Shock Treatment: Hi there Disket! Thanks for participating in my interview! Tell me about how you all met and decided to combine your rock n roll super powers to form Disket? DISKET: We’ve known each through the music scene in New York and through the bands our members play in. Mary and Claudia from Baby Shakes, Myke from Mala Vista, Roberto from Vaxine and Dani DJs around NYC. Claudia was the first to throw around the idea of jamming together. It was pretty casual at first, we practiced and wrote songs for about a year before we even had a name. Shock Treatment: So Keith Richards has to have a Shepherd's Pie before each performance and Alice Cooper has to watch Kung Fu movies to get into character before he hits the stage. Do any of you have any pre-performance rituals? Running B/W Vamos A Ganar by Disket DISKET: Oh is that what KR gets?!! Then we need Choripan and Cuchifritos before we set one foot on stage! Sometimes we take a dip in the east river before a show, you should try ...

This band is imbedded in a dark, dank domain, where mechanical demons dream. A realm where blood and oil carve the landscape in metal like rivers through solid rock. Cold sharp wiring wraps around your flesh and pierces it, binds it to itself until it consumes every part of you. Not just the physical flesh, but your mind and soul as well. It will absorb you in every way possible until you and it are one. And once that happens, you are forever bound to it, a nightmare that lasts an eternity. This is the dimension where L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation reside. It is as much of a state of mind as you allow it. It is as powerful an entity as you give it permission and it is difficult to resist it's calling.  L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation – Machine Hallucinations PRESALE by L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation are a New York City collective of musicians, visual artists, DJ/'s and activists that churn out music that sounds as if...

Sneak are a newer band that I recently discovered from my hometown of Phoenix, Arizona that almost made me jump in the air with one fist extended towards the bright blue heavens. That's probably what I would have done if I didn't think I'd hurt myself doing so. Just know that mentally, I was also doing backflips like a Cirque du Soleil performer. This band hit many of my musical sweet spots. Sneak are made up of members from other bands such as Knife's Edge, Heavy Breather and Here In Spirit. This here is their debut release and it is bound to make some waves in the valley of the sun this year. These guys play a type of music that I can only describe tormented hardcore punk.   Alright by Sneak Let's dig into this shall we? The first song simply titled "Sneak" serves as the perfect introduction to the house of horrors you're about to enter tip toeing, afraid to wake the sleeping beasts. It wet's the sonic appetite just right though. It's not unt...

  Eel Men are a London 4 piece that have been around since 2022. This is their third EP and it's the follow up to 2025's stellar LP Stop It Do Something. On this EP, the band continue their sonic exploration into Nick Lowe / Elvis Costello type new wave-y, power pop, indie rock, whatever the hell you want to call it. The bottom line is this; Eel Men write damn good songs, they're weighty but at the same time appear to be carried by light, catchy melodies coupled with memorable guitar riffs. What Eel Men are not is arrogant, self important or brash in any way. Their songs do tend to have a senesce of gravity to them but never come off as snobby or too heady for their own good. This is rock n roll after all and these guys get that. The fist tune up to bat is the title track "Glass Hammers". It's a riff heavy track, slower in tempo, but it pushes it's way into your conscience, slowly and steadily. The second song on the A-Side is a magnificent tune called ...

Interview conducted with Orville Neeley (Guitar/Vocals) and TV's Daniel (Bass/Vocals) Shock Treatment: So I’d like to take this to the very beginning of Bad Sports! How did you guys meet and decided to form the band? Orville: Daniel and I met in 2004 at UNT in Denton, Tx. He had another band called The Wrists that I went to see several times. At some point in 2005 Daniel talked about doing a more rock’n’roll style band with Mike from the Wrists and I basically begged him to let me play in the band. As far as I knew, there was nothing like that happening in Denton. I wasn’t yet familiar with the Marked Men, but I would be soon. These were the days of “dance punk”, emo, and grindcore. Most of the shows I saw in my first year in Denton consisted of some such bands and I was pretty sick of it. Lots of Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand wannabees around as well. Fast forward to summer of 2007; I had just gotten back from a disastrous first tour with another one of my bands. It looked like...

