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The Fold – Dear Future, Come Get Me

January 11, 2010, 12:41 pm

Rating: /10

This is it, folks. This is where we get to watch ‘em walk down the aisle, take the diploma, smash …

Top 11 Hard Rock Releases of 2009

November 27, 2009, 12:00 am

Hard rockers and metalheads are only slightly worse than indie kids when it comes to bemoaning the fact that everyone …

Protest the Hero: Gallop Meets The Earth

October 1, 2009, 11:55 am

There’s nothing that proves a band’s worth quite like the live show, and there’s no genre that’s truer than in …

The Chariot – Wars and Rumors of Wars

September 23, 2009, 11:21 am

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Prelude: Not such a long time ago, on a Christian hardcore label not so far away…

Right before Norma Jean became …

311 – Uplifter

August 24, 2009, 9:15 am

Rating: /10

From what I’ve, ahem, been told, there’s this show called Sex and the City about a few chicks that drink …

The Number 12 Looks Like You – Worse Than Alone

July 21, 2009, 10:23 am

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New Jersey isn’t famous for much outside of Springsteen, excessive fake tans, a turnpike that’ll bring out the Rambo in …

New Found Glory – Not Without A Fight

June 16, 2009, 9:14 am

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Has it really been 10 years since “Nothing Gold Can Stay” shot the highest vocals this side of Coheed & …

The Riverboat Gamblers – Underneath the Owl

May 11, 2009, 8:04 pm

Rating: /10

Ahhhhhhh. Talk about refreshing. These days, “punk” is such a bastardized term that it holds about as much meaning as …

Eliot Lipp – Peace Love Weed 3D

April 20, 2009, 9:24 am

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“That’s a cross-joint – this is what our GRANDKIDS will be smoking!”
-Saul Silver, Pineapple Express

If Pineapple Express and cross-joints are …

Hills of Elysium – Cigadent

April 8, 2009, 9:58 am

Rating: /10

“If you can’t handle secondhand smoke or switchblades than you probably can’t handle this album, but I dare you to …