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?

After “The Crusade” on which they sounded even more like Metallica than Metallica now does, a lot of people felt disappointed.

Killing California is back with a new 6-song EP and on it they do what they already did so well on their full-length “Goin’ South”… play kickass OC hardcore punk with additional rock n roll swagger

“Selective Wreckage” is the new Crime In Stereo release that throws all the outtakes from “Troubled Stateside” and “… Is Dead” together on one shiny disc.

Call To Preserve is a five-piece from Florida who already made a good impression with 2006’s “Unsinkable” and are back now with a new even harder hitting album called “From Isolation”.