Round Eye

Round Eye

Culture Shock Treatment

Sudden Death

With their new album Culture Shock Treatment, Round Eye, the Shanghai-based band of ex-patriots, turn their demented focus on their own place of residence, The People’s Republic of China, and fire on all cylinders. Physically released by Joey Shithead’s (D.O.A.) Sudden Death Records, Culture Shock Treatment acts as a lysergic, nightmare-drenched punk rock protest record and direct criticism of the Chinese Communist Party, shining a light on the oppression of Hong Kong and the Uygher people, Xi Jin Ping’s growing influence and power on a global scale, the Ministry of Culture and its methods of propaganda and surveillance—not seen since the cult of personality surrounding Mao Zedong during the Culture Revolution, and some comical cultural pitfalls one can experience while living in the “Pearl of the Orient.” The experimental, sax-wielding, freak punk outfit continue to accrue a loud and controversial name for themselves since forming in 2012, and has as of late been a crucial force in bridging a wide gap between the eastern and western hemispheres of DIY punk rock. Along with blazing a trail all over the globe, they’ve played host to visiting western punks and some legends as well. Culture Shock Treatment, the band’s third album and fourth release overall, continues the band’s genre bending acumen through cultural satire with great success, along with some pretty harsh levity, and, being that this release was produced by none other than Mike Watt (Minutemen) and Bill Stevenson (Descendents, Black Flag) to boot, it sounds pretty incredible as well. Captain...

Round Eye

Monstervision

Sudden Death

Round Eye, China’s only adopted punk sons, the legends of freakish sax-wielding rock and roll experimentation, have signed to Canada’s infamous and longest running base of punk operations Sudden Death Records to release their newest album Monstervision, along with two critically acclaimed music videos, featured on the album: the anti-Trump’s America “Billy” and “Sifter,” which was entirely filmed in a carnival in Pyongyang, North Korea, making it the very first punk rock video filmed in the DPRK! On this masterpiece, the madmen of Shanghai team up with TV personality and former The Daily Show comedian Joe Bob Briggs (John Bloom) to present to the bizarro world formerly called Earth a new list of “alternative facts” to scratch your ass to. Monstervision—a nod to the beloved late-night TV show that featured cult horror movie classics—marks the final recorded performances of the late great Steve Mackay (saxman for Iggy Pop and the Stooges / Violent Femmes) and has appearances by Chinese rock giants Kang Mao of SUBS and music by 70s NYC punk vets The Fleshtones; all this with a ghoulish serving of narration and story telling by the true rose of the trailer park: Joe Bob Briggs himself.