Who here remembers The Dismemberment Plan? Raise your hands! They released a couple of solid albums back in the day (1999’s “Emergency & I”, 2001’s “Change”) and called it a day after that.

Following the free release of their self-titled album last year, Pentimento is back at it with a 4-song EP called “Inside The Sea”.

Even though Audacity has already cranked out a bunch of EPs and LPs in the decade they’ve been around, “Butter Knife” is my first encounter with these California-based garage-rockers.

Marked Men might not be around anymore but that’s okay because we already had Mark Ryan’s Mind Spiders and now we have Radioactivity, which sees Ryan reunited with Jeff Burke.

Following a short flirtation with Fueled By Ramen, The Swellers have found a new home with No Sleep Records and released one of their best albums to date.

The Creepshow crawled back in through the backdoor with a couple of replacements among its ranks. First and foremost there’s lead vocalist and guitarist Kenda Legaspi who replaced Sarah Blackwood.

Is it punkrock or indie? Who knows! Signals Midwest manage to combine both styles on “Light On The Lake” in a way that it’s hard to tell where one style ends and the other begins.

Sainthood Reps was co-founded by Brand New’s touring guitarist Derrick Sherman and it’s hard not to pick up on that band’s influence in songs like “Desert Song” and… well, the rest of the album.

18 Songs? For an album that comes with a title that seems to be lifted from 14-year-old emo girl’s diary? Yes and yes and it fucking rocks from start to finish!

When one of its founding members leaves the fold, it can never be an easy time for a band.