Faster and Louder

When it comes to power pop and garage rock, Psychotic Youth is at the head of the master class and aging like fine wine. Ready Go is the ba...

Still riding the momentum of their excellent debut album Last Laugh , Melbourne's power poppin' punk rock and rollers extraordinaire...

The Gang is back, and you have been properly warned!  Wreckless Eyeballs is the sixth in a string of singles released by desert-pop superhe...

You have to love an album with the name 15 Super Hits . Right off, you know to expect nothing more and nothing less than fun and timeless ro...

A few months since they released a super-promising demo online, Boston's Adult Learners have a 7" record out on Saccharine Tryst Re...

On New Year's Eve of 2024, I wrote, "If we finally get a Taxi Girls full-length next year, it may very well be my album of the year...

Cincinnati has been an underrated hotbed of punk rock for pretty much as long as I've been following punk rock. The latest sensations fr...

That ever-dependable institution of Boston garage rock is back with another slab of toe-tapping, hip-shaking goodness! I speak, of course, o...

Look out, kids: we've got a live one here!  GET STIFF! is the ripper of a debut album from Los Angeles, California's Inflatable Ido...

Palmyra Delran, the queen of trash pop and America's most beloved radio personality, is back with a new single with her band The Doppel ...

We are getting closer and closer to the arrival of the second album from The Sleeveens, and I can't deny I'm getting super-pumped. M...

Well look what we have here: the long-awaited fifth studio album from the man himself, Mr. Brad Marino! Out today on Spaghetty Town Records,...

When I first heard that The Peppermint Kicks were releasing a new single on April Fool's Day, I got a little suspicious. Anything having...

And now it is done.  Songs the Siren Sing is the final installment in Friends of Cesar Romero's Doomed Babe Series, a project that span...

Aw man, we are getting close to the end!  Jolly Joker is number 49 in Friends of Cesar Romero's Doomed Babe Series — making it the penul...

So Montreal's Private Lives released a really tremendous  sophomore LP  last year that somehow evaded my detection. I quