On “Freedom”, San Francisco’s SpiralArms keep one eye firmly on the rearview mirror as they churn out their heavy rock songs that sound decidedly retro but which come with a modern production.

Tides From Nebula is a Polish post-rock outfit who have locked themselves in their own studio for six months. Rather than killing each other, they came out with “The Eternal Movement”.

Hank3 is at it again with what is probably his zillionth release…this time around he’s releasing a double country album (“Brothers Of The 4x4”) along with a punk album (“A Fiendish Threat”).

NY’s Broadcaster previously released one full-length (“Welcome To The Wetlands”) and two EPs. And now there’s “A Million Hours”.

Bad Sports open their new album with the one-two combo that is “Get You” and “Washed Up”, two short slabs of garage-y punk rock.

Apart from learning kids how to count to three with their EPs (“One”, “Two” and now “Three”), Black God is also really, really good at writing short blasts of hardcore punk.

Just like Frank Turner and sometimes bandmate Mike Kinsella, Evan Weis (aka Into It. Over It) has adopted a full band for his sophomoric album, “Intersections”.

After the progressive hardcore of Refused, the old school hardcore punk blast that is AC4, the garage rock of The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Dennis Lyxzén now tries his hand at yet another g

The Flatliners dropped a bombshell called “Cavalcade” in 2010. Loaded with buzzsaw guitars, big choruses, solid lyrics and catchy hooks, it had everything you could ever want in a punkrock album.