Nothington’s 2007 album, All In, was good and ended up taking the #12 spot on my best of list for that year, but I wasn’t expecting the band to mature and progress as much as they have here. Every single song on Nothington’s new album Roads, Bridges and Ruins is a goddamn sing-a-long anthem. [...]
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Like Bats – Demo EP
After reading what Will over at Sound As Language wrote (even though it seems to now be gone from his site) about these guys I knew I had to check ‘em out. Like Bats are a trio from Northwest Indiana that plays bouncy and melodic pop punk that’s melodic without being the least bit saccharine. [...]
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 [...]
An incomplete history of Chicago punk rock (vol. 26)
Wow, it’s be quite awhile since I’ve dug into my crates of old records and posted anything in this series, but it just felt like the right time for a little Chicago punk rock. I thought I’d share a little something from a little known band called Thirty Seconds Deep. I won’t go [...]
Dummy Room – Demo
On their 4-song demo, Dummy Room plays the sort of no-frills Chicago-style punk that I grew up listening to. The songs are short, fast, aggressive blasts of punk rock that are uncomplicated and raw but refreshing to hear amidst all the overproduction in today’s so-called “punk” scenes. If you like The Bollweevils or very [...]
The Gateway District – Some Days You Get The Thunder
The Gateway District is a pop-punk supergroup from Minneapolis that features current or ex-members of notable bands like (The Soviettes, The Salteens, Banner Pilot, Dear Landlord, Off With Their Heads, Rivethead, and American Monsters). Did you just shit your pants? Don’t worry, I understand, my 4 month old daughter does the same thing. So, yeah, [...]
Transit – Stay Home EP
Transit is a Boston-based quintet that, on their latest EP Stay Home, makes me want to do just that and stay home listening to these six songs all night. These songs are filled with unabashedly passionate emotional hardcore that’s got (for good measure) one foot still in the pop punk pool. The guitars are technical [...]
American Steel – Dear Friends And Gentle Hearts
Another of the recently released albums that’s been in near constant rotation around my house has been the latest from Oakland’s American Steel. The album, called Dear Friends And Gentle Hearts, sounds more like the band’s alter-ego Communique than anything else they’ve released as American Steel, and that’s a really good thing as I was [...]
Banner Pilot – Live 9/5/09 @ Ronny’s
I dragged the wife downtown (and good thing since she took these videos) to see the mighty Banner Pilot on their whirlwind three city record release tour for their new album Collapser. The band played a set that was short but sweet. Here are videos of two songs:
Overwinter
Losing Daylight
After The Fall – Fort Orange
Did you know that Fort Orange was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland and was on the site of the present-day city of Albany, New York? Did you also know that Fort Orange is the latest blistering album from melodic-hardcore band After The Fall who (non-coincidentally) call Albany home. While I wouldn’t classify [...]
