Akashic Press expands, redesigns, and re-releases Mark Anderson and Mark Jenkins’s invaluable DIY learning tool, Dance of Days. Even better, it’s just as energizing as the first read. What were YOU up to at age 16?

When Skies Wash Ashore (KOCH/Raging Nation Records). Review by P. McEver.

Take Me to the Sea (Matador). Review by Addam Donnelly.

Matthew Moyer spends a quiet night in with TSOL.

Still Drinking (Dead City Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Kibosh (Joyful Noise). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Scott Adams’ quarrel with this recently released DVD of the legendary Cro-Mags’ CBGBs reunion show is not that the band couldn’t bring the power one last time, but that the camera and sound quality were bootleg quality. That ain’t punk, punk.

Matthew Moyer is glad that Holly George-Warren and the other compilers of this coffeetable-riffic collection of punk photos fetishize image as much as he does.

Matthew Moyer gets a crash course in hardcore history and a masterclass in interviewing bands from reading this collection of Norman Brannon’s Anti-Matter zine.

Back in the heyday of wrestling, when it was so much more than Vince McMahon mashing on the controller buttons, Bruiser Brody cast a long shadow. Matthew Moyer and Larry Matysik reveal how Brody’s persona has outlasted his brutally short life.

The Body and the Soil (Go Kart). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Cafeteria Brutalia (Sickroom). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Ampgrave (Constellation). Review by Aaron Shaul.

On a Lake of Dead Trees +2 (Ascetic). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Proudflesh (Wired Gnome). Review by Scott Adams.

Greatest Hits (Last Chance Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

A Love Hate Relationship (Revelation). Review by Addam Donnelly.

Same Meat, Different Gravy (TKO Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

When We Speak, We Breathe (Fearless). Review by Addam Donnelly.

Give ‘em the Boot IV (Hellcat Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.