I have to admit, besides having an awesome name, I was still a little skeptical when I first received Crucial Dude’s debut album 61 Penn. Pop-punk is a tricky genre to do right, and I am a stubborn listener. Rest assured though, these Crucial Dudes deliver. Playing 10 songs in approximately 20 minutes, 61 Penn […]

This was one of the first image results for “Long Island”. I’m now terrified. What up trusty housewives readers? For you dudes/dudettes in the States (the colonies for you British homies out there), I hope you all have a kickass Memorial Day weekend. I’ll be heading up to Long Island to visit some friends, praying […]

It’s funny how an album or song can take you back to a very specific place and time. I remember jamming out to the Impossibles “Brick Bomb” EP my freshman year of college (8 years ago, damn…) while skating, and having the song “Oxygen” pretty much sum up everything I was feeling: homesick, missing NJ, […]

I really dig crossover thrash, but a problem I often run into when listening is bands pursuing too much of the metal roots as opposed to the punk side. And if the vocals are more growling like metal, then fuck that. This unfortunately leaves me with a limited number of crossover bands I listen to […]

I’ve been a pretty big fan of Bedouin Soundclash for a while now, ever since they released “Sounding A Mosaic” back in 2004. After their prior and personal favorite release of “Street Gospels“, I was pretty excited to check out their latest release “Light The Horizon”. In all honesty, I’ve actually been sitting on the […]

If my mp3 player was able to keep track of play counts, it would tell you the amount of times I’ve listened to the Cobra Lung / Piss boys split has to be nearing triple digits. It’s just so damn good and also a quick listen so I can always squeeze it in (that’s what […]

Lighten Up record release show? No way I was missing and not losing my shit at this one, even if I was getting an MRI earlier in the day. I headed out to the DBAJ house and caught the 4 bands playing for the night. No Lessons Learned:First up were Philly’s own No Lessons Learned. […]

Over the past 2 years, Philly’s own Lighten Up have become one of my favorite hardcore bands around. With their release of “Absolutely Not”, I was blown away by their melodic hardcore. Recently I checked out their earlier “I’d Rather Be Snoring” EP, and while a bit different, it’s still solid. Released back in 2007 […]

Once in a great while, a show will do something amazing for my health. I can only think of a few instances where I truly needed the show (Give Up The Ghost back in 2003 and Smoke or Fire back in October), and last night was one of them. Incredibly stressed and on the verge […]

Holy crap things have been crazy on my end here, hence the delay of posting. Anyways, on Friday night, I headed out to South Philly to catch Cobra Lung play a basement show, fuck yeah dude. Nona: First up was a three piece, female fronted indie influenced punk band from West Chester called Nona. They […]