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MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ – L’ Autre Cap
reviewed by Casey Boland

MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ – L’ Autre Cap

Tori Kudo, the promotional information tells us, is “The Master of Mistake.” He gathers together disparate personages of great to little to no musical ability [...]

MORELLO – Twelve Ways to Breathe
reviewed by Heather Schofner

MORELLO – Twelve Ways to Breathe

Fans of At the Drive-In should check this out. This Dublin-based band really doesn’t want to be lumped with the likes of Flogging Molly — [...]

NO ONE GOES HOME – The New Era
reviewed by Alex Murphy

NO ONE GOES HOME – The New Era

Fans of Hellogoodbye and Reunion Show, get ready to meet your next pogo happy heartthrobs. This California power-pop-punk three-piece are ready to release their debut [...]

PARASITES – Retro-Pop Remasters
reviewed by Peter Terebesi

PARASITES – Retro-Pop Remasters

This is a “best of” release from the Parasites. This disc spans the careers of all four drummers and three bass players and a few [...]

REGRET – Misery Brigade
reviewed by Seth Gotro

REGRET – Misery Brigade

I love how hardcore bands try to solidify their authenticity by listing the most obscure bands as their influences. I’ve never heard of your influences [...]

SAFE HOME – The Wide World and All We Know
reviewed by Garrett Lyons

SAFE HOME – The Wide World and All We Know

Safe Home is a Dutch acoustic group that utilizes male and female harmonies to make an atmospheric spacey bit of alt-folk. Shades of Ani DiFranco [...]

SHAI HULUD – Hearts Once Nourished With Hope and Compassion
reviewed by Seth Gotro

SHAI HULUD – Hearts Once Nourished With Hope and Compassion

Maybe it’s because I just had to sit through the last Shai Hulud album, but…this sounds like the last Shai Hulud album I just listened [...]

SLIM JIM AND THE MAD COWS – Homebrewed
reviewed by Sean Lambert

SLIM JIM AND THE MAD COWS – Homebrewed

These Beantown boys add their own honky-tonk flavorings to such rock classics as “Paranoid,” “Breaking the Law,” “Sweet Emotion,” and “Lick It Up,” complete with [...]

STATIC THOUGHT – In the Trenches
reviewed by Heather Schofner

STATIC THOUGHT – In the Trenches

Frontman and guitarist Eric Urbach has loved punk for a long time. He says, “Punk is real for us. We eat it and breathe it.” [...]

TODAY FOREVER – The New Pathetic
reviewed by Seth Gotro

TODAY FOREVER – The New Pathetic

The members of this band aren’t bad musicians. They just don’t know what kind of a band they want to be. One song is a [...]

TRE LUX – A Strange Gathering
reviewed by Jenny Carter

TRE LUX – A Strange Gathering

Switchblade Symphony’s Tina Root is back with her softer, gentler project, Tre Lux. Interestingly, this is a collection of cover songs, which I think emphasize [...]

WITHIN – The End Is Near: Consider Yourself Warned
reviewed by Seth Gotro

WITHIN – The End Is Near: Consider Yourself Warned

This is definitely some radio-friendly metalcore, except that they don’t play Christian music on mainstream radio on the off chance someone will hear the “J-word” [...]

UNKNOWN
reviewed by Asher Ellis

UNKNOWN

Rick Lashbrook Films/Eleven Eleven Films 98 min., dir. by Simon Brand, with Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Barry Pepper, and Joe Pantoliano Imagine waking up in [...]

BLADES OF GLORY
reviewed by Mitch Emerson

BLADES OF GLORY

Paramount Pictures 93 min., dir. by Will Speck and Josh Gordon, with Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, and Amy Poehler When rival figure skaters Chazz Michael [...]