Ryan PangilinanI didn’t really know what to expect when The Wonder Years’ album The Upsides wound up in my inbox. For one thing, my only exposure to the band had been on the Kid Dynamite tribute record, “Carry the Torch,” in which they did...
Alana RomeTouring already is what we love to do and what we always want to do, and to add the fact that it's for a great cause and you're just doing something good every single night... [is] really kind of unbelievable. -- Derek Sanders
The musical jump between Crime In Stereo’s past two albums, The Troubled Stateside and Is Dead, is nothing less than fantastic. The Long Island outfit went from a pretty standard melodic hardcore sound to a more challenging post-hardcore sound...
What would happen if Forever The Sickest Kids, Cartel, and A Thorn For Every Heart had a baby? They would name it And Then There Was You. As suggested by the lame birth metaphor, the pop-punk quartet from South Florida has found itself in an...
The Status’ ironically titled So This Is Progress reminds me of the halcyon days of pop-punk where bands like SR-71, Riddlin Kids, American Hi-Fi, Sum 41, and Trouble Is all (briefly) took over airwaves. While bands like New Found Glory have...
What’s in a name? Well, if you have a great name like, let’s say, The Beatles or Fucked Up, it can lead you a place of legend, hearsay, and an always welcome presence on Fox TV. This Time Next Year apes their name from an old song by The...
The last time REDEFINE checked in with Let Go, they had released their Bleed Americant-esque album on The Militia Group. Now, they’re back with the Story Changes and a neat little split EP called Analogies. I don’t know what happened...
Part of the current ’90s pop-punk revivalist scene, Vancouver, BC’s Living with Lions joins the ranks of bands like Fireworks, This Time Next Year, First to Leave and Broadway Calls in recalling the halcyon days of Fat Wreck bands...