The Creeps- “Follow You Home” – (It’s Alive Records)
The Creeps- “Follow You Home” – (It’s Alive Records) The Creeps are totally great. They are the best kind of that great catchy, poppy, bittersweet kind of punk. They have a great feel of sincerity I don’t hear enough. They remind me of The Replacements or that Plimsoul’s song “a Million Miles Away” that was [...]
Captain, We’re Sinking- “It’s a Trap” (Kind Of Like Records
Captain, We’re Sinking- “It’s a Trap” (Kind Of Like Records)Listening to this four song E.P. made me think of how fun it must be to see these guys play at basement house parties. I’m sure everyone would be bouncing and singing along. It would be humid from everyone’s sweat but just smell like fun. It [...]
Police & Thieves- “The Blizzard Sessions ’10″ (Self Released)
Police & Thieves- “The Blizzard Sessions ’10″ (Self Released) Pretty decent Hardcore from D.C. If you’re into Gorilla Biscuits and similar stuff then maybe they will be to your liking. I have to admit I don’t listen to hardcore much these days. Maybe when one turns thirty years old a switch gets flipped inside somewhere [...]
The Liarbirds – “Cut The Slack”
The Liarbirds – “Cut The Slack” - Punk and pop from Minneapolis. I can imagine this band getting a song played on alternative rock radio. I can’t stand alternative rock radio, but a lot of people love it. There wasn’t one song on the album I liked all the way through. There would be a [...]
Disalto- “One beacon in the strand” (Self Released)
Disalto- “One beacon in the strand” (Self Released) I’m going to split hairs here and make the distinction that Disalto is not a punk band. I would call them an alternative rock band. My first impression is that they are kind of similar to “at the drive in” with occasional Nu Metal style break downs [...]
Angleworm-”Humdinger!”- (Self Released)
Angleworm- Humdinger!- (Self Released) Connecticut’s Angleworm have proudly been playing pop punk how it should be for over 5 years, but still manage to keep themselves label-shackle free and independent. Fuck the girly looking MTV poster boys playing guitar led pop music to overgrown emos- there’s still meant to be PUNK in pop-PUNK. Rant over. [...]
The Split Up’s- “S/T” (Whens Lunch Records)
The Split Up’s- “S/T” (Whens Lunch Records) Like The Adicts? You’ll love Canada’s The Split Up’s then. Hate poppy, old-school punk? You’re wasting your time reading this. Right, now the losers with their crap taste have gone: Opening track ‘Action Man’ couldn’t sound any more like Monkey and his boys, with it’s distorted guitars and [...]
The Rejected Bastards- “EP Back To the Old Routines” (Lost Youth Records)
The Rejected Bastards- “EP Back To the Old Routines” (Lost Youth Records) It’s straight into the typical punk rock with Belgium’s Rejected Bastards. This EP is opened with ‘Chupacabra’, a 2 minute instrumental track, an odd start to a punk album. Track two, Understand’, is half instrumental, half proper song, but there is more signing [...]
Mall’d To Death: “Can’t Make A Living” -(Geykido Comet)
Mall’d To Death: “Can’t Make A Living” -(Geykido Comet) Prime example of a band that has all of the right influences, yet somehow manage to miss the mark. This Turd City trio draws from the well of Crimpshine, Dillenger 4 and even throw in some horn-less ska parts not unlike Operation Ivy. Musically, there’s a [...]
Sellfish- “Major League Punkrock” -(Self Released)
Sellfish- “Major League Punkrock” -(Self Released) - Sellfish wear their influences on their sleeves, and as soon as pick hits chord, these influences can be heard, with NOFX riffs and Bad Religion vocals hitting your ears straight away. The band is from the Netherlands, but Major League Punkrock could easily pass for a Californian soundtrack to [...]
Seeing Stars
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Old Wives – “See you in Hell” (Self Released) (read) -
The Varsity Weirdos – “Can’t Go Home” (It’s Alive Records) (read) -
Beantown Boozehounds – “Pour Another Round” (Sailors Grave Recor (read) -
That’s Incredible – “Self Titled 7 inch” (It’s Alive Records) (read) -
Flobots – “Survival Story” (Who Cares) (read) -
The Snookys – “Set the world on fire” (Make Believe Records) (read) -
Rough On Rats – “Self Titled EP” (Self Released) (read) -
Resolder – “Everybody In Between” (Self Released) (read) -
Dirty Filthy Mugs – “All Yobs In” – (DC Jam Records) (read) -
The Atom Age – “Kill Surf City” – (Solidarity Recordings) (read) -
Sex Wing Starfighter – “Same Old Hope” (read) -
The Senti-Mentals – “Steve’s the cool guy” (read) -
Forget My Name – “Bruised, Broken & Alive” (read) -
The Mcrackins – “It ain’t over easy” (Wolverine Records) (read) -
Unbelievers – “The Guts & The Gory” (read) -
Johnny Roastbeef – “Songs from the Sack” (read) -
New York Taxi –“the calm before the…” (read) -
Rad Company – “Carnivals” (read) -
Fool for Glory – “Pressin’ On” (read) -
Now Again – “Now Again“ (read)
