May 31, 2007

Monikers Eat Your Young EP Don’t let the cover illustration of a ’60s housewife dining on her baby’s entrails fool you: There’s nothing especially dark or evil going on with Monikers’ debut EP. The opening track of this tuneful five-song effort sounds like something dropped in from the early days of post-punk-maybe Psychedelic Furs before...

Fake Problems Spurs & Spokes/Bull > Matador EP Naples, Florida-known for the Everglades, old people, white-sand beaches and hopefully soon, Fake Problems. The EP Spurs & Spokes/Bull > Matador compiles the band’s first 7-inch along with four re-recorded songs from the band’s self-released debut. This EP fuses different sounds and genres together to create a...

Capital Signal Corps [3.5/5] Long Island, you’ve been doing well for yourself lately. Capital provide just the kind of inspired melodic hardcore that Silent Majority brought to the table during their unfortunately brief career (which makes sense, since former SM singer Tommy Corrigan now fronts Capital). With gritty vocals and cascading rhythms, Capital will seemingly...

Fall Out Boy Infinity On High Unlike many of their peers, Fall Out Boy opted not to make a concept album for their second major-label release; instead, they decided to stretch the musical boundaries they helped draw both on 2003’s Take This To Your Grave and 2005’s now-über-massive From Under The Cork Tree. From the...

Smoke Or Fire This Sinkin Ship

Lifetime Lifetime [4/5] When Lifetime first announced they were getting back together for good in November 2005, one of the first comments on Punknews.org was “Yippee!!!!” To demonstrate how quickly the scene can turn on you, one of the first comments written the following March when the band announced their signing to Decaydance, Pete Wentz’s...

Post-hardcore hardliners had plenty to celebrate this past December when the mighty Glassjaw decided to hit the road for a round of shows in the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard. The “alumni lineup”-singer Daryl Palumbo, guitarist Justin Beck, bassist Manny Carrero (Saves The Day) and drummer Durijah Lang (Classic Case)-played 13 shows to rabid crowds who...

There are times at the AP Skyscraper where we agonize for hours over which of today’s up-and-comers should be paired with one of their influential rock heroes. Hooking up Motion City Soundtrack guitarist Josh Cain with former Weezer bassist/current Rentals CEO Matt Sharp was a complete no-brainer. Sharp, a fellow bespectacled Moog synthesizer enthusiast, gladly...

Who cares about internet leaks, sophomore slumps and strange tourmates? BLOC PARTY are doing their best to make it through the travails of their generation. Story: Dan LeRoy Photos: LeAnn Mueller Kele Okereke is in the midst of a passionate rant about his band’s new album, but not a word he...