Jason Schreurs

Various Artists The Thing That Ate Larry Livermore Larry Livermore has long been King Midas in the world of pop-punk. Despite leaving Lookout! Records, the influential label he founded, in 1997, he’s always kept a keen eye on upstart U.S. punk bands. On the 16-song compilation The Thing That Ate Larry Livermore, Livermore joins forces […]

Downtown Struts Victoria! If punk rock had a musical version of comfort food, Downtown Struts would certainly be on the menu. From the opening strains of “Prologue,” it’s clear the 10 tracks on Victoria! are primed to combine all of the key ingredients in the melodic-punk recipe: some sprinkles of the Replacements-esque wild abandon and […]

I, Omega The Ravenous EP On The Ravenous, Los Angeles-based quintet I, Omega offer progressive hardcore, metalcore-lite, tech noodling, thrash riffing and even the occasional mosh breakdown. By the time these five tracks are over, it’s the musical equivalent of spinning around in a circle for 20 minutes: dizziness and general confusion. That’s not to […]

Various Artists Occupy This Album With 78 tracks on the physical version and 99 on the digital version, Occupy This Album could very well be the largest compilation since the glory days of the Slap-A-Ham Records Bllleeeeaaauuurrrrgghhh compilations. Except instead of cramming countless power-violence greaseballs onto 7-inch records with hand-assembled packaging, the folks at Music […]

Trioscapes Separate Realities Jazz-fusion is a far cry from AP’s usual coverage, but when it involves a member of prog-metalcore masters Between The Buried And Me, well, anything goes. First, there was the amazing Thomas Giles solo album last year from BTBAM vocalist/keyboardist Tommy Rogers; now, bassist Dan Briggs tries his hand at a side […]

The Tower And The Fool How Long The Tower And The Fool feature ex-members of Therefore I Am and Boys Like Girls, but the countrified rock on How Long is a radical departure from the bands these guys used to be in. The result is an album that’s equally harrowing and uplifting. Vocalists/guitarists Alex Correia […]

You Blew It! Grow Up, Dude The 46-second, eponymously titled opening track of Grow Up, Dude immediately sets the tone for this Orlando band’s debut full-length. Jangly guitars lead to soft-spoken vocals and the resulting outburst of “Pinball House.” You Blew It! then proceed to take the late-’90s emo formula (think Cap’n Jazz or early Promise […]

Thousand Foot Krutch The End Is Where We Begin The seventh album by Canadian rockers Thousand Foot Krutch is not only a return to musical form, it’s also a return to their industry roots—the band funded the album via Kickstarter instead of releasing it on their longtime label, Tooth & Nail. The change seems to […]

Tim Barry 40 Miler Tim Barry has had his share of songwriting success, from his earlier days in Richmond, Virginia, anthemic-punk institution Avail to his more recent, community-driven acoustic career. On 40 Miler, his fifth solo album, Barry breaks through the stripped-down trappings of “guy with guitar” and creates a landmark album with multi-instrumentation and […]