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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.

Morning Glory – Care of Me – Music Stream

November 26, 2012

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 – Failed States – Music Stream

October 26, 2012

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.

Adolescents – Stage Diving Daisy’s Revenge – Music Stream

October 18, 2012

No introduction is necessary for punk kings the Adolescents, who offer up the perfectly formed gem “Stage Diving Daisy’s Revenge.”