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).
Hidden closer “Care of Me” is an odd duck, even on a political punk rock album littered with horns and strings and piano and driving anthems and group shouts.
Propagandhi get more metal as time goes on, but hey, extreme conditions demand extreme responses. The lean, thrash-y “Failed States” is a boot right to the jaw.
Celtic punkers Flatfoot 56 bring the bagpipes to your ears. If their driving, aggressive sounds are familiar, you may’ve heard their music in Sons of Anarchy.