Mike Park – Smile
I’m not sure how many of you know this, but Mike Park (yes, the same Mike Park of Asian Man Records, Skankin Pickle, Bruce Lee Band, etc…) last year released a new album. It’s called Smile and it features 12 family-friendly songs for children (and cool adults). It has been a go-to album for rides (Read more…)
Shambles – Shambles EP
I got a tweet from the dudes in Shambles about a week ago pestering me about (probably an email that I deleted) listening to and reviewing their debut EP. Lucky for them (and me, I guess) I actually took the time to listen to 15 seconds of the first song on the EP and liked (Read more…)
Gunner’s Daughter – Trust Us When We Tell You EP
Last year my friends in Gunner’s Daughter released the hard-charging Trust Us When We Tell You EP and I totally didn’t write about it. I don’t feel bad about it (okay, maybe I do) but I didn’t write about a lot of music in 2011. Trust me when I tell you (see what I did (Read more…)
The Gooningtons
A few nights ago I was driving around downtown Chicago with Ryan (he was actually driving though) and he said something like, “Have you heard the Gooningtons?” I hadn’t, so he proceed to play Welcome To Goonington Beach! and blow my mind. He also explained verbally what’s documented on this pop punk message board thread. (Read more…)
August Premier – Happy Miserable
With all the high-profile punk reunions of the past few months and years combined with the band’s relative obscurity, it would be easy for most to overlook the reunion of Chicago’s own August Premier. And that, my friends, would be a bad thing. I’m not really sure of the whole story about the reunion, but (Read more…)
Bro. Stephen – Baptist Girls
Bro. Stephen is the name that (Stephen) Scott Kirkpatrick records under and (lucky for all of us) he’s just released a new album called Baptist Girls which is fucking brilliant, if you like that sort of thing. It was recorded primarily in a converted chicken coop in rural Indiana but you’ll find no clucking or (Read more…)
First post of the young year
Howdy folks! This is just a test post so I can properly tweak the new layout. More posts coming very very soon. I promise! If you don’t believe me, that’s OK, but you should. OK great. Let’s get one thing straight (div test) Some text is better than no text at all, right? Yeah, I (Read more…)
