A new label has been launched, an offshoot of Caribb Roots that focuses more on ‘white’ music such as punk, garage, psychedelic blues, rockabilly and country...
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The Rads are a raw, high-energy band from Florence, reigniting the flame of proto-punk with a distinctly contemporary edge. Formed in September 2024 by a quartet of rock'n'roll veterans, the band delivers an uncompromising blend of grit and rebellion — self-aware, mature, and hard-hitting — capturing the wild essence of punk's origins in an adult and conscious form.Their debut EP, Only the Beginning, recorded just three months after the band's formation and released on June 22, 2025, is a five-track tour de force that channels the chaotic spirit of the past while boldly carving out a new direction.The intense live activity throughout 2025 — relentless, unapologetic, and formative — has fuelled the writing of a new album, and the two new singles define its direction with striking clarity. Loud, fast, honest. The Rads are just getting started.
WHITE MOON A brooding, introspective punk rock punch. Lyrically, the song navigates self-reflection and resilience — gold dust blowing away, broken bones still standing, rust being cleared. The imagery is nocturnal and melancholic, with the white moon as a witness to unspoken regret. YOU THINK YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH ME BUT IT'S NOT A straight-ahead, high-energy rocker driven by a relentless chords riff that owes as much to early rock'n'roll as it does to punk attitude. The lyrics are sharp and confrontational, a raw takedown of self-deception disguised as romance, told from the point of view of someone who sees right through the illusion. "You want a mirror, not a man you can hold" is the kind of line that lands like a punch.
7' - White Moon/You think you are in love
Don Diego Trio
"Let The Twang Get To You"
"Too Many Miles" è il disco che ho sempre voluto fare. Un album che esplorasse la musica Americana degli anni 50, 60 e 70 senza barriere. Un disco che se ascoltato in viaggio ti possa fare compagnia lungo una strada desolata, ma anche un disco che riesca a catapultarti in un road trip virtuale chiudendo gli occhi mentre lo si ascolta seduti in poltrona. C'è del rockabilly anni 50, del truckin' country anni 60, una punta di "outlaw music" anni 70 e tanto altro. L'ho pensato come un disco di canzoni che potessero rimanere in testa all'ascoltatore e registrato nella maniera più genuina possibile: una band in studio che suona dal vivo attorniato da strumentazione vintage.
"Too Many Miles"
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“Every road leads me back in time, To your front door and your goodbye smile. Baby, I’ve been runnin’ wild, But there’s just too many miles.” So sings Diego in the title track, and we sing along with him, ready to set out once more".
(Vittorio Bongiorno – writer and film director)
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