“MCII” comes with ten power-popsongs about love and associated emotions that take cues from The Beach Boys, Big Star and a garage band like The Sonics.

The Icarus Line… didn’t know these guys were still alive and kicking to be honest.

Basically this review boils down to one thing : if you like garagerock, you need to have this self-titled album by Bass Drum Of Death.

Galactic Cannibal doesn’t like to waste any time and storms out the gates with “Hate Everything More”, a barnburner that will have everybody at their shows joining in when the line "Goddamn, raise

Brief Lives is a new name for me but on their new 2-song 7” they get the job done with their particular brand of abrasive post-hardcore.

This Chapel Hill quartet has been a consistent force for almost 25 years and don’t show any signs of slowing down just yet.

Holy shit, are there still bands that don’t feature Mikey Erg?

There are probably a lot of punkrockers out there who weren’t skating twenty years ago simply because they weren’t even born yet.

Finland’s Unkind is a brutal band that manages to lift crustcore to a whole new level on “Pelon Juuret”.

On the third Transplants album, it seems that the experimentation of previous releases has been largely replaced by a more straight-forward punk-rock sound.