Let’s face it, it’s been since “Yield” that Pearl Jam released an album really worth buying.

Well, they’ve done it again. Idlewild is simply not able to release a disappointing album if you ask me.

Back in the nineties Alice In Chains was – along with Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden – one of the bands that put grunge on the map and condemned us all to wearing flannel shirts.

Yay! Left Lane Cruiser is back already with a new album.

Allow me to get nostalgic here for a second… I grew up in the nineties and so I’m pretty familiar with bands like Everclear, Smashing Pumpkins, No Doubt, Nirvana and Third Eye Blind.

If the Swingin’ Utters are the middle ground and Filthy Thievin’ Bastards the projects where Johnny Bonnel lets his folk influences run wild, then it only makes sense that Druglords Of The Avenues

“The Loud Wars” is the third album for St. Louis’ So Many Dynamos. They actually had already shelved it for about a year when Vagrant decided to pick it up.

Now that third wave ska bands like Reel Big Fish are mostly making a mockery of themselves, there are still ska bands around that are actually worth listening to.

I remember when these guys started out on Jamey Jasta’s label Stillborn Records, they still sounded like every other tuff guy metalcore act on the block.

1 Year. 52 Weeks. 52 Songs.