Stretch Arm Strong – Lollipop Magazine

Initial’s Catalog Sampler – Disc Number Three – Review

August 2, 2002

Focusing more on the labels they distribute than their own roster, this is a cross-section of all that is ripping mad in the hardcore/emo scene.

This is Solid State – Volume 2 – Review

February 22, 2002

All of the sweaty, distortion masters of metal: Stretch Arm Strong, Blindside, and Born Blind balance out the equation by providing finger-pointing material.

Too Legit For the Pit – Hardcore Takes the Rap – Review

June 4, 2001

Mostly white guys with pants that don’t fit, wallet chains, and ball caps who don’t know dick about the ghetto or the crush of constant prejudice. Some gems.

Stretch Arm Strong – Rituals of Life – Review

September 1, 1999

Plenty of gang shouts and breakdown parts to warm your high school bully’s heart, but there’s also enough “sad, in an ‘Orion’ by Metallica way” in the riffs.