I don’t think the guys that make up Direct Effect care much about what style of music they are playing. All they are worried about is whether it sounds good with the amps turned up to eleven.

J. Roddy Walston and his Business are Tennessee natives that have already been around the block.

The follow-up to Reptile Youth’s self-titled album comes with a more artistically approved title.

“Year Of The Snake” finds Silver Snakes taking the post-hardcore vibes of their debut and then expanding them into these moody as hell, grunge-drenched tunes that sound pretty damn impressive.

On Eagull’s self-titled album, these five guys from Leeds sound frustrated as fuck yet manage to wrap their frustrations into catchy post-punk tunes that owe as much to Joy Division as they do to W

Chris Carrabba once broke teenage girls’ hearts with Dashboard Confessional and had them all singing along to songs about having his heart broken.

And just like that, Flatcat is back! Eight years after “So This Is When We Grow Up”, they are at it again with “Heartless Machine”. Listening to the new album, it’s like time has stood still.

Four years after “Symptoms + Cures”, Comeback Kid is back once again with a new album called “Die Knowing”.

After last year’s “Animal Joy”, Shearwater is already back with what was originally supposed to be a small EP in between albums that came with a bunch of cover songs.

Seeing as the nineties are hot again with plenty of bands mixing in some grunge-y influences, Sub Pop must’ve have figured now was as good a time as any to re-release Soundgarden’s first EP, the 8-