Secret Smoker is in fact so secret that I had never heard of them before, which is a shame because these Louisiana natives have a lot going for them that I am jealous of.

Formerly known as End Of A Year, Self Defense Family is not so much a band as a collective built around vocalist Patrick Kindlon.

More party music for punkrockers… that’s how Dave Kirchgessner describes Mustard Plug’s seventh album, their first since 2007’s “In Black And White”.

There’s been a lot going about an emo revival, which is kinda strange when as far as I know it’s never really been away. I mean, it’s not as if the genre died when the Get Up Kids called it a day.

Neck Deep is a relatively new band that came to life barely two years ago.

First of all, kudos to Tom Gabel/Laura Jane Grace for coming out as a woman two years ago. It took balls (pardon the pun) to do so.

What do you get when you put Jason Black (Hot Water Music), Neltie Penman (former Hot Water Music tour manager), Jeff Gensterblum (Small Brown Bike), Arty Shepard (Errortype:11) and Matt Kane toget

Stephen Malkmus never made it a secret that he considered the last Pavement album to be his unofficial first solo album.