to the early second-wave of UK '82 and international punk like G.B.H., APPENDIX, and R.I.P., and of course, DISCHARGE.

[engl] So, suddenly a new young band appears and everything we thought was solid and unmovable becomes a big pile of rubble. It’s that capacity to learn all the lessons, tear them apart and create something completely new, that only todays youth have. Theirs is the spark; theirs is the rage and force. Punk is theirs. With ‘Llarga vida al taranna?’, their first studio album, the very young Power Burkas instantly become the band we are talking about. Born in 2013, they released an EP, a demo and a cassette in less than two years; they will now publish their first LP, fifteen tracks that will leave many speechless. Prodigal sons of Vic, Power Burkas have no problem with drinking from many a fountain as long as they quench their thirst, from Fugazi to The Velvet Underground, from Minutemen to The Beatles, from Sonics to Jawbox and even vindicating the local bands they grew up with, Els Surfing SIrles, Tro?pical Ice Land or FP. That is how they achieve a mix of garage, 80’s punk, power pop and post-hardcore and turn it into a new complex free and perfectly solid sound. No cut and paste, no imposture. The album starts with urgency in “Potser”, making it clear there will be no half- heartlessness, and is followed by a high level hymn called “Ja ens entenem’. With just two songs, they prove the album will be anything but predictable. The unex- pected changes in rhythm flow naturally and you continually feel that the restrained nerve will explode into a melodic supernova at any moment. Just that happens in “Ferralla”, where a hysteric chorus with loud vocals and visions of raised fists breaks loose. Everything here is power and celebration (like the song that gives the album its name), or tension and dynamite (the speedy “20”). Power Burkas have an amazing capacity for knitting vocal melodies that are quite unusu- al in a guitar rock band (check out the beautiful “El pop I la gallega”, the dance- able “La mission de l’home e?s ser Patro?” or the exciting “Aiguarra?s”. “Llarga vida al taranna?” was recorded and mixed on low heat by Joan Peiron, gui- tarist and producer of FP. Together, he has managed to boost the bands naked yet immersive sound, their ready guitars, their tremendously creative rhythmic sec- tion, their memorable bass lines and vocals, that lay comfortably among both the intimate parts and the mad ‘shouted’ ones. “Llarga vida al taranna?” is no promise. It’s proof. Power Burkas will exceed all expectations.

[engl] Umea's finest young band shares this split with East Germanys SHUT THE FUCK UP who play fast, aggressive and powerful early 80s infected hardcore.