Concept albums… yeah, that’s usually not a good sign. Do you remember Angels & Airwaves’ albums? Neither do I. But when Direct Hit! make one, it turns out it can be a good thing.

Crazy Arm has already been doing their thing for a couple of years now. Next to the fully rocked out version of the band, they’ve also been going at it in acoustic fashion from time to time.

With “Internal Eyes” San Francisco’s Heartsounds unleash another torrent of skatepunk on the unsuspecting masses.

On their third album, Doomriders are at it again.

2013 has already seen its share of good pop-punk albums and now there’s Seaway’s debut to add to the list.

From the state whose state song is taken from the hit musical “Oklahoma!”, comes Red City Radio.

Next to being in Now, Now (check out last year’s “Threads” if you haven’t already done so), Jess Abbott also has a solo project called Tancred.

Detroit’s The Koffin Kats are back with their diesel-fueled take on psychobilly. “Born Of The Motor” is already the band’s seventh full-length and by now they are one well-oiled machine.

This year marks the 20^th anniversary of Dinosaur Jr’s “Where You Been” and in order to celebrate the occasion, Garrett Klahn (Texas Is The Reason, Solea) and Sergie Loobkoff (Samiam, Sol

Imagine an advanced class called ‘Stoner Rock’ where Torche are the melodic ones, Baroness the ones that think in concepts and where the Queens out-sexy everyone.