Part pop-punk, part 90s shouty emo.

Check out their Bandcamp page.

Super catching punk that’s not pop punk at all, with a touch of old school hardcore. It's perfect.

Their album, The EP LP, is 9 songs in 12 minutes. Not a second of filler. Buy it. 

Punknews.org album of 2011. Get stoked. Or get “meh, ” it's punknews.

I’m pretty sure the dudes in this band are paying royalties to Rivers Cuomo. Some songs on this record are so damn Weezer-ish (Beach Community, Famous Friend), good first 2 albums Weezer, but still Weezer. 

This song is from their first full-length, “Joyce Manor.” Overall, I have to be in the right mood for the album, punky Weezer isn’t where my head is at most days, and dude’s voice can wear on me pretty quick. However, I love the hell out of the track I posted, Constant Headache. I have yet to get tired of it at all. 

With all said, they put on a great show, and you should see them every chance you get. 

Photo by Alvin Carrillo

I’m going to do something I hate when reviewers do, compare a band to another band, then ride that single train of thought right into the ground….

Drive like Jay who? Few bands (that don’t have John Reis in them) have pulled of the Drive Like Jehu sound as well as Cut Teeth, right down to me getting distracted and turning it off before the album is over.

With that said, Cut Teeth are by no means a Jehu cover/rip-off band. They have a great rock/punk thing going on with touches of hardcore, which I guess could also be a description of Drive Like Jehu.

Similarities to other things aside, I truly do like this album quite a bit, and the Ben Sears art is a nice bonus. 

Stream the whole album here. Or buy it on vinyl here.  

Pop punk with a slight emo touch that I love as much now as I did 15 years ago. They were a favorite local band for years.

Backstory: Three high school kids in 1995/1996 start a Queers/Mr. T Experience/ a million other bands rip-off band. They write 41 songs in about four years, release one ten-song cassette, play shows constantly, and become their own band. Decide that pop-punk isn’t cool anymore, change their name to Hunter Rose, and get more emo/mathy. Then they break up.

2008, two guys decided to get the band back together. They recruit three other guys and start writing new songs. They play some shows, and in 2009, they record a new album, then promptly stop being a band. In 2012, a favorite local venue closes so they have a reunion show and released a cassette of the material they had recorded three years earlier. They’ll probably break up/just stop playing again, but who knows.

This song is from their just-released album called “This is About Us.” Buy it here for super cheap.

And here is everything the original line up did between 1996-1999, for free.

I can not stop listening to this album. I had intended to post this a week ago, but it sucked me in, and I lost a week.

You Can Just Leave It All is a great album, and is much better than the band's previous efforts, which I thought I liked. I absolutely love the addition of post-rock elements. 

Buy it digitally here or here. Or just use the link on the band’s Facebook page and download it for free from mediafire. 

I’ve been waiting for this record since the first time I listened to Chicago Bowls a year or so ago.

I loved the hell out of those 4 songs, I’m a little less in love with these 10. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still super stoked about the album and have been playing it constantly since I bought it last week (which you should also do), but the slow songs just aren’t hitting me right at the moment. I have only had the album for 5 days, though, so we’ll see.

Ridiculous name aside, this kills.

Drone metal with a little thrash in the middle, so good.

They have 8 releases up on their bandcamp page. 

I’ve spent the last 2 hours listening to the same 8 Singles Mothers songs trying to decide which one is the best.

It has not been an easy decision, and I’m probably going to second-guess it even after it's posted.

The official quote for this band seems to be: “It’s like Craig Finn fronting Black Flag in early ’90s DC, yet not at all.” His voice and lyric style are pretty Finn-ish, especially on their Wild Party ep, but just like the quote, but it's not.

Check everything out on their Bandcamp page. The Wild Party ep is name your own price, and the self-titled record is $5 CA or $5 for a vinyl copy from Deathwish Inc.

Talk about a sophomore slump. 93 posts for the year and only 10 in 2012. 

Hopefully, for year three, I can get my act together.

Some stats:

66 followers. Which is more than double year one, but still not many. I should probably post more Snowing, Tumblr loves that shit (221 notes).

Covers month was the most popular month of the year, accounting for four of the top five posts (note-wise) posted in the last year.

1. Ryan Adams - Wonderwall (135) cover2. MixTapes -  Nothing Can Kill The Grimace (79)3. Deftones - Simple Man (35) Cover 4. The Gaslight Anthem - I Do Not Hook Up (30) cover5. Johnny Cash - Solitary Man (30) cover

So, Tumblr loves covers by big popular bands and pop punk.

Goals for year three:

• 1. At least 100 posts. 2. Figure out how to make the new theme more of what I want. 3. Actually finish this year’s Fest posts. 4. Follow through on at least one of the above goals. 

A little too close to home as of late.

I’m super stoked for the new album “NO.” Order it here. 

In the meantime, here is a track from their Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regression album.

Mandried is a pretty good “Cliff Notes” version of OMG in eight minutes and ten seconds. It starts heavy and riffy (that is now a word) with shouted vocals, then the vocals go out and the song marches on, getting nosier and nosier. The drums drop out, and the guitar slowly fades, and the noise gets more prominent. Eventually, it becomes a noise collage with only the faintest traces of what the song started as. 8:10 that completely covers everything that Old Man Gloom does.