You don’t hear the words ska and punk combined quite as often these days as back when I first got into punkrock.

Joining the ranks of punkrockers gone acoustic, there is now this split album by The Lawrence Arms’ Brendan Kelly and Smoke Or Fire’s Joe McMahon.

Holy shit, what the fuck are these guys on? If the Americans were serious about torturing prisoners in Abu Ghraib, then they should’ve been playing this EP for 24 hours straight.

I feel like a kid in the candy story with new albums by The Menzingers, Young Livers and now The Flatliners!

My my, what a difference two years and a better production make! Not that the Young Livers debut “The New Drop” was a shit album!

On album number six Rocky Votolato tells the stripped down and acoustic story of his battle with depression.

Easily one of the most productive bands around, Portugal. The Man is back already with yet another full-length. If I’m right “American Ghetto” is already album number five in just four years.

It would undoubtedly piss off more than a few bands to see acts who are heavily influenced by the sound you helped pioneer, go on to become more known than you are.

A man, a woman, a guitar, a set of drums and a couple of melodies. Blood Red Shoes proved in 2008 it’s all you need to make a solid album.

Following up “Dirt Hearts” with their first full-length, SoCal’s Vultures United seem to have no problem whatsoever keeping things as intense throughout all of “Savages” as on their EP.