★★★★★
If you want to know why Downtown Boys sound so angry on their debut album Full Communism, watch the music video for "Wave of History". In the clip, the Providence-based band outlines the realities of prison overcrowding, the racial divide in U.S. arrest rates, and the number of people killed by police--very real problems that, for many, are remarkably easy to ignore...
- pitchfork.com
2015-05-08
★★★★★
Life in 2015 is in many ways a study in contradictions. We're told that we're living in a post-racial society in which all are treated as equals and the problems of the past are just that -- in the past. Yet a simple flick of the TV remote or a few minutes spent reading the latest headlines or browsing social media tells a very different story, one about a society where little has changed, progress is blocked at every turn and old wounds not only remain open, but have salt poured in them on a...
- www.punknews.org
2015-05-06
★★★★★
Downtown Boys have never been shy about making the political personal. Each member of the sextet has a background in social organizing, and they bring this knowledge to their raucous and commanding live shows. In 2012, the Providence-based band released an unhinged eponymous album featuring a range of rough tracks, covers, and live songs. The record's follow-up arrived in 2014 in the form of a self-titled seven-inch...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2015-05-06
★★★★★
The second album from this Providence, RI band led by Victoria Ruiz is an impressive set of sax-driven punk with pummeling rhythms, shouted vocals and politically militant, bilingual lyrics. 5/1/2015
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- kexp.org
2015-05-02
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