The Tossers – The Emerald City – Review 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.
John Wheeler – Un-American Gothic – Review June 27, 2013 Freshly-shaved Hayseed Dixie frontman John Wheeler releases his debut solo outing, offering a couple covers and 10 originals.
Generationals – Heza – Review June 26, 2013 New Orleans’ school chums Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer hop from Cure-inspired dance (“Boys Don’t Cry,” not the somber sobbers) to Passion Pit falsetto yippies.
Rotten Sound – Species At War – Review June 26, 2013 First-rate grindcore from Finland. Raw meat slab designed to keep the wolves at bay between the band’s 2011 album Cursed and their next full-length.
Deathfix – Review June 25, 2013 Ex-Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty and Blowoff’s Rich Morel offer up a small, diverse, often darkly reverbed collection of mature cool.
Bad Religion – True North – Review June 25, 2013 Immaculate production, fast-paced, quality skate punkpop, layered whoa-ohs, and scathing cultural criticism, it’s all here in spades.
Cancer Bats – Bat Sabbath – Bastards of Reality – Review June 24, 2013 We don’t (nor have we ever) needed a cover of a Black Sabbath song because the boys from Birmingham made them all perfect the first time.
The Ruby Suns – Christopher – Review June 24, 2013 Miss the ’80s goodness of Tears for Fears and Wham? Check out The Ruby Suns.
ASG – Blood Drive – Review June 21, 2013 These 12 songs are catchy, memorable, and sound like classics as soon as you hit play.
Dungeons & Dragons – Chronicles of Mystara – Review June 21, 2013 You just can’t compete with these two classics – Tower of Doom and Shadow Over Mystara – packaged together now in Chronicles of Mystara.