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With The Quickness #14: Ryan Taylor's Telephone Road Street Essentials, Vol. 1 (Liberty & Justice)

Liberty & Justice have quickly become one of our personal favorite bands in recent months. Honestly, at this point, we're not even exactly sure how or where we discovered Liberty & Justice, but we do know it was partly due to their socially distant remotely-recorded quarantine-shot music video for "Dancing On My Own" self-released this past March. In the months since, we've gotten to "know" the fellas from Liberty & Justice—Ryan "Crowns" Taylor, Cory "Gaza" Parker, Edwin Carson, Halston Luna & Ramzi Beshara—albeit, only via email (for now!) but they're a truly great, extremely motivated, hard-working gang of dudes. Since releasing their exquisite Robyn cover, Liberty & Justice unleashed a like-minded cover of Green Day's "J.A.R." AKA "jason andrew relva," along with three originals, "no more orbits," "second ward serenade," and "halfway home," all uploaded...

Liberty & Justice's All-around Breakdown for Pre-PRESSURE Benefit Tracks & "J.A.R." Music Video Premiere (Green Day)

Liberty & Justice are a Houston, Texas-based Punk, Hardcore Skinhead & Oi! group. Their current line-up consists of frontman Ryan "Crowns" Taylor, bassist Edwin Carson, drummer Cory "Gaza" Parker, and guitarists Halston Luna & Ramzi Beshara. Since forming in 2016, Liberty & Justice have released a full-length, 4 All (2019) on Crowd Control media, as well as numerous singles, EP's, and splits. Prior to The COVID-19 Pandemic and Nation-wide shutdowns, Liberty & Justice had, apparently, been working on their follow-up to 4 All. However, it was quickly brought to a screeching halt a few months ago, along with many of Liberty & Justice's members' own small businesses. Back at the end of March, Liberty & Justice quietly released their own impassioned Punk/Oi! rendition of Robyn's 2020 Dance-Pop/Disco smash-hit, "Dancing On My Own." It was accompanied by a remotely-recorded and socially-distant music video recorded, e...

Liberty & Justice Share Socially Distant Remotely-recorded Punk/Oi! Cover of Robyn's "Dancing On My Own" (Liberty & Justice Letter Tracing)

Liberty & Justice are a Street Rock "N" Roll/Punk/Oi! band hailing from Houston, Texas, whose current line-up consist of frontman Ryan "Crowns" Taylor , drummer Cory "Gaza" Parker , bassist Edwin Carson , and guitarists Halston Luna & Ramzi Beshara . Collectively, Liberty & Justice 's members either have played or currently play with Black Coffee , Darkbuster, Fm359 (ex-Dropkick Murphys,) Fun Haunts, The Killer Hearts , Peloton, Poizon , Roger Miret & The Disasters, Thug Boots , Trash Magz, and tWeezer . Liberty & Justice self-release their self-titled demo/debut EP in 2017-18, followed by a 2018 split EP with The Abductors entitled Short Haired Rock n' Roll on Arrest Records, their full-length debut, 4 ALL , on LA-based imprint Crowd Control Media , and, most recently, a single-sided limited edition 2019 cassette tape (re-released digitally as Just Us ) on sister sound. Now, amidst the global Coronavirus/COVID-19 Pandemic...