Save Your Breath – There Used To Be A Place For Us
Save Your Breath is a Welsh band that chose its name well with the next song always seeming to be even more fun to sing along to.
Modern Life Is War – Fever Hunting
When Modern Life Is War called it a day in 2008, hardcore fans all over the world shed a tear. Come on, admit it. We know you did.
Penthouse North
After going blind, photographer Sara Frost (Michelle Monaghan) has become something of a recluse who hides from the rest of the world in her boyfriend’s penthouse. When the world finds her in the form of two sadistic criminals looking for a bunch of stolen diamonds, Sara will have to make it through a New Year’s Eve that’s quite different from what she had planned.
The Walking Dead S03
At the end of the second season of AMC’s The Walking Dead, Rick and his merry band of survivors were left to fend for themselves in the open. The third season begins with them finding a prison and turning it into a home. Things are finally looking up for them until they run into The Governor, a shady guy who runs the nearby town of Woodbury.
Deafheaven – Sunbather
Black metal, post-rock and shoegaze mixed together? Sure, why not! Especially when it’s done as good as this San Francisco-based outfit does it.
Defeater – Letters Home
On full-length number three, the guys in Defeater continue with their story about a dysfunctional wartime family.
A Great Big Pile Of Leaves – You’re Always On My Mind
For fans of hellogoodbye or Best Coast, this fun album by Brooklyn’s A Great Big Pile Of Leaves should be a treat.
Middle Class Rut – Pick Up Your Head
This duo made one hell of an impression on me with “No Name No Color” a couple of years ago.
Power Trip – Manifest Decimation
The guys in Power Trip have already been shredding their way across Texas for quite some time now and it has all led to their debut full-length, “Manifest Decimation”.
Haraball – Sleep Tall
When you describe yourselves as ‘a competent refinement of a genre that most bands misinterpret’ and as a ‘vitalization of hardcore’ and a ‘cultivation of the bare essentials’, I’m left thinking ‘r