Brendan Manley

A Day To Remember Common Courtesy A Day To Remember are no dummies. It’s been a long, litigious three years for the band since releasing 2010’s What Separates Me From You, and after finally re-emerging victoriously from their high-profile lawsuit with Victory Records just this month, now is certainly not the time to drop a […]

Saves The Day Saves The Day Having finally completed Saves The Day’s dark, deeply ambitious and equally voluminous autobiographical concept-album trilogy with 2011’s Daybreak, frontman Chris Conley was suddenly free to write anything, for the first time in roughly six years. And he’s made the most of it: On Saves The Day, you can feel […]

Transplants In A Warzone Previous Transplants albums basically felt like a vehicle for Tim Armstrong and Travis Barker to step outside the punk confines of their full-time gigs (Rancid and Blink-182, respectively), dabbling with bits of funk, hip-hop and electronica. While those elements still exist to a smaller degree on In A Warzone, their first […]

August Burns Red Rescue & Restore Now a decade into their career, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, quintet August Burns Red have stated they are on a mission to revive metalcore from its self-induced coma of conformity, and their latest, Rescue & Restore (the title being a nod to said crusade), puts the band’s music where their collective […]

The Story So Far/Stick To Your Guns Split EP You get quite the sonic Captain’s Sampler platter within the space of just four tracks on the new split EP from the Story So Far and Stick To Your Guns, with each band contributing a new song and a cover to the EP. And while some […]

Daylight Jar Considering that up until recent history, Doylestown, Pennsylvania’s musical claim to fame was pop bad-girl Pink and Afro-sporting Stevie Wonder knockoff Justin Guarini (that guy who almost beat Kelly Clarkson on American Idol), it’s pretty incredible that these days sonic innovators Circa Survive and Balance And Composure both call D-Town home. And now, […]

Vinnie Caruana City By The Sea EP Vinnie Caruana has played a lot of acoustic shows over the past decade, and every one of those performances can be heard in City By The Sea, his masterful new six-song acoustic EP. Packed with more of Caruana’s ever-cutting lyrical prowess and a gritty, muscular vocal performance that […]

The Spill Canvas Gestalt Score another for Kickstarter. In the same year that we have a fine new Matt Pryor record to enjoy thanks to the revolutionary capital-raising web sensation, now there’s also a long-awaited new release from the Spill Canvas, after the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, quartet, formerly on Reprise Recods, raised $35,000 through […]

This Providence Brier EP Seattle rockers This Providence are making a go of it on their own since parting ways with Fueled By Ramen earlier this year. They recently formed the DIY imprint Magic Mike Records to issue Brier, a new four-song EP to tide listeners over until a proper full-length is complete. Between its […]