Lollipop Magazine

Rotten Sound – Species at War – Music Stream

June 26, 2013

A raw meat EP designed to keep the wolves at bay until their next full-length.

Generationals – Put a Light On – Music Stream

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.

Deathfix – Transmission – Music Stream

June 25, 2013

Ex-Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty (here playing guitar and singing) and Blowoff’s Rich Morel (here playing keys and singing) offer up a small, diverse, often darkly reverbed collection of mature cool.

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.

The Ruby Suns – Kingfisher Call Me – Music Stream

June 24, 2013

Miss the ’80s goodness of Tears for Fears and Wham? Check out The Ruby Suns.

Cancer Bats – N.I.B. – Music Stream

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.

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.

Whitechapel – Vicer Exciser – Music Stream

June 20, 2013

They’ve gone on to greater things since their 2007 debut, The Somnatic Defilement, but “Vicer Exciser” is a good example of their early sound.

Moss – Horrible Nights – Music Stream

June 19, 2013

Southampton U.K.’s Moss – from the respected Rise Above record label – certainly earn the all caps of the “pure DOOM METAL” descriptor in their press release.

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.