Luke Jaxon

Joey Ramone “…ya know?”   There’s no denying that Joey Ramone was one of the most important musical figures of the 20th century. His strange frame stood powerfully onstage, giving hope to all the ugly outcasts that they could someday do the same. The cruelest joke is that Joey Ramone, a man musically inspired by […]

Chixdiggit! Safeways Here We Come EP   It’s no secret to the underground that late-’90s-style pop-punk has really come back into vogue over the past few years. However, the exhumation of short, sad, silly songs about girls came at a time when Auto-Tuning vocals and quantizing drums was the norm in pop world. The result […]

Poor But Sexy Let’s Move In Together   When approaching an album that features the guitarist of seminal Washington, D.C., math-noise-pop geniuses the Dismemberment Plan (as well as two dudes from the underrated Travis Morrison Hellfighters), as a fan you would be wise not to expect a retread of those projects. But also as a […]

Crocodiles Sleep Forever Buried in fuzz and slathered in reverb, Sleep Forever could be Crocodiles making their bid for voice of the no-fi generation—or at least a plea for their noise to not get lost in a sea of, well, other noise. The one-two punch of album openers "Mirrors" (a gradually blossoming pop gem fueled […]

The Loud Wars "Creative music" has become a bit exhausting as of late. Artists either pile up so many epic cadences that they are robbed of value, or they ape lo-fi recordings in ways that seem more calculated than honest. So thank the fucking lord for So Many Dynamos, who just may bring us back […]

99 Songs Of Revolution: Volume I There is a dichotomy that exists among Streetlight Manifesto. While the ska-punk septet include four horns that are often blaring in opposite directions, their arrangements are meticulously crafted and intentional. Although their records appear to scream, "We don't give a shit what people think!" (the band are championing what […]