Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty Grace/Wastelands [4/5]
Having been replaced by Amy Winehouse as the odds-on favorite in most U.K.-pop-star dead pools, former Libertines leader Pete Doherty takes a breather from the largely forgettable ruckus he’s been raising in Babyshambles to explore a kinder, gentler variation on the sensibilities he’s been exploring all along. With Graham Coxon...
Various Artists
Various Artists Guitars That Ate My Brain [4/5]
For any of you who thought AP’s editors blew it by naming the Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez Lopez our best guitarist of 2008 in AP 248, take heart-there are enough 300bpm fretboard acrobatics in Guitars That Ate My Brain to make us rethink who’s king of...
Stigma
Stigma New York Blood [3.5/5]
Agnostic Front guitarist rocks the bar.
On his solo debut, Agnostic Front guitarist Vinny Stigma takes the mic, growls from his gut and reflects on 50 years of Hell’s Kitchen history. Metal-edged rockers like “NY Blood” recall his hard slog from a boozing street brawler to a road warrior...
The Mongoloids
The Mongoloids Assorted Music EP [3/5]
It’s somehow fitting that Mongoloids brace us for the aural war to follow by beginning their new album with the peaceful sounds of classical music. The juxtaposition with their Cro-Mags-esque blitzkrieg is jarring, though effective. Last year’s Time Trials hinted at what this Jersey band could do;...
Relient K announce tour dates
Relient-K’s new album Forget And Not Slow Down is all prepped to hit stores on October 6, and the band wants to make sure to sing some of their new songs on the road. They’ll be heading out this fall with Barcelona and Copeland. Check out the dates below and let us know where you’ll...
Lights posts new music video
Check out the video for Lights latest single "Saviour" and tell us what you think. "Saviour" Music Video
Paramore post teaser for new video
Check out the teaser/trailer for Paramore‘s Brand New Eyes. A clip from the video for the first single from that record entitled "Ignorance" is featured. Let us know what you think.
Impending Doom
Impending Doom The Serpent Servant [3/5]
Sure, the stigma attached to “Christian rock” has been gone for a while, but Impending Doom take the “Christian music can be anything at all” idea and run with it. If you didn’t know they were Bible-thumpers, they would sound like just another brutal death-metal band. In fact,...
Hellmouth
Hellmouth Destroy Everything. Worship Nothing. [3.5/5]
The Suicide Machines became progressively angrier and heavier during their final years spent on SideOneDummy, so it makes sense that ex-frontman Jason Navarro would churn out the most irate, incensed music of his career in Hellmouth. His new band play blistering metallic hardcore punk that sounds like what...