I never heard of these guys before, but The Decline is an Australian punkrock band who have just released their second full-length.

San Diego’s The Bombpops is a relatively new name in the SoCal scene with “Stole The TV” being only their second EP. Yet I’m pretty sure we’ll be hearing a lot more from them in the future.

Mindset is a Melbourne-based band who have just released their debut album, “Midnight Sky”.

It’s Hightime, not Lifetime! On their debut album these Adelaide natives do play fast and melodic punkrock but that’s where the comparison ends.

Didn’t really know Malibu Stacy until I received their latest album.

For album number two, Black Box Revelation decided to take a little trip and ended up in LA with producer Alain Johannes.

The cleaned up version of “Resignation Day” and follow-up “Collapser” already showed the world that Banner Pilot is one of the better punkrock bands to come from the Midwest in quite some time.

For years Frenzal Rhomb was the only Australian band I knew outside of INXS. Well, I knew Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan but you can hardly call them a band.

For the better part of a decade Minneapolis’ Astronautalis has been cranking out tunes that could be labeled hiphop, but which actually transcend that label.

Early next year there shall be much rejoicing when Pinback’s new album finally comes out but to tie us over Rob Crow was kind enough to drop another solo album.