Music

The Kobanes Japan Invasion Fixing a Hole/Dumb! Records 6/10 More legitimate pop punk, but lacking the expertise of...

Teenage Bottlerocket They Came from the Shadows Fat Wreck Chords 8/10 Ah, now this is pop punk. The...

Dethklok w/Mastodon, Converge, High on Fire November 19, 2009 Hollywood Palladium Hollywood, CA The best part about mosh...

Rooney W/ The Crash Kings and Tally Hall The Glasshouse, Pomona, CA I have seen Rooney maybe eight...

Fighting the Villain First Impression PopSmear Records 2/10 Terrible, cookie-cutter, MTV punk-pop (unlike mass media who co-opted the...

The National Rifle Man Full of Trouble Unsigned/self-released 7/10 The last thing anyone thinks of when they think...

NOFX Cokie The Clown /My Orphan Year EPs Fat Wreck Chords 8/10 You know what, I dislike Fat...

Nadia Ali Embers Smile in Bed 8/10 After writing countless reviews and listening to so many different arrangements...

The Lawrence Arms Buttsweat and Tears Fat Wreck Chords 9/10 FUCK. YES. The first bit of new tunes...

Fest 8 Halloween Weekend 2009 Gainesville, FL The Festies – Best of the Fest Well, ladies and gentleman,...

Capgun Coup Maudlin 5/10 Capgun Coup, you are SO lucky that the iTunes random went into the middle...

Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da Universal/Vagrant 7/10 Goddamned Germans. I swear to God they try to be...

The Downer Party Ego Driven Lust Creatures Popsmear records 6/10 Given the brevity of The Downer Party’s EP...

Josh Ottum Like the Season Cheap Lullaby Records 8/10 By all accounts, Josh Ottum is the quintessential come-from...