The Tossers – Emerald City – Music Stream June 27, 2013 Fun, energetic, trust-worthy, with tin whistles, fiddles, and hearty sing-a-longs. Emerald City doesn’t disappoint, nor break any new ground.
Bad Religion – Fuck You – Music Stream June 25, 2013 Immaculate production, fast-paced, quality skate punkpop, layered whoa-ohs, and scathing cultural criticism, it’s all here in spades.
Paramore – Now – Music Stream June 20, 2013 I’ve got a huge soft spot for Paramore’s unfailingly earnest and polished punk pop, and especially the incredible vocals of Hayley Williams.
The Bronx – Ribcage – Music Stream June 17, 2013 Songs like “Ribcage” are nestled amongst other paeans (or laments?) to blown paychecks, desperate times, and unrealized dreams.
The Night Marchers – All Hits – Music Stream March 6, 2013 Four years since their debut, huffing blues rawk daily, three quarters of Hot Snakes are back in sweaty black as The Night Marchers.
Bad Brains – Into The Future – Music Stream February 20, 2013 30 years in, do you really expect Bad Brains to blow your mind? In the early ’80s, they raged, dropping jaws. In 2012, well, they have some new songs.
Aspiga – Every Last Piece – Music Stream January 22, 2013 Seven song debut from this New Jersey punk band. Inconsistent vocals but chunky bass, lively tempos, and some solid melodies and good breakdowns.
We Are The Union – I Want You To Hit Me As Hard As You Can – Music Stream December 21, 2012 Horns and upstroked guitars scattered about, so anyone averse to such things, beware. Comparisons to mid-’90s pop punk is inevitable.
The Ridgelands – No Luck At All – Music Stream December 3, 2012 The Ridgelands are straight-up skate punk from Chicago, and Corey Webster Must Die!!! is their debut full-length (on the label set to release new Vindictives).
Samiam – Sunshine – Music Stream November 30, 2012 Samiam were emotional punk before there was such an awful title, and before terrible boy bands made the genre such a joke.