It’s cute, funny, retro new wave that still has respect for itself and the audience. The vocalists each have a specialty, and jump in when their time comes.
Top-notch, rip-snorting, fire-farting punk. Inventive guitar work, nice low-end diddling from the bass, and tight-ass drumming that may save a life some day.
They come from the expected hotbed of island roots music, Toronto, Ontario. Heh. They didn’t start a punk band to meet girls, they’re here for the music.
NY Rel-X revels in blood in lyrics and artwork, but the streamlined sound is actually very clean. Crisp, intelligible vocals face impressive brisk guitarwork.
Should just be called Manda, since it’s got no marbles. The album is perfect: Flawless, over-produced, cream-filled sweetness, like eating both Twinkies. Twice.
Classic mid-’90s fast punk from Jersey. Fans of NOFX and Strung Out’ll remember them. Fourth studio album. More political and socially biting than I remember.
East Coast punk rock, pure of spirit like Bouncing Souls, but with more consistent songs. A little gruff, but not all gargled glass or hard-living street punk.
They’re from Montreal, this is their Fat debut. They’re scruffy and dirty, but they’re Greenpeace punk, not ignorant anti-whatever or wall-punching punk.