Party Punks Druglords Of The Avenues Score Big With Their Third Full Length Record Gotta Light

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Party Punks Druglords Of The Avenues Score Big With Their Third Full Length Record Gotta Light

26/3/2026

Druglords of the Avenues
Gutter Roller Mart
Pirates Press Records

Released this week, on the 20th of May, the third Druglords of the Avenues LP dropped to the sound of bong bubbles and Zippos. Gotta Light features the two radio singles Ghetto Sidewalks and Gutter Roller Mart, which is today’s feature. The ten-track record presents itself as lengthy, yet when we look a little deeper, many tracks are less than two minutes long. That’s intriguing enough, like drive-by darts, they roll out of the player like coins from an activated slot machine.  The band began its life as an experimental divergence for punk vocalist Johnny “Peebucks” Bonnel, from the bands Swingin’ Utters, Filthy Thieving Bastards, and Primitive Heads. Now with three albums, it’s more of a second job. They settle like bitter in an inventive corner somewhere between the billboards of The Pogues and The Pixies then vandalise it by throwing a bit of Circle Jerks style hardcore into the bowl. For fans and collectors, there’s a limited picture disc out there so watch for the link at the end.

It doesn’t have an intro; the song bangs into being with immediate explosivity. The guitars and drums hammer out an extremely fast and technically masterful romp through distortion, treble tone, and palm-muted chops. The vocals yell, yammer, and yellow, along the measured bars of high energy masculine brouhaha that rampages and never repents. Punk at its intensive best.

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