Just when I start to feel my age and start looking to see if the Vans I'm buying have the "Comfy Cush" soles. It's right around this time when I'm starting to settle into middle age and start thinking to myself, maybe I should learn to barbeque something? I also start to get an urge in the back of my mind to dive a little bit deeper into World War II. Then a record like this comes out and sets me back 25 years! To say things like The Riffs are back to top form, haven't missed a step or, haven't lost their way, would be total trash. When I first heard about this record coming out, there was no doubt in by mind that it'd be as solid as a brick through a window. This band never did take a wrong turn or stumble one bit during their initial run from 1999 to roughly 2003 or so. The Riffs are one of the best American Punk bands of all time and to even suggest otherwise would be blasphemous speech. This isn't the kind of band that'd release some throwa...

Photo by Bayu Rizki Maulana Shock Treatment: Tell me about growing up in Indonesia and how Rock n’ Roll music first found you? Andresa Nugraha: I’ve been living all my life in the same city as I was born. I felt like growing up here is hard, because there are not many options you can do, unless you’re from a stable family, especially if you wanna be an artist, so you don’t have to start it the hard way. You’ll get a better percentage of having a decent life by graduating from college and getting a decent job or doing business on your own. I came from a middle class family, both my late parents were civil servants. Unfortunately, they made really bad financial decisions most of the time. So as a kid, I kinda know the ups and downs in life at an early stage. Also, my family isn’t musical. I never got interested in music until I was 12/13, but my sister, Laura (who is 8 years older than me), listened to 90s MTV rock music like Nirvana, Silverchair, Weezer, Incubus, Ozma etc almost eve...

Position Nuit (pronounced  nwee)  are a volcanic L.A. five piece band that plays blown out rock n' roll with a dark and surly disposition. This is their debut single, consisting of only two songs yes, but these songs will leave enough of an impact, enough of that salty taste in your mouth, that it'll leave you thrusting for more. The band sounds like they were raised on real rock n' roll as a religion, much like The Cramps, Nick Cave or Jon Spencer treat or treated their craft. There's an old saying: "you have to know the architecture before you start tearing down the walls." Well, the same goes for adding walls and coats of paint. But Position Nuit have a strong enough foundation, that they can do whatever the hell they want and I'd like it.  The first song "The Filthiest" starts out with a killer, rolling thunder drumbeat accompanied by loud, aggressive guitars pushing right up against it, like a freight train right on it's heels. Creating ...

Interview conducted with Nasty Rumours lead vocalist Juli Shock Treatment So the last time I interviewed you guys, it was October of 2015! You guys went from being the scrappy new band to elder statesmen! In those 11 years, how do you feel you guys have become wiser or grown as a band? Juli: Time flies it is crazy. As a band we definitely matured, maybe not so much as people haha. It's been 11 years of fun playing, recording and being on the road. I think we managed to become a decent live band over the years. Dilemma by NASTY RUMOURS Shock Treatment: Last year, you guys released that killer split 7” with Cyanide Pills. The two songs you guys had on there “My Final Heartbeat” and “Bury Me In My Leather Jacket” are great, some of the best Nasty Rumours tunes to date! Did you guys purposely put two songs about death on the record? Juli: It's actually a coincidence and no big concept behind it. My shrinks words not mine haha. "My final heartbeat" didn't make it on t...

Once again Lord Rutledge and I bring you the concept of what we like to call "tandem posts". This time, we bring you bands of the 2000's (2000 - 2009 to be exact). Again, it was not an easy task to narrow it down to only ten, but somehow I managed. Go check out Faster and Louder to see Josh's take on his favorites of the era. And like our previous tandem post about our essential 1990's punk bands, we have no idea what the other is selecting! To listen to some songs from these bands, plus more from this time period, check out my playlist at the end of this post.  10. The Busy Signals  The first thing that hits you when you drop the needle on The Busy Signal's debut LP is singer Analucia McGorty's vocals. It's the kind of voice that transports you to another world. The songs are so charismatic you forget you're basically listening to a scrappy underground punk record. Their LP came out in 2007 on Dirtnap Records and it's got this quality about i...