More punk rock than you can (proverbially) shake a stick at.
If I had to accurately describe my reaction in one word after listening to The Dopamines Tales Of Interest, it could be summed up as this: “Whoa.” The fourth studio album and the first in 5 years from these Cincinnati, Ohio punks, I’ll admit that Tales Of Interest (yes, it’s a Futurama reference) sort of […]
Well, 2018 certainly started off strong with a surprise album release from Jeff Rosenstock shortly after his secret set with PUP in Philadelphia. As is tradition with the man who pretty much pioneered it with his Quote/Unquote Records, the album POST is pay what you want through his Bandcamp and label website. His 3rd solo […]
I can’t believe it’s already 2018 and time to post top 10 best of lists. 2017 was a turbulent year for the US and much of the world, but also personally for me. I didn’t get to check out as much new music or make as many posts as usual due to a concussion I […]
It’s been a few years since I’ve last seen California’s powerviolence turned post-punk band Ceremony. When they announced that they would be playing two shows at Philly’s PhilaMOCA (an interesting, intimate space that once served as a showroom for mausoleums) I knew it would sell out quickly so I grabbed a ticket for the first […]
For as long as I’ve been listening to Converge (some time around when Jane Doe came out, early 00s), it’s pretty astonishing that I’m only seeing them for the first time in 2017. On a chilly Saturday night, I headed to Philly’s Union Transfer to catch the Massachusetts metal-tinged hardcore band wrapping up their tour […]
What up peeps? It’s been a busy month for me hence the lack of posts, including a bunch of shows I went to, traveling out west a bit, etc) but I’ve been going to a bunch of shows in the past week. This past Friday I headed to Philly’s infamous First Unitarian Church basement to […]
Damn…I’m a bit late on this, but I wanted to post about it anyway so fuck it. A few weeks back I headed to Philly’s center city bar Milkboy in order to catch San Francisco punk veterans Swingin Utters. Even though it was a Friday night, I wasn’t really sure what to expect in terms […]
New Brunswick, New Jersey’s recently reunited Sticks and Stones isn’t very well known outside of the Garden State, but chances are you’ve heard references, influences, or songs by the band even though they’ve been broken up since the 90s. Vocalist Pete Ventanonio went on to form the World Inferno Friendship Society under the moniker Jack […]
Fuck you! Get pumped! Milwaukee based pop-punk dudes Direct Hit recently teamed up with New Orleans melodic hardcore punks PEARS to release Human Movement, a split just released earlier last week on Fat Wreck. Any reader of this site knows I’m a pretty big fan of both of these bands, with PEARS being one of […]
Fun fact: when I was just a pissed off youth in early high school right around when Today’s Empire, Tomorrow’s Ashes came out in 2001, I wrote to Propagandhi asking them to please come play a show in the northeast US, to which they essentially said that one of these days, they will. It wasn’t […]