With his first solo album to be released under his own name, Jonah Matranga is finally getting back in shape.

The Dutch answer to Rise And Fall has arrived! They are called The Hunger, have barely been a band for a year yet already manage to blow me clean out of my shoes with “Hope Against Hope”.

Take the best elements of alt-country and powerpop and fuse the two together. Sounds interesting? Then make sure you check out Ninja Gun’s second album, “Restless Rubes”.

Not a new album by one of Baltimore’s finest acts but a compilation containing Ruiner’s “What Could Possibly Go Right” EP, their songs from the split with Day Of The Dead, the “Still Smiling” demo

A punkrock band from Sweden? Ha! What else are they gonna come up with!

Yay, deathcore! With titles like “In Coalesce With Filth And Pain” or “Aortic Dissection”, you know you’re not gonna get any ballads during which you can snuggle against your girl.

Hey, do you like adrenalin-charged punkrock that’s built upon a solid folk foundation? Then be sure to check out The Riot Before and feel like you’re rediscovering pre-new Wave Against Me.

Sacramento’s Trash Talk is a hardcore band with the emphasis on ‘hard’. Since their inception in 2005, they have dropped a string of releases but this eponymous release is their first full-length.

Some of Denver, CO’s finest (former members of The Blackout Pact, Ghost Buffalo, Pinhead Circus,…) joined hands and somehow still found a way to play their instruments under the moniker Only Thunde

The Ergs! are no more. A damn shame if you ask me! But at least one of the best poppunk bands from the last couple of years don’t let us go home emptyhanded.