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 Boogers – Let’s Go! Review & Giveaway
On their website, The Boogers claim to be “the world’s most dangerous kids band.” They don’t play death metal so that might not be 100% accurate, but The Boogers do play some of the finest punk rock for kids I’ve ever heard. The band’s 2nd album Let’s Go! is filled with 13 songs of fast (Read more…)
A little band called Boxer
You might not know it but the first band signed by Vagrant Records was Boxer from Boston, Mass. The band’s one and only album, The Hurt Process was produced by none other than Face to Face’s Trever Keith and released by Vagrant on May 5th, 1998. It’s an under-appreciated but masterful slab of post-Lifetime post-hardcore (Read more…)
An incomplete history of Chicago punk rock (vol. 28)
I’m not sure what other “category” to put this post in, so it just sorta haphazardly ends up as part of this series. Just go with it. So on what was the sunny afternoon of December 23, 1997 the three guys in Allister (that’s me on bass, John on guitar, and Tim on drums) went (Read more…)
Mayflower – Second Best Sunsets
So you want to know about a really great band? A band so great they should have been on my year end list last year. Well, the band is called Mayflower and they’re from Syracuse. Their debut full-length, Second Best Sunsets was released last summer by the studs from Kiss Of Death Records their sound (Read more…)
A little band called Plow United
I first heard Plow United in 1996 courtesy of my freshman roommate and became an instant fan of their ramshackle East Coast thrash pop. We played the shit our of their second record Goodnight Sellout on his crappy turntable. So I ended up with both of Plow’s pre-breakup albums and a bunch of their split (Read more…)
Campaign – It Likes To Party EP
Simply based on the denim and beards they’re sporting on the cover of their newest EP It Likes To Party, the Atlanta-based punk quintet Campaign can’t be anything other than bad-ass. Luckily the music contained within backs ‘em up. The EP begins with some throat-shredding yells on “Rock Bottom Summer” that sound painfully atonal, but (Read more…)
The Atom Age – Kill Surf City
I was (and I guess I’m still a big fan of the classics) a big ska-punk fan in my younger years (not that it really has any bearing on this review) but just because a band features a brass/horn section it doesn’t mean they’re a ska band. In this particular case, The Atom Age is (Read more…)
Glory Bound – Glory Bound EP
This 8 song EP is a must-have for fans of gruff and sometimes folksy punk rock. I mean, it reminds me of Crimpshrine, early Against Me!, and other bands that have done this sort of thing before with a little (maybe) Defiance, Ohio and some Rumspringer thrown in for good measure. You’ve got catchy songs, (Read more…)
