This show saved my life. For reals. Last night, on a last minute whim I headed out to North Philly’s dive “The Fire” to catch my favorite Boston turned Richmond band Smoke or Fire. The place had about 40 or 50 people in there watching it, and it made for quite an intimate show. Mayflower:I […]

(bonus points if you can name my school) Ahh homecoming 2010. I wasn’t sure this year if I was going to attend, as last year’s was kinda “meh”, but I am so fucking happy I did. As usual, avoided all sports games and simply partied with friends. Holy fuck I miss that place. Things were […]

After some debate, last night I headed out to Philly’s Electric Factory to catch Off With Their Heads, Bouncing Souls, and Bad Religion. Off With Their Heads I’ve seen Off With Their Heads a handful of times, but it’s always been in smaller venues or house shows (Play the OX again please!), so I was […]

None More Black’s “Icons” is the definition of an anticipated album. After the Jersey/Philly band released “This is Satire” in 2006, the band called it quits early in 2007, and played a free reunion show at a photo gallery in 2008. So here we are now with “Icons”, 4 years after their last release. So […]

Melodic punk rock is tough to do right. Add just a tad too much melody and you come off as completely poppy. Luckily, on their debut EP “This is Our Concern Dude”, Banquet’s mixes just enough melody and punk rock roots to keep me coming back and listening over and over. Coming from Jersey City, […]

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While for many Bad Religion was their gateway into punk rock, I personally never really got into the band. Sure, they were legendary, influential, blah blah blah… but I just never cared enough to really listen to them, up until about a year ago. And for some reason lately, I’ve really been on a Bad […]

On Friday night, I battled flooding in my neighborhood and headed out to West Philly’s Gold Coast Lounge to catch a little bit of the crack rock steady, Star Fucking Hipsters and Morning Glory. The bar was the most divey of dives I have ever been to (and completely awesome for said reasons). No stage, […]