Say when “I’m with the band” new release is an enjoyable listen.Their sound is very much like your late 90’s collage rock sound meets MXPX. The songs have some pretty cool and fun lyrics but their music style is very far from what I normally enjoy.I am mixed on this album,I can tell that it’s a well done album that many people will enjoy but it is very hard for me to enjoy any collage radio type of band.This guys would be fun if your sitting in a bar with some friends, but I’m not sure how much people would enjoy the album.Fun live, not so fun at home.
Rain city shwillers “blood dripping from a six string” is a high speed intense Release.With many of their songs rocking; I would almost say these guys were “anthem punk” with every song charging you up to sing along or dance to. These guys make me very excited to check out the SeattleWA punk scene. This album comes complete with songs and lyrics, which many CD’s these days neglect to include and is something I always enjoy.I believe this is the first release by Rain city Shwillers.If it is then they are off to a great start.Either way I can’t wait for the next release.
This album was released in January of 2006.Unsure of the release date.
The third album from Canadian hardcore punk band Comeback Kid is a collection of old school hardcode anthems fused with more melodic and appealing melodies. If on the previous albums Comeback Kid played furious stuff incluenced by the New York style of hardcore, on this new record they change direction, playing softer stuff. At least to my ears.
“Broadcasting” has got songs like “Defeated” and “Industry Standars” that are seriously addicting, with melodic lines that stuck in your ears for days, and the metallic guitars fused with a serious hardcore attitutde. Not to mention, these guys can put up great, furious and energic stuff that will make you sing all along at the choruses of “Broadcasting…”, “Come Around” and “In Case Of Fire”, where the punk roots take their place.
Among all of the latest Victory Records releases, I think “Broadcasting” is the one that stands above all the others, so it’s surely worth to be checked out.
Tracklist 1 Defeated 2 Broadcasting… 3 Hailing On Me 4 The Blackstone 5 Industry Standards 6 Give’r (Reprise) 7 One Left Satisfied 8 Come Around 9 In Case Of Fire 10 Market Demands 11 In/Tuition
“Southern Weather” is the debut album by UnderOath’s drummer Aaron Gillespie’s new side project, The Almost. While he was writing and recording UnderOath’s latest album “Define The Great Line”, Aaron wrote eleven songs in his spare time, and these tunes are now put together to form a proper album.
Produced by Aaron Spinkle (of Pedro The Lion fame), “Southern Weather” is an album that takes you anywhere in the music today: from the pop rock of the first single “Say It Sooner”, with its catchy harmonies in the chorus, to the rock and rolling of “Southern Weather”, with its infectious guitar riff, to the semi-acoustic “Amazing, Because It Is”, this album is a true statemant of Aaron’s life: the search of something more, the realization of a life and the roots of his own life. It’s not a case he comes from the south and he dedicates this album to the place where he comes from.
The Almost is with no doubt the most exciting rock band around the world today: young kids full of passion, searching for their place in the world, like thousands and thousands of other people. This is what makes The Almost so special: that they tell stories everybody can relate to.
Fat Wreck Chords is releasing the brand new split by Uk punks Citizen Fish and American anarcho punx Leftover Crack. Introduced by a split seven inch released early this year (and that can be purchased here), this “Deadline” split is the final release.
I never heard a lot of Citizen Fish before because I am not a huge fan of their genre, and even tough they helped creating and spreading this mix of punk and ska, together with Subhumans, I never found the time to get into them. Their seven songs on this album are too punk rock for my guts, but I must say they are really dirty rotten and true. They have a bucnh of new songs like “Money” (which is a Choking Victim’s cover) and “Back To Square One” and they also cover the Leftover Crack song “Clear Channel (Fuck Off)”, but I am just sorry that instead of naming Rancid in one line they changed the original lyrics? Why then?
Leftover Crack is the real deal. I fell in love with Choking Victim and I also fell in love with the previous works of this band, on HellCat Records and Alternative Tentacles Records. The funny thing is that these guys sound punk rock, but they are catchy. Catchy as the devil. The new songs, like “Baby Punchers” and “…And Out Comes The N-Bomb” are strong statements towards the society of these days, and their cover of Citizen Fish’s “The Super-Market Song” sounds awesome, with it’s ska punk rhythms. They also cover the Subhumans’ song “Reason For Existence” and they do it in their classic punk rock way.
I think if you love old school punk rock, this split is your thing. If you don’t love old school punk rock, but want to learn more about the world of today, this is your thing, too.
PS: this CD comes out packaged in a very nice digipack format, and I love the artworks inside.
Tracklist 1 Working on the Inside 2 Money 3 Meltdown 4 Getting Used to It 5 Back to Square One 6 Join the Dots 7 Clear Channel (F*ck Off!) 8 L.O.C Intro (B.D.C) 9 Baby-Punchers 10 Genocidal Tendencies 11 …And Out Comes the N-Bomb 12 Life Causes Cancer 13 World War 4 14 Supermarket Song 15 Reason for Existence
Everybody Else is a trio formed in Los Angeles, and after some adventures, break-ups, leavings of other bands and even more adventures if possible, they got together under this name, and are releasing their debut LP on The Militia Group.
This self titled album was produced by Rick Parker (of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Sugarcult fame) and it is filled with twelve rock and roll anthems. These guys play music with no intent of fitting in one music genre, and they reminded me of The Rolling Stones, but with a more punk rock attitude: songs like the pop rock of “Born To Do” or the dancing “Alone In The World”, together with the electronic beats of “Say Goodbye” are just as unique as they keep on being played on my stereo. The music, which comes out very intense and loud, is filled with the emotion that makes you feel like you were there with these guys, sweaty and filled with the energy they deliver.
