Eldridge Rodriguez has never exactly been a ray of sunshine as a songwriter. A brilliant one yes, but never one that brightens days with words of [...]

In the Rodriguez-Lopez family, musical talent is a strong and vibrant trait. Zechs Marquise’s Malfred and Marcel Rodriquez-Lopez are the younger brothers of The Mars [...]

Having gone to many ska shows in northern California from the late 1990s through the early 2000s, I remember seeing MU330’s vocalist and guitarist Dan [...]

After self-releasing their debut, Broom, in 2005, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin started a tape club to raise money for touring. Each month, they mailed [...]

There is an underlying darkness that seems to pervade every song on Nothington’s latest album Borrowed Time. And the impassioned thrash that opens the album [...]

Bitch Magnet was a short-lived band of the late ’80s and early ’90s with roots in both Ohio and North Carolina.  Although their music didn’t [...]

This special double-CD/vinyl reissue features two versions of Coalesce‘s Give Them Rope. Disc one contains the original 1997 release (with a slight remastering job), while disc [...]

Based out of Austin, Texas, electro-pop artist Corduroi has created an understated debut that runs like one giant song. It dazzles when need be (“Crustacean”), but [...]

I don’t know if there’s a secret pact going on with punk acts where they all decide to sound so similar to one other. Banner [...]

Dreamers Of The Ghetto certainly dream big on their debut Enemy/Lover, with a sound more fitting to a band whose played together for twice as [...]

The reissue of Faith’s Subject To Change alongside their first demo recordings is highly entertaining, partly because it’s straight out of 1983, but also because [...]

With the songs on this album flowing like the titular tributaries of a vast body of water, it’s perhaps somewhat of a surprise that it [...]

I Bleed Rock ‘n Roll from Kepi Ghoulie – formerly of Groovie Ghoulies — is an album blessed with a catchy title. But does the music hold up? [...]

As Black Cobra, Rafa Martinez (drums) and Jason Ladrian (guitar, vocals) have left a lot of damage in their wake, blowing the eardrums and minds of [...]

Void emerged from the early ’80s DC hardcore scene that produced Minor Threat and Bad Brains, and the influence of these bands on their music [...]