From Tallahassee, Florida comes Lipona, a band that very quietly released their debut full-length without the help of a label.

After having to wait literally half my life for a new Guns N’ Roses album, I think it was almost impossible for la Rose to live up to my expectations from the get-go.

Ever seen the movie “The Pursuit Of Happyness” where Will Smith experiences the American Dream thanks to a Rubik’s cube?

I can’t really remember too much about Driver Side Impact’s debut album “The Very Air We Breathe”. But from what little I can still recall it was a little more experimental than “Lion”.

What basically started out as a joke band between Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme has become an unctrollable hipshaker since.

Album number six (!) for the New Amsterdams opens almost as unnoticed as the actual release of the album with the very lo-fi “Revenge” which has just Matthew Pryor strumming his guitar while singin

With what has to be one of the catchiest album titles of the year, La Dispute has released an album that hit me about as hard as a kick in the nether regions.

Canaduh’s Jonathan Inc.recently dropped an album called “Things Done And Left Undone” which is nearly drowning in a pool of melancholy.

If they still need a soundtrack to go with “Crank 2 : High Voltage”, they should just pay Basement Records a visit.

God, what a bunch of self-indulgent wankers! It’s like In The Pines headed in the studio with a bunch of halfassed whiny ideas, hoping they’d somehow miraculously transform into songs. Guess what?