Greg Pratt

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Knuckle Puck are leading the new generation of pop punk in ‘Shapeshifter’

Knuckle Puck Shapeshifter ROCKS LIKE: Seaway, New Found Glory, the Wonder Years WHAT'S DIFFERENT: Chicago’s Knuckle Puck were poised to lead this generation of pop-punkers before their debut, 2015’s Copacetic, even dropped. And leading they are, this time with a heaping dose of maturity (the somber opener “Nervous Passenger”) and songs that flirt with a […]

Rebuilder’s 'Sounds From The Massachusetts Turnpike' shows different sides to pop punk

Rebuilder Sounds From The Massachusetts Turnpike ROCKS LIKE: Knuckle Puck, the Ataris, the Gaslight Anthem WHAT'S DIFFERENT: Boston’s Rebuilder have slowly been working on creating a body of work that shows different sides to pop punk. This EP has all their usual signifiers—the organ, the Blink-meets-Gaslight vibe (that still veers way more Blink)—but damned if […]

Teenage Bottlerocket reinvent the covers disc with 'Stealing The Covers'

Teenage Bottlerocket Stealing the Covers FILE UNDER: Obscure punk covers ROCKS LIKE: Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Ramones, Bracket WHAT'S DIFFERENT: For this album, Wyoming punks Teenage Bottlerocket reinvent the covers disc, taking material only from bands that they’ve personally come across during their 15 years of rockin’ out. So you’re not getting punk classics here, you’re […]

Mastodon show flexibility in new 'Emperor of Sand'

Mastodon Emperor Of Sand FILE UNDER: Trailblazing Prog-metal ROCKS LIKE: Atheist, the Mars Volta, ZZ Top WHAT'S DIFFERENT: There is only one band who can go from extreme metal to classic rock and somehow make it sound seamless and that band is Mastodon. On “Steambreather,” they show a wildly increased confidence exploring their classic-rock sensibilities […]

With no secrets left to tell, NOFX get personal on 'First Ditch Effort'

[Photo credit: Joe Leonard] When it came time to put together their 13th album First Ditch Effort, punk rockers NOFX found themselves in an odd spot. Having recently released their tell-all (and we mean all) book The Hepatitis Bathtub And Other Stories, the band realized that all their dirty laundry was out in public. So, […]

“No one was allowed to fingerbang it”—the brutal truth behind NOFX’s tell-all book

[Photo courtesy Ben Garcia] NOFX have been through a lot during their long history as a band. Like, really: a lot. Their new book, The Hepatitis Bathtub And Other Stories, details it all and does so in true, painfully honest NOFX fashion. Each chapter is straight from the mouth of one member as they go […]

Emo pioneer Garrett Klahn goes solo

Garrett Klahn Garrett Klahn There's an incredibly powerful moodiness throughout this debut solo album from Garrett Klahn (Texas Is The Reason, Solea, Atlantic/Pacific, New Rising Sons). And while some songs have a certain Midwest old-school, emo twang that brings prime TITR to mind, it’s the unexpected touches that elevate things here: “Are We Alright” has […]

Anti-Flag prove to be hard-hitting punk-rockers in new album

Anti-Flag Cease Fires Back in 2013, Pittsburgh political punkers Anti-Flag released a limited-edition subscription series of 7-inches called 20 Years Of Hell. The records consisted of re-recorded versions of old tunes, as well as a few unreleased ones. But the band were not looking to revisit their more well-known songs. Instead, they hit songs they […]

Anti-Flag look back on their past with new Cease Fires collection of re-recordings

Long-running Pittsburgh political punks Anti-Flag had a good enough 2015 with the release of  American Spring, but they're ending the year with a little something extra. Cease Fires is a collection of re-recordings previously released as the 20 Years Of Hell 7-inch subscription series in 2013 (plus a couple unreleased tunes, which absolutely rule). Confused? […]
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