It’s a shame these guys — okay, “guy”; apparently there used to be an actual band, but on At the Poles, Seven Storey Mountain is Lance Lammers playing pretty much everything — have gotten lumped the past in with that whole emo school…
The Brokedowns play hardcore with touches of metal; their sound on New Brains for Everyone isn’t unusual, but their singer is — he’s a more subtle vocalist than most. Throughout the album, he sounds like he’s enjoying himself…
Rise and shine, kiddies. The Good Mornings are here to jump start your day with their self-titled debut album. Calliope bandmates Carmen Paradise and Jason Lantrip come together with their fellow Good Mornings counterparts to produce an album…
Four Star Alarm’s self-titled EP is competent, well-written guitar rock. The drumming’s strong, all the instruments are well-played, and the vocalist at least sounds like he’s heard Mike Patton and Brandon Boyd, especially on “Impenetrable”…
I’d bet a psychologist would have a field day with my weird attraction to women who could probably kick my ass. I’ve always been fascinated by tough, angry, musical ladies like, say, the Distillers’ Brody Dalle, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon…
Hair: Chicago Punk Cuts, as you would expect from the title, compiles fourteen unreleased songs by different Chicago punk bands, spanning the range of punk and hardcore. From Explode and Make Up’s ’90s pop-punk, to The Killing Tree’s hardcore thrash…
