Hong Kong’s Nepali community has a new addition to their scene via pop punk band The Punkins. Formed in 2015, the band started as a cover act but as they got better with their instruments they started creating their own material. Fast forward to 2021 and the band released their debut self-titled album. They even dropped a music video for a track off the album entitled ‘Drama Queen’.
Listening to the music almost immediately takes us back to the late 90s pop-punk world of Hong Kong. Believe it or not, there once was a VERY vibrant punk rock community in HK full of bands, shows, zines, and even record labels. So much energy in the air with things happening here all the time. Full-lengths, splits, compilation records, even had some bands come out here during that time including Fugazi. What a time that was…
Check out the band and their music streaming below.
Very cool to see some fellow Asian extreme musicheads who live out here in the west (United Kingdom to be precise) also continuing to actually play music instead of...
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