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Against Me! 23 Live Sex Acts As Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace points out in one of this disc’s song introductions, it’s been nearly 10 years since her band’s previous live album (Americans Abroad!!! Against Me!!! Live in London!!!) was released. 23 Li... Read More ...

Topping the runaway success of 2011’s Megalithic Symphony was a task AWOLNATION creator Aaron Bruno did not take lightly upon entering the studio to create his second album. Written, performed and produced entirely by Bruno, RUN is the result of the California songwriter’s years of very private work that he’s excited to finally share with listeners. Bruno discussed ...

Thomas Giles Modern Noise Despite the heavy-handedness of the second solo album by Thomas Giles, the alter ego of Between The Buried And Me’s vocalist/keyboardist Tommy Rogers, the 46-minute epic opus ends with Nintendo sounds of the title-track closing song, so you know Modern Noise isn’t all serious gloom and doom. What we do ...

Tim Barry Lost & Rootless Honesty and integrity go a long way. Just ask Richmond, Virginia’s Tim Barry, a man who has spent the better part of his adult life singing punk, protest and folk songs of one kind or another. On Lost & Rootless, Barry’s sixth solo release, one of punk rock’s most beloved traveling troubadours has created an album that’s as humble as the wooden shed on his propert

Great Sale Day Wild And Chunky Great Sale Day is a new project by current and ex-members of U.K. hardcore bands such as Basement, Your Demise, Unholy Majesty and Breaking Point. But if you’re expecting mosh breakdowns and gang shout-alongs, that’s not the point at all here. Instead, w ...

Man Overboard Passing Ends EP Stopgap EPs can be a delicate matter that usually need to be handled with a certain amount of open-mindedness. Bands that are between albums take the chance to knock off a few songs, maybe try some things they wouldn’t put onto a full-length, and almost always chuck in some acoustic songs for good measure. Man ...

Rancid ...Honor Is All We Know Before we go any further: Yes, ...Honor Is All We Know, the first Rancid album in nearly six years, absolutely rules. But did any of you Rancid-heads out there ever have any doubt? Now let us tell you why it rules… The one big expectation with Berkeley’s favorite (or least most legit) punk-rock sons is that everything Rancid do needs to measure up to not only their c

Transit Joyride There’s something about the pattern of the past three albums by Boston indie punks Transit that feels like a band either on the cusp of something incredible or a complete collapse. There’s an easily identifiable willingness to push their sound on Joyride, which is admirable, but the band are also keenly aware of their melodic punk beginnings, which holds them from jumping off the T

Sunshine State Pour It’s unfortunate that most of the attention put on Sunshine State, will be surrounding drummer Warren Oakes’ former tenure with Against Me! (see, there we go again). The drummer-turned-restaurant owner made the difficult choice of leaving the popular punk band six years ago, but his new musical outlet is interesting enough to make at least some people forgot about Oakes’ former

Various Artists Red Scare Industries: 10 Years Of Your Dumb Bullshit It’s hard to believe that Red Scare Industries has already been around for 10 years, but here we are with their 10 Years Of Your Dumb Bullshit compilation, featuring 17 new songs by some of their favorite roster bands throughout the past decade. Some ...

Moral Mazes Magic Tommy Jackson EP Any band featuring noted indie producer and former Jawbox guitarist/vocalist J. Robbins, as well as former Kerosene 454 drumming phenom Darren Zentek, will immediately raise some eyebrows for those who are familiar with the Dischord Records back catalog ...

The Holy Mess Comfort In The Discord Although they’ve hovered on the fringes of the gruff-punk scene so far, Philadelphia's the Holy Mess deserve more attention—and Comfort In The Discord, their latest album in an increasingly long line of releases, should be the one to get it for them. Recorded live ...

The Copyrights No Knocks EP Writing catchy music that sticks can be a real task, but it’s one that Illinois pop-punk four-piece the Copyrights have mastered throughout the past decade since their humble beginnings. Now several albums in, the band are back with No Knocks, a three-song EP on Fat Wreck Chords, which could be the start of a beautiful relationship between the perfectly paired band and

Pennywise Yesterdays When Pennywise brought singer Jim Lindberg back into the fold, it could have gone one of two ways. Either the band would come out blazing with a stellar new album that would make everyone say, “Zoli who?” or they would take a look at their storied punk-rock past and do some kind of ode to their beginnings. It’s prett ...

Islander Violence & Destruction With their roots firmly planted in the DIY hardcore scene, South Carolina’s Islander now face the precarious position of becoming a full-fledged rock band. With that comes some awkwardness, like vocalist Mikey Carvajal’s insistence on employing the many vocal tricks of one of his obvious influences, Chino Moreno. Done subtl ...

Madball Hardcore Lives The coolest thing about New York hardcore institution Madball, led by singer Freddy Cricien, is their fervent support of the scene that birthed them. Not only have they stayed true to their roots, delivering album after album of high-quality, breakdown-heavy hardcore, they’ve also served as mentors for the next generation of windmill-friendly New York (and other areas) tough

Rise Against return July 15 with their seventh album, The Black Market, but some may be surprised at the lyrical and musical direction of the Chicago punk band’s new offering. The quartet returned to the Blasting Room studio in Fort Collins, Colorado, with producers Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore and began the process of writing their most musically adventurous and lyrically personal album yet

The Front Bottoms Rose EP Still riding uncontrollably high off the potent fumes of their stellar 2013 album, Talon Of The Hawk, New Jersey’s the Front Bottoms are back with a stopgap EP of fan favorites from their rambunctious live sets. The ...

Nightmares Suspiria It’s amazing what a great vocalist can do for a band. That’s not to say the players in Atlanta’s Nightmares are slouches; in fact, Suspiria is one of the better modern metalcore albums in recent memory. But frontman Car ...

Junior Battles Rally In the vein of similarly awesome melodic Canadian punk bands such as Attack In Black and the Weakerthans, Toronto’s Junior Battles have come into fine form on their second album, Rally. The strength is in the band’s no-bullshit approach to wearing their influences on their sleeves. You can te ...