After leaving Trustkill and trading them in for Rise Records in the States and the almighty Roadrunner in Europe and after adding No Use For A Name’s Dave Nassie as a guitarist, one would expect a

I wouldn’t want to feed all the bands out there who come out with an amazing debut and then fumble the ball on the follow-up.

“If I Had A Hi-Fi” is not only a rather nice palindrome, it is also the name of Nada Surf’s cover album that covers a lot of ground in twelve songs.

“Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones” may be a weird album title but apparently it’s simply the band members’ nicknames put together. Haha… but not really.

Four years into his existence, Wallace Vanborn drops a debut called “Free Blank Shots”. No, we are not talking about some genius toddler here.

Amazingly only one of the guys in The Riot Before has a beard. I thought there were gonna be more. But hey, there’s always at least one when you hear this kinda music.

While their albums have always been solid in their own right, there’s simply no denying that Flogging Molly is first and foremost a live band.

After their 2007 debut full-length, these guys didn’t live up to their name and went on tours with the Foo Fighters, The Cult and Velvet Revolver instead.

What else could I want? After 28 songs of Bullet Treatment’s hardcore punk? Not a whole lot really.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.