The Exports are a 4 piece punk/rock band that originated in the Frankston/Cranbourne area of Melbourne. Starting in high school, the group has been together for a bit over a year. I’ve been aware of the band for a little while now as I’d seen Read More …
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Crannk Interviews Grass Mud Horse, Chris Barry
No Prey No Pay Review and Interview by Mike The Punk Grass Mud Horse is essentially a solo project for multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter Chris Barry, who writes and records the songs (at times with a little help) but for live shows in their home country 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 …
Crannk Reviews Fake News – “Break The Silence” EP
Fake News are a 5 piece punk rock band from the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. The band released its new EP ‘Break The Silence’ somewhere near the end of December 2019. ‘Break The Silence’ contains four new tracks and has a runtime a little over Read More …
Crannk Reviews Drunktank – “Return Of The Infamous Four” album
Drunktank are a 4 piece band from The Hague, Netherlands who formed around 2003, they have released 4 EP’s and an album titled ‘The Infamous Four‘ which is celebrating its 10 year anniversary on the 5th of March 2020. The album is being released on vinyl 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 …
Crannk Reviews Donkey Vote “People Eating Tasty Animals” Album
Donkey Vote are a 4 piece punk band from Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The band is relatively new having formed in 2018. The band released their debut EP ‘Home & Hosed’ in December that year. This release was the first thing I reviewed for Crannk way Read More …
Crannk’s A Wreckless Interview with Wollongong’s Wreckless Enterprise.
Mike – Firstly, thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for Crannk, I’ve been following your label most of the year and its been an exciting ride for a fan, I even bought a cheap record player just to listen to your vinyl Read More …
Crannk Reviews The Self-Titled Ep from Homestate
Homestate are a pop-punk band from Perth, Western Australia, Australia. The band was previously known as ‘At The Counter’ and were active under this name from 2007-2017. This self-titled EP is the second release from ‘Homestate‘ the first being an 11 track album called ‘A Read More …
Crannk Reviews The Phosphorous Bombs – ‘… Against You’ EP
The Phosphorous Bombs are a 5 piece band from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia who play hardcore/skatepunk. The band formed in 2014 and began releasing music the next year, here’s a rough guide to what they have released so far with some links 2015 – Read More …