The Thing that Ate Floyd
(Lavasocks Records). Review by Scott Adams.
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Planta (SQE Music). Review by Jen Cray.
Silversun Pickups
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.
Rancid
Punk rock meets Mickey Mouse as Rancid storms the Magic Kingdom’s House of Blues. Jen Cray squeezes into the sold-out crowd.
Brain Failure/Big D & the Kids Table
Beijing to Boston (Bad News). Review by Jen Cray.
Time Again
The Stories Are True (Hellcat). Review by Jen Cray.
Transplants
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
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.
Killradio
Raised On Whipped Cream (Columbia). Review by Jen Cray.
Flogging Molly
Within a Mile of Home (SideOneDummy). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Lars Fredriksen and the Bastards
Lars Fredriksen and the Bastards (Hellcat Records). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
The Code
Rhetoric of Reason (Jump Start). Review by Julio Torres.
Evergreen Terrace
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Evergreen Terrace
Writer’s Block (Eulogy). Review by by Nick Plante.
Streetlight Manifesto
Everything Goes Numb (Victory). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Common Rider
This is Unity Music (Hopeless). Review by Liza Hearon.
Choking Victim
Crack Rock Steady EP/Squatta’s Paradise Split CD (Tent City). Review by Nathan T. Birk.
Green Day
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