Go Rydell – The Golden Age
Hey! You need to check out Go Rydell. They’re a melodic punk/hardcore band from Orlando, Florida and their latest album The Golden Age contains 10 fist-pumping songs that clock in at about 14 minutes. It’s blazing. Everything about this band reminds me of Kid Dynamite and Shook Ones and that (my friends) can never be (Read more…)
12 Days of Christmas MP3′s for 2010: Day 6
Not that it really has anything to do with this, but back when we were much younger and before we were married, the wife and I drove down from Indianapolis to Bloomington to see Sloppy Seconds at some club there. They were awesome as is their Christmas song, “Hooray For Santa Claus.” And if you (Read more…)
Dirty Tactics – It Is What It Is
The new album from Philadelphia, PA’s Dirty Tactics was released in May and is called It Is What It Is. You get 10 songs of ramshackle musical mayhem that begins with a 30 second sample from some movie I can’t place. Those listeners who get past that are treated to the following; some throaty shouty (Read more…)
Iron Chic – Not Like This
Long Island’s Iron Chic has an amazing album called Not Like This out now. You can get it as a donation-based download here. It’s gruff but ultra-fucking-melodic pop punk that slays and that I’d recommend for fans of Latterman, Dear Landlord, and general awesomeness. Don’t wait on this as it’s easily one of my favorite (Read more…)
Junior Battles – Junior Battles 7″
I was totally blown away mere seconds into the self-titled 7” from Toronto, Ontario, Canada’s Junior Battles. At their core these songs are fast-paced with catchy melodies, great vocal harmonies, solid memorable lyrics played with hearts on sleeves. Sounding like a cross-between early Fall Out Boy, The Weakerthans, and Cletus (strange, I know, but it (Read more…)
Hanalei – One Big Night
On this third full-length, Hanalei is (now again) the acoustic solo project of Brian Moss (The Wunder Years, The Ghost, Olehole) where he sometimes plays along with a laptop but sometimes alone. I actually met Brian (once) when my old band Allister played with the Wunder Years at some shithole in Colorado Springs in 1999. (Read more…)
None More Black – Icons
So the dudes in None More Black recently released a great new album on Fat Wreck Chords and I can’t stop listening to it. It is (however) a bit different than the band’s previous efforts. This new album, Icons, is a bit rougher and less easily catchy than I expected it to be. It’s a (Read more…)
RVIVR – LP
In case you didn’t know it, RVIVR is a pretty damn amazing band. On this, their first full-length, the band spits out the same sort of under-produced pop-punk that I loved on their Life Moves 7”. It’s the same sort of lovingly crappy punk I listened to as a teenager, except way way better. WAY! (Read more…)
12 Days of Christmas MP3′s for 2010: Day 1
It’s finally that time of year again. Tree trimming and decorating has begun and Black Friday is a thing of the past. So on the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree and a whole bunch of Christmas MP3′s… a lot of Christmas MP3′s. My daughter (Read more…)
