The Riverdales – “Tarantula” – (Recess Records)
The Riverdales – “Tarantula” – (Recess Records) – I’ll be honest: I wasn’t thrilled with Invasion USA at first. It’s a really good album, but to me it was kind of a letdown after the nearly flawless Phase 3. When I heard that Tarantula was going to be more of the same, I got excited [...]
The Challenged – Loaded Language (Rally Records)
The Challenged – “Loaded Language”- (Rally Records) – Oh boy, was I excited to find out I’d get to review this one! I absolutely loved their last record, Relapse. The Challenged sound like a few guys decided to take a nap in the late 90’s, and didn’t wake up until now and then started playing [...]
The Adicts- “Life Goes On” – (People Like You Records)
The Adicts- “Life Goes On” – (People Like You Records) - This, the 8th studio album from The Adicts, carries on the typical sound the band have had throughout their 35 year career. But that is no way a bad thing. It’s a cheesy cheerful punk rock nostalgia trip, with brilliant instrumentals and sing-a-long lyrics. [...]
Mad Sin- “Burn and Rise” (People Like You)
Mad Sin- “Burn and Rise” (People Like You) -The German psychobilly gods are back with album number 13. And it’s straight into the kreepy and kooky rock and roll. I challenge you to resist dancing as soon as you hear any song from this record. Even the zombies they sing about wouldn’t be able to [...]
The New 45 – “Self Titled”
The New 45 – “Self Titled” – These blokes formally known as The Glenn Theory Project don’t disappoint with their self titled release. With a name like The New 45 I was really expecting some sort of irritating indie rock piece of crap. What I got instead were five songs of extremely by-the-numbers pop punk. [...]
Generalissimo- ” Western Medicine “-(Arbeit Macht Dinge)
Generalissimo- ” Western Medicine “ (Arbeit Macht Dinge) Reading from their myspace page, you might think Generallisimo are a bit weird. You’d think right. Listening to their debut LP will make you want to slick your hair back and don a khaki uniform. It’s all very serious. It’s all very political too, which may be appealing [...]
The Defendants – “Uncle Scam”
The Defendants – “Uncle Scam” – This record is exactly what you would expect in an album named Uncle Scam. Luckily though, it’s a lot better than an album containing songs named “This is War,” “Nazi Scum” and “Stand Up Fight Back” has any business being. It really reminds me of The Pist in parts. [...]
Old Wives – “See you in Hell” (Self Released)
Old Wives – “See you in Hell” (Self Released) – Are you fucking kidding me, another pop punk band from Canada? There is one hell of a great pop punk scene going on in Canada! The Old Wives I believe were formerly titled Old Wives Club for those keeping score. Call them what you want, [...]
The Varsity Weirdos – “Can’t Go Home” (It’s Alive Records)
The Varsity Weirdos – “Can’t Go Home” (It’s Alive Records) The coolest thing about this album is that not only do you get the twelve songs from “Can’t Go Home”, but you also get a second, ten song disc with the songs from their 3 prior It’s Alive Records 7” records (Fly me up to [...]
Beantown Boozehounds – “Pour Another Round” (Sailors Grave Records)
Beantown Boozehounds – “Pour Another Round” (Sailors Grave Records) Do you like Celtic punk songs about drinking? If your answer was no, stop reading. If you’re still reading, your answer was yes and you will love this album! I won’t bore you with details about who they sound like or their influences. If you like [...]
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)
