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Fight Fair California Kicks Of all the current trends (read: gimmicks) infiltrating the scene today, surf pop is far from prevalent. California Kicks, Fight Fair’s debut full-length, might be a good indicator as to why. Although the hooks are fairly smooth, and the sunny, ’60s-influenced choruses are sometimes catchier than sin, there’s literally nothing that […]

The Most Beautiful Rookie Of The Year's fourth full-length harkens back to singer/songwriter Ryan Dunson's early days; back then, the North Carolina native operated ROTY as a solo project, favoring stripped-down, acoustic pop songs rather than the full-band styling of 2008's Sweet Attention. Solo once again, it seems Dunson is hoping to rekindle some of his […]

Every Avenue Ah! Ah! might be Every Avenue's third release, but the group's Fearless Records debut sounds like a lot of bands' early material: raw recordings of sophomoric arrangements that still yield some genuine diamond-in-the-rough moments ("Picking Up The Pieces"), setting the stage for future greatness. After all, you can pretty much hear by-the-book numbers […]

Hold Me Down Since the release of their debut full-length, Take Off Your Colours, in late 2008, British rockers You Me At Six landed a Stateside distribution deal with Epitaph Records along with stints on last year's Warped Tour and AP's Fall Ball. In that year-and-a-half span, the quintet have also successfully transitioned from relative pop-punk […]

I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart Say what you will about Butch Walker's day job. Sure, the pop production maven has written and produced hits for some less-than-credible musicians (oh, hey, Lindsay Lohan, what's up?), but in the end, Walker has always been able to separate his production work from his solo […]

The World We Know Ace Enders has never really been the conventional type. Sure, the ex-Early November leader oversaw four TEN releases in only four years back in the early 2000s, but it's important to remember that 2006's The Mother, The Mechanic, And The Path was three discs' worth of content. Add that to the array of […]

A Rocket To The Moon On Your Side It’s hard to believe that nearly a decade ago, a guy from South Florida with tattoos and a pompadour haircut changed music with just an acoustic guitar. Sure, Chris Carrabba didn’t invent the tender singer-songwriter tag, but the birth of Dashboard Confessional did much more than leave […]

Hit The Lights Coast To Coast EP With his band’s latest release, it takes Hit The Lights vocalist Nick Thompson less than a minute to declare, "No, I'm not sorry for a damn thing." And he shouldn't be. Since taking over the spot vacated by former singer Colin Ross in 2007, Thompson guided Hit The […]