First things first. In 1994, Toadies released Possum Kingdom and sunk into the shadows after their follow-up record was shelved. With that out of the way, we can tackle their newest release Play.Rock.Music. The years have been kind to the [...]
The Northern New Jersey quintet’s follow-up to last summer’s Visions of Tall Girl EP is a far departure from the assorted, jittery songs of their earlier material. More like Wild Beasts and Miniature Tigers with a bit of The Rapture [...]
It’s the best day of the week music lovers! Maybe you’re one of those weird people that looks forward to Friday or its newly adopted bastard cousin Thursday, but any discerning LP crate digger will tell you that the first [...]
What is it about the sea that inspires such tales of tragedy and betrayal? The various oceans and rivers of the world have served as inspiration for countless songs and seem to be arenas for all different examples of human [...]
SIMGEssential We all know the feeling well. The time when the anger becomes uncontrollable. The time when your emotions take over, and someone who you didn’t even know existed rears his or her ugly head. We all know what it [...]
Bad Case Of Big Mouth, an Experimental-Punk outfit from South Plainfield, isn’t timid when it comes to operating unconventionally, in fact, areas of eccentricity is this seven-piece collective’s comfort zone…and they thrive in it. While effortlessly transitioning between aggressive chunking [...]
SIMGEssential Lost In Society’s half of a split EP with the New York-based Ska-Punk collective American Pinup in February produced five setlist staples and a riotous single, “Not Afraid,” that continues to have Punks flipping the bird in the pit [...]
SIMGEssential Sitting on chair that had seen more famous asses than my own in the steamy surroundings of the Bonnaroo press compound nearly one year ago, River City Extension’s Joe Michelini assured this inquisitor the new record he and the [...]
SIMGEssential This afternoon the Garden State’s own Clark Westfield (James Wells) and Puppy Mills (Quinn English), better known as The Gay Blades, dropped a brand new slef-titled EP four songs in length. The collection includes the hollowed out, distortion-laden single [...]
Kearny cowpunk outfit Secret Country has returned with their first release in two years, a 7-inch single titled Seven Days A Week, which is out today (May 22nd) on Killing Horse Records. The first notes of the title track smack in you [...]
