If you want to feel old, take a deep breath and repeat after me: Caution was 10 years ago. If you want to feel older still, inhale again and grapple with this: Rise and Epitaph are becoming less distinguishable in content these days. They both release music from bands with haircuts imported from Japan’s most [...]

It’s June 2012 and I’m sprinting back into the house from the mailbox. Heading up the stairs I already start to tear open the envelope and by the time I make it back to my office, it’s not some kind of coveted piece of music in my hands but Rumpshaker #6. I’m a 32 year [...]

A record like this means WHITE LUNG has nothing to apologize for. Sorry, by WHITE LUNG is a very concise record. It gets in and gets out in 19 minutes. The way I tend to listen to Sorry is in transit. I’m not in one place or another, and because of the repeat all functionality [...]

Black Widow by BURNING LOVE is two songs long (with a total running time of 6:11), neither of which are named Black Widow. Presumably, the title refers to the lyric “black widow/blade of ‘em all” at the “Karla”, the song on side A. It’s apparently about a serial killer. I think? It’s unclear, but BURNING [...]

There’s a mismatch in my head of a hardcore project-band named THE ALLIGATORS that’s features famed-AGNOSTIC FRONT leader Roger Miret and is backed by the rhythm section of the legendary California hardcore outfit INSTED. Maybe it’s the visual of Miret decked out in Lacoste attire as he holds someone in a headlock during casual conversation. [...]

My initial thoughts went something like this: Screamo kids playing psychotically happy pop-punk. The EP LP is exceptionally quick. It’s an LP, I guess, in that it feels like a whole thing, but it’s an EP in that there’s not enough music there to fill up a 12″. It’s raucous, so other people will call [...]

Ohio melodic hardcore band LIGHT YEARS delicately straddle their heavier influences and pop-punk desires on Just Between Us, a brand new five song EP that’s digitally paired up with their prior eight song release This Will Come Back to Haunt Me. There’s no screaming with LIGHT YEARS, just well sung lead vocals over bouncy, speedy [...]

“What separates the fury and the filthy in me?” Polarizing. That’s the crime of Bury Me Standing. Well, that and being uneven. But it’s worth a backward glance into THE EXPLOSION’s discography. Between Steal This, Flash Flash Flash and Sick Of Modern Art, THE EXPLOSION made themselves instantly recognizable as one of the best punk [...]