Think I Care World Asylum Bridge Nine I’ve lived in Massachusetts for almost my entire life and I don’t think I’ve ever been to Winchendon. Judging by the sheer anger and hostility on this 10 song EP by Think I Care, I’m guessing there’s not a lot to do there and these guys are bored [...]

Punchpuppet Crazed Drunk Pedestrians EP Are You Listening Records I can most likely tell you that you’ll like Punchpuppet if your answer to the following question is yes: do you like The Queers or Screeching Weasel? Sounding like a cross between both of them, Punchpuppet is London’s answer to that particular style of happy/goofy/poppy punk [...]

Agression Grind Kings Lucky 13 This album’s a strange one. Original Oxnard band Agression split years ago, getting back together and getting ready to record again when vocalist Mark Hickey passed away in 2000. Guitarist Henry Knowles died in 2002, leaving bassist Bob Clark and drummer Mark Aber. Oddly, Bob is nowhere to be seen [...]

Various Artists Brats On the Beat Go Kart Kidz Bop has met The Ramones and a recorded offspring has appeared. If you’ve heard commercials (or God forbid actually heard the full CD’s) for Kidz Bop, you take current pop hits, give them to kids to sing, record and viola, you have a record. Pretty terrible, [...]

Strike Out Embrace Unfun On their debut LP, Strike Out rages and performs some blistering hardcore that heralds back to NYHC from the late 80′s/early 90′s. This means shouted choruses, memories of circle pits and metal guitar riffs screaming over an amazingly fast rhythm section. Like almost every other record coming out these days, the [...]