Without knowing anything about Syracuse Me except that they’ve got a ridiculous name, I can tell you that their EP Out With The Old, In With The Dudes sounds exactly like you imagined it would; music made by testosterone-filled teenage boys. Even so, let me just state that it actually a somewhat entertaining listen. [...]
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No Harm Done – Escape
No Harm Done was a band from Deltona, Florida that played its last show on August 19th, 2009. It’s too bad because their third (and final) album Escape was released in 2008 and is full of some awesome hardcore pop punk hybrid that reminds me a little of (maybe) Set Your Goals. Others [...]
Paint It Black – Surrender 7″
Paint. It. fucking. Black. Really, what can I say about this band other than frontman Dr. Dan Yemin should need no introduction to anyone reading this blog, right? Remember bands like Lifetime and Kid Dynamite? Okay then. Surrender (released on Fat Wreck) is the second 7”/digital EP that Paint It Black released in [...]
Title Fight – The Last Thing You Forget
So last year I raved (read the review here) about the debut 7″ from Kingston, Pennsylvania’s Title Fight and the poppy melodic hardcore that filled up the wax. I’m a Midwesterner and this just reeks of Eastern seaboard. Title Fight’s sound is gritty, fast, and makes me long for the days when I [...]
Latin For Truth – Eleven Eleven
Latin For Truth and their album Eleven Eleven is really really good but flawed. It’s like a combination of Living With Lions, New Found Glory and some good but semi-ridiculous pseudo-heavy East coast-y hardcore parts. I guess it’s posi popcore. There’s some great riffage and some killer melodies, but on more than [...]
Four Year Strong – Explains It All
Does an entire covers album full of 90’s alternative radio hits sound like a good idea for a hardcore-influenced pop-punk band? I didn’t think so either, but that’s exactly what Four Year Strong’s latest release, Explains It All is. Bad move space cadet. Now before you judge me, know that this isn’t a [...]
Strike Anywhere – Iron Front
How good is Strike Anywhere? I mean, seriously? Their new album Iron Front (the band’s first since 2006’s Dead FM) is full of potently blistering melodic hardcore punk. It isn’t anything you haven’t heard before from Strike Anywhere, but Iron Front is razor-sharp; more focused and biting than anything else the band [...]
Polar Bear Club – Chasing Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany is the city where The Beatles cut their teeth in the early 1960’s and has, thus, become somewhat of a mythical place in the history of rock music. So even though that isn’t the context that it’s presented in here on Polar Bear Club’s latest, Chasing Hamburg, it almost makes sense that [...]
Coalesce – Ox
Writing about heavy music and not sounding (at least marginally) like an idiot is a difficult thing for me. I mean, how many times can you use words like “crushing,” “thunderous,” “dense,” and “complex” before it all starts to read the same? That being said, I’m going to try to do the impossible [...]
Police & Thieves – Amor Y Guerra
Amor y Guerra is a collection of Police & Thieves’ three EP releases up to this point along with a few previously unreleased songs. The DC band features ex-members of Worn Thin and plays straightforward hardcore that’s a little melodic without really being melodic at all. Not that there is anything wrong with [...]
