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Agent Orange || Listen
Way back in 1981 the legendary Posh Boy Records released the first LP by Agent Orange which is easily one of the best Southern California punk rock albums of the decade it was released in. Living in Darkness featured eight songs that blended surf with melodic punk. While everyone started playing hardcore, Agent Orange stuck to their rather unique blend that mixed some classic influences with their punk rock and the result was this fantastic album, one that has become a punk rock staple. When you think of early punk rock records, Living in Darkness is likely included in lists of all time great punk records.

The album included the song, “Bloodstains” which is easily the band’s most popular song and ranks among the greatest punk rock songs ever written. It shares its grooves with other top-notch songs like the equally great, “Everything Turns Grey”, a song that as a close second for best Agent Orange song. “Too Young To Die,” “The Last Goodbye” and the title track are among the other greats on this LP, one that is a flawless listen from start to finish. On top of the great songwriting and playing on this record, the production was pretty damn impressive for a punk rock album too and totally sounds timeless even now on the album’s 30th birthday.The Punk Vault

Black Apples || Watch
Warning. Listening to The Black Apples is good for your health. Doctor’s and old people tell you eating apples daily is good for your health. Listening to The Black Apples trumps that. They will drop kick you in the mouth and leave your ears pulsating and feeling liberated. With a sweet loud 60′s psycho sense to keys, powerful guitars and rock n’ roll vibe that oozes long nights, benders, chicks and a we don’t care attitude, this band will annihilate your speakers and get deep into you! After listening to the them, you will simply have two choices- to either walk away or listen to them even more loudly. We choose to listen to these kids when we are just wanting to kick start our day. The Black Apples, LA’s raw, masters of garage psychedelic rock are a band whose sounds are relentless. Their music leaves you overcome by a power similar to what people experience during a Pentecostal rebirth; you know where they start shaking, feeling so jacked up, running around because they don’t know what to do with all their new found energy. The band will have you so amped up you’ll never want to come down as if possessed yourself!Loud Vine

TRMRS || Listen||Watch

If Quentin Tarantino decides to greenlight a Pulp Fiction sequel, he’d be a damn fool not to use TRMRS on the soundtrack. The Costa Mesa quartet—singer/guitarist Anthony Perry, singer/guitarist Tommy Stewart, bassist Loui A. Tomic and drummer Wyatt Blair—play a surf-inspired garage rock aptly described as “trash pop” that answers the question: What would the Sonics sound like if Link Wray played lead and they were molested by the Germs? OC Weekly

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Fidlar || Listen
The loud, garagey, rock ‘n’ roll sounds of FIDLAR hit you like that first rip of weed you took during class in the bathroom at high school. Raised on early 80′s west coast punk, Zac Carper and Elvis Kuehn write trashy nuggets with a melodic CCR sensibility. Based in Highland Park, where they record demos and make weird youtube videos for every song they have, these dudes blend the brattiness of Redd Kross and the party mentality of Black Lips to form their own sound that is FIDLAR.Fidlar Review