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Rest in Peace Tony Sly! Your death has saddened us all and you will be truly missed. Your music will live on forever. From 2010, I wrote a...

Felt like writing again and what better way to get back into it than writing about the brilliance of NUFAN. See, the thing is, it's not...

I looked at a bunch of "Best of 2009" punk lists over the past month or so. Nowhere did I see this release and that is a pity! I s...

Felt like doing a revisionist history update to this post from late last year. As I hear more and more of what is going on in the post-punk...

You know, reviews at Punk Mecca are like total solar eclipses...if they occurred more frequently they wouldn't be nearly as special! St...

Wow, quite the day for rock music! New stuff dropped from AFI, Paramore, Strung Out, Evergreen Terrace, It Dies Today, Hatebreed and Flint M...

I promised to write about the heritage and the contemporary, but haven't done too much of the old stuff lately. That's about to cha...

I love writing about music, always have. I think at times I apply a healthy amount of creativity and ingenuity to describing what I hear. B...

From Long Island comes The World We Knew . "Maturity" is the first word that comes to mind as I finished listening to the release...

From Vagrant Records comes the first new album from Alexisonfire in over 3 years. I'll admit, this is my first exposure to the group a...

What's not to like about the new NoFX release? Absolutely nothing. It's brilliant, inside and out and from beginning to end. I rar...

More than any other genre, punk has over-indulged itself in 3 letter acronyms or TLA's. Who was the first? DRI, MDC, JFA? Nope, you have...

From Search and Rescue records comes an outstanding pop-punk release from Michigan's The Swellers . This record took all of five minute...

Yep, it's true, Blink 182 has reformed, is in the studio and is preparing to tour! Announced last night on the Grammy's , they have ...

"Catch Me If You Can" is our own modern day "Ace of Spades"!!! Lemmy, don't worry, these Jersey Boys do Motorhead p...

Ask any discerning NoFX fan and it's likely, that if pressed, they would not list this release as one of their faves. You would probabl...

What better way to get back into the swing of things than to recommend two outstanding punk books! First it's Matt Diehl's "My ...

Compilations are great sometimes. You get a chance to check out a wide array of bands and sometimes are pleasantly surprised when you come a...

Clearly taking a leadership position in punk, Chicago's Rise Against return with their fifth album. I've been waiting for a song to...

Or maybe this post should be titled "Hello, Bert? It's me, John Reis". Whatever the title of this post, hardcore and punk und...