Long Island thrash metal band, This Is Hell will release a new limited 7″ single titled The Enforcer on I Surrender Records on February 19.  Guitarist Rick Jimenez said these songs are different than previous This Is Hell releases in that the band was pushing the boundaries of what they’ve done before and that the riffing is on a level they [...]

Hailing from North West Indiana, Native is comprised of four friends who came together after realizing they were each the most serious about music in each of their former high school bands. The guys decided to retire their childhood groups and instead come together to form Native in the Summer of 2007. Word of mouth [...]

Chicago, Illinois is a city that is no stranger to emo and punk heavies.  Braid, Smoking Popes, Alkaline Trio and the list goes on and on.  Rising indie/emo band Dowsing are keeping the legacy alive as part of the Count You Lucky Stars roster.  With a split with Parker and the It’s Still Pretty Terrible [...]

The members of Diamond Youth share a common back catalogue of bands who have inspired and defined their developing years as artists, and those influences decorate their sound like merit badges.  From Weezer to Queens of Stone Age and the Beach Boys, their admiration of timeless and arena-worthy rock rock music mixed with their own [...]

In Fall 2011, the probably love child of Har Mar Superstar and T-Pain, The Nightbeast, reemerged with his sophomore EP, You’re Welcome. The follow-up to his debut, Inside Jokes For Outside Folks (which featured contributions from dudes from Punchline, Hawthorne Heights and even Say Anything’s Max Bemis), the LP is a effervescent, celebratory romp featuring [...]

Now, Now, Minneapolis trio, who has captured the attention of NPR’s All Songs Considered and The Onion with their inviting, angular and seductive sound, are heading out on a run of fall tour dates with Motion City Soundtrack and Jukebox The Ghost supporting their sophomore album, Threads.  Not to be overlooked, Threads was released in [...]

If you are living in a dangerously hot part of the world, you may not cease and desist from checking out Chicago quartet, California Wives, and their album Art History. With their debut dropping via Vagrant, and produced by Claudius Mittendorfer (Interpol, Neon Indian), these white-hot up-and-comers spin together the a sound that earns comparisons [...]

  I Was Totally Destroying It drop their new album Vexations on Aug 21 via Greyday Records.  For those not already in the know,  this Durham, NC combo, which includes ex Sorry About Dresden (Saddle Creek) members and male/female co vocals deliver a heady work of dream-pop/punky power-pop.  The cherry on top of this piece [...]

  When Cleveland, Ohio’s Worship This! released their video for the song, “Michigan Ocean,” from The Nard Years 7” that dropped via Messy Life Records in January I probably watched it 12 times in a row.  There’s no storyline, explosions, animation or naked ladies, just four average dudes playing exceptional, heartfelt hardcore inspired punk in [...]

Cohoes, New York’s Self Defense Family (formerly End of a Year) are a band who first gained momentum through a full-length on seminal hardcore label Revelation Records.  Following the release, the band released EPs and slips on a dozen labels in half-a-dozen countries, and spent years on the road visiting every corner of the globe.  [...]