Everybody Else adheres to only one orthodoxy: that a good song will trascend its genre, its time, its popularity. The joy in their music is as infectious as it is sincere, give this album a spin and you will understand why.
The Bled released their first full length album “Pass The Flask” on Fiddler Records some years ago, but it went lost since that record label closed down. Now, if you discovered The Bled with their Vagrant Records “Found In The Flood”, but want to find out how they played when they were younger, Vagrant is re-releasing “Pass The Flask” with basically a second disc.
There is not only “Pass The Flask” on this disc, but eleven more songs, for a total of 21 tracks. It’s quite amazing, since re-issues today are quite boring and do not come with a lot of new material.
“Pass The Flask” is quite possibly the best stuff The Bled ever released: it has anthemic, chaotic, passionate and sweaty post-hardcore tunes, where metallic guitar riffs leave their places to melodic vocal lines, but then they all got shaken together to create songs. “I Never Met Another Gemini” is the best song ever, while tracks as “Red Wedding”, “You Know Who’s Seatbelt” and “Sound Of Sulfur” are rock and rolling tunes for the new hardcore generation
The bonus tracks features two rare albums by The Bled: the “Ambulance Romance” demos and “His FIrst Crush EP”. On this old material, The Bled shows how they used to play different stuff back in the day. More metallic chords, with post hardcore influences where the slower, sick and suffocating parts take place
Tracklist 1 Red Wedding 2 You Know Who’s Seatbelt 3 I Never Met Another Gemini 4 Ruth Buzzi Better Watch Her Back 5 Sound of Sulfur 6 Porcelain Hearts and Hammers For Teeth 7 Get Up You Son of a Bitch, Cause Mickey Loves Ya 8 Spitshine Sonata 9 We Are The Industry 10 Nothing We Say Leaves This Room 11 His First Crush 12 Anvil Pinata 13 Swatting Flies With a Wrecking Ball 14 Glitterbomb 15 F is for Forensics 16 John Wayne Newton 17 Meredith 18 My Cyanide Catharsis (featuring Emily Long) 19 OK, But Here’s How It Really Happened 20 Hotel Coral Essex (original recording) 21 Lay On My Cot (K-Note Freestyle featuring MC JayRay)
The Ackleys (myspace) are a band from Birmingham, and their new five song EP is the follow up to the “Self titled” full length. I actually never heard this band before “Forget Forget Derive Derive”, but I promise I will try to get my hands on their previous EP.
Anyway, the first thing I wanted to say is that when you google for the word “Ackleys”, the first thing the search engine tells you is if you want to look for the word “Hackers”. Well, it’s stupid, but The Ackleys are hackers, actually. Not in a common sense. I think these four guys (two girls and two boys) are stealers of pop sound music to give us indie rock anthems. With a touch of pop, a lot of catchy melodies, and synthesized keyboards, The Ackelys deliver a strong, harmonic, and powerful pop rock sound that makes me feel good to be alive, for once in my life, when I listen to their tunes. Songs like “We’re Not Listning” and “Andy, Our Loss” are true, energic and without second means that it scared me: these musicians are strong, and are able to create incredibly catchy melodies in true indie rock fashion, where you start to think how good it is to dance all night in a garage listening to your favorite small bands, all sweaty with your best friends. This is the feeling I got from these songs, while they were played on my stereo.
This CD is packaged in an unique cardboard package that I actually had never seen before, so if you, like me, are suckers for artworks, get this now. Also on this EP there are two quicktime videos of the band so check them out!
Tracklist 1 Andy, Our Loss 2 We’re Not Listning 3 7 Days 4 Blank Mind Between The Traffic Lights 5 Can Of Ashes
Wolverines and The Sibling Project are two indie rock bands that joined their forces to create a split album made of ten powerful anthems of true indie experimentations.
Wolverines deliver six songs of intense indie rock devastation, where the pop melodies are fused with the rock and roll guitar rhythms. The vocal lines they deliver are absolutely incredible and sometimes are too original to get into them. Someone might label this guys as “post rock” or something, but I just believe songs like “Jubilation” and “Summers” are the best side that independent American music can show today.
The Sibling Project is an indie band that puts the strongest element of rock and fuses them with electronic orchestrations and pop elements, as catchy choruses and the vocals of singer Lindsey Ranck. This duo, made of Lindsey Ranck and her brother Danny, is able to stress pop elements in songs where structures are simple and easy listening, but with a very intricated and original mix of sounds, atmospheres and sunny melodies.
This self - released split album is the perfect release to discover two young, fresh and original acts in the indie rock music world: they deliver two different sides of indie rock, and this is one more reason to enjoy their efforts.
After some years of silence, The Snake The Cross The Crown is back with their sophomore release on Equal Vision Records. “Cotton Teeth” i- this new album is very different from the previous work “Mander Salis”, which was much more poppy incluenced and dynamic. The new album is more intense, deep and less direct than the classic pop lines of the previous stuff the band ever released. The new songs are deeper and it takes some more time to get into them.
The opening “Cakewalk” is a kind of alternative country indie rock anthem, where you will hear pop guitars, hand claps and . The acoustic guitars are a strong element present on all the songs of the record, with rhythms that start slowly and then grow faster and faster,
If you like indie rock acts like Sufjan Stevens, Joshua Radin and Limbeck, pick up “Cotton Teeth”, you won’t be disappointed by any song.
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