Sam Russo - Back To The Party
- by Tom Dumarey
Bad Cop/Bad Cop - The Ride
In a time of chronic rage, happiness is revolutionary.
Bad Cop Bad Cop has done angry. The band’s 2017 full-length, Warriors, was recorded in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election. The Los Angeles quartet’s new full-length, The Ride (Fat Wreck Chords, June 19th), shows what happens when you come out the other side of that anger.
Bob Nanna - Celebration States
New Granada Records (Pohgoh, Caithlin De Marrais of Rainer Maria, Gordon Withers) and acclaimed Chicago-based songwriter Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes, The City On Film, Lifted Bells) are excited to announce the Friday, July 10 release of Celebration States, the brand new, highly personal showcase – and first official album under Nanna’s own name – that details a major life shift for the seasoned musician: a full, all-acoustic LP recorded entirely on September 7, 2019, the day that would’ve been Nanna’s wedding anniversary.
Eastwood - The Old New
Belgium’s Eastwood has been around for 10 years in some shape, way or form but they didn’t really get serious about it until 2015.
Top 5 punk rock ‘How to’ albums & songs
Screeching Weasel - How To Make Enemies And Irritate People
Bad Moves - Untenable
Out May 29th (digital) and June 12th (physical) on Don Giovanni Records, Untenable is the sophomore full-length by Washington, D.C.’s Bad Moves.
It’s a record fired in the anxiety and exhaustion of our historical moment: 12 very personal and political songs about surviving in a perpetual state of crisis.
Fake Indians - The Pest
Releasing an album called ‘The Pest’ during a pandemic. You have to hand it to these guys, their timing isn’t perfect. But it could be worse. Can’t think of an example right now.
Local H - LIFERS
Thirty years after forming in Zion, IL, it is only fair to say that whoever is in Local H are indeed lifers.
Custody - II
Finland’s Custody is back with ‘LP2,’ and man, it is gorgeous!
PREMIERE: Oswald Park (The Creeps, Crusades) shares second single ‘Come Back Around’
Did you cry when Crusades called it a day? I understand. I mean, who releases an album as good as ‘This Is A Sickness And Sickness Will End’ in 2017 and then breaks up barely a year later? Downright brutal.