Nightmares for a Week's 2010 debut LP Don't Die was an overlooked gem, one of those releases that rarely seemed to garner negative criticism but struggled to gather the attention...
Jar was originally slated for an April 30 release, but Run For Cover digitally released it early as the result of a leak. --ed. Daylight are a band whose debut LP has been...
I didn't take much notice of Paramore until 2009's Brand New Eyes and even that album only garnered a listen to the song "Brick By Boring Brick." At some point or other I, like...
Some records don't feel important upon first listen. Sometimes the stars don't align like they're supposed to, sometimes the listener isn't in the right frame of mind, sometimes...
It's been 14 years since Alkaline Trio released their first full-length album, Goddamnit . In that time, they've toured the world, sold over a million records and expanded their...
It doesn't take an analytical genius to notice that Alkaline Trio have gone through two fairly distinct arcs in their career. Going from dingy Chicago basements and an, uh, trio...
VINYL FORMAT. Includes CD of the album. It's been 14 years since Alkaline Trio released their first full-length album, Goddamnit . In that time, they've toured the world, sold...
It is said that the best way to end boredom in Majorca during the winter months is to form a band. Beach Beach did exactly that and having been bought up on a diet of sun, sand...
Fierce Brosnan (great name, incidentally) play melodic punk rock with gruffish vocals, much in the same vein as Timeshares. Now for me to mention the former in the same sentence...
2012 marked the year that seminal post-punk rock band At the Drive-In announced that they would be getting back together for a handful of live dates including Coachella, Fuji Rock...
Any term that's been applied to both Rites of Spring and My Chemical Romance is clearly one over which there's little agreement. Alongside similarly bickered-over labels like...
It's been a while since Derek Archambault started teasing and toying with his solo act and seeing a lead vocalist, who's done so well with Defeater, actually procrastinate on this...
Spoken are akin to Deftones without the sultriness (“Don’t Go”) or Stone Sour without the anger (“Take Everything”), and they also navigate through some pretty murky lyrical...
There's a certain purity to Texas is the Reason that isn't afforded to other '90s emo bands. Jawbreaker, Sunny Day Real Estate, the Promise Ring, etc., all have a jumping off...
This change of focus does not mean that the Welsh quintet have eschewed hooks. They may go for a straight-up hardcore assault occasionally ("Grey," the title track), but the...
Funeral for a Friend have been one of those bands that never stuck to the same sound. They've traversed the hardcore-metal feel at times and gone the way of more melodic rock on...
Modern Baseball show their young age on Sports, especially lyrically, but musically they're wise beyond their years. This record resides somewhere between the quirky pop...
Blackball Records presents the 20th anniversary edition of Jawbreaker's Bivouac and Chesterfield King . Originally released in 1992, these groundbreaking records have been...
They never became a household name and people still think Face to Face or some other shitty "pop punk" band wrote "Chesterfield King", but Jawbreaker were a huge deal for a lot of...
Boys Like Girls showed up in 2005 with a major-label deal in hand, a debut album loaded with co-writes and a sound best described as “Holy shit, how are the All-American Rejects...
I wasn't a fan of EP 001 a few months back but I know that I'm waiting for EP 003 with bated breath. Hidden Hospitals knocked this five-tracker out the park. There's a stylish ebb...
Thank God they've come back. Plain and simple. I've always enjoyed the Casket Lottery and they've taken the best characteristics of Choose Bronze, Moving Mountains and Survival is...
Carly Comando has always been a poetic, sincere and beautiful soul that's made Slingshot Dakota highly enjoyable and admirable. There's a sweet allure draped over the duo's indie...
Anberlin struck the right chords with Cities and Never Take Friendship Personal but their last two records seemed a bit lacking. They weren't bad but didn't live up to the hype...
If you're a fan of the U.K. rockers Basement, strap yourselves in. Before they go on hiatus, they've left you something incredible. It's a near-flawless record and the swansong...
Soon enough in proximity for this extended play to be considered a honeymoon soundtrack in the wake of Just Married, Glocca Morra have abandoned their pensive musings for...
Best known as John Davis' band prior to Q and Not U and Georgie James, Corm was together from 1990 to 1997. Audio Flame Kit was the first and only full-length recorded by these...
FACT: emo pioneers Sunny Day Real Estate pretty much broke up in between all four of their albums. These dudes just could not get along, which bums me out since I consider their...
The first full-length record from the Death Cab and Postal Service frontman is eminently enjoyable, if not unquestionably brilliant.
Other cities, other plans; different friends, different dreams; former loves, former lives. After fifteen years in Death Cab for Cutie, Ben Gibbard didn't make his first solo...
In theory, a solo record from Ben Gibbard should be aces. While he’s steadily risen through the indie rock ranks with his band Death Cab for Cutie, he’s had some major artistic...
To those of you waiting in vulturous speculation over what might have been Ben (or, for the sake of Former Lives, Benjamin) Gibbard's post-divorce catharsis record: at ease...
For many, including myself, Triggerman might not initially whet their musical appetite, especially when one discovers that these songs were written in the early '90s and only...
The Wedding (fronted by former Letter Kills singer Matt Shelton) make their Tooth & Nail debut with an album that is strong, but arguably disproportionate. No Direction’s title...