(Lavasocks Records). Review by Scott Adams.

Planta (SQE Music). Review by Jen Cray.

Jen Cray was absorbed in Silversun Pickups’ sonic swirl of gorgeous distortion and dreamy pop as the band opened its summertime tour at Orlando’s Hard Rock Live.

Punk rock meets Mickey Mouse as Rancid storms the Magic Kingdom’s House of Blues. Jen Cray squeezes into the sold-out crowd.

Beijing to Boston (Bad News). Review by Jen Cray.

The Stories Are True (Hellcat). Review by Jen Cray.

What do you get when you mix Rancid’s Tim Armstrong and Blink 182’s Travis Barker with a roadie-turned-rapper? The Transplants answer Jen Cray’s question on this year’s Warped Tour.

Green Day started out 16 years ago as a bratty punk rock band playing in dank, empty clubs, but these days their ambitious punk rock opera American Idiot has catapulted them onto a sold-out arena tour. Jen Cray finds them not to have changed in the least.

Raised On Whipped Cream (Columbia). Review by Jen Cray.

Within a Mile of Home (SideOneDummy). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Lars Fredriksen and the Bastards (Hellcat Records). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Rhetoric of Reason (Jump Start). Review by Julio Torres.

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Writer’s Block (Eulogy). Review by by Nick Plante.

Everything Goes Numb (Victory). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

This is Unity Music (Hopeless). Review by Liza Hearon.

Crack Rock Steady EP/Squatta’s Paradise Split CD (Tent City). Review by Nathan T. Birk.

After a nice rest period following the release of their most recent album, Nimrod, Green Day are hitting the road with the Warped Tour to warm up for the recording of their next album, tentatively titled Warning. Jason Feifer got a preview of what to expect when he spoke with drummer TrŽ Cool, just prior to the tour’s kickoff.