Handsome Foxes is a new band out of Raleigh, NC with members from The Ethnographers among its ranks.

Back when I first started listening to punkrock, I listened to skapunk quite a bit. Bosstones, Link 80, Reel Big Fish, Mad Caddies, Save Ferris,… you name it!

Verse called it a day in 2009, played a couple of shows again two years later and are completely back now with their new album. Does it sound like what I was hoping for?

Young Turks is the name of a relatively new hardcore band out of Portland that is fronted by former Broadway Calls bassist Matt Koenig.

After assuring us in the opening track that they are always in motion, Gainesville’s Dikembe launches into more angular guitar antics on “Apology Not Fucking Accepted”, which leads up to the messag

Texas’ Thieves storm out of the gates with the title track and almost stumble over one another before going all out in a blaze of posi pop-punk.

While looking up info about this Wisconsin band, I came across an article that said Masked Intruder attacked singing group members in a church hall with a machete. Seems pretty hardcore, right?

Thanks to their fans, John Coffey got to go to Sweden to record their second album with Pelle Gunnerfeldt (Refused, The Hives).

Rise Records is on a roll, finally signing some bands worthy of attention like the Bouncing Souls, Hot Water Music, Make Do And Mend,… And now there’s the debut full-length of Daytrader, a band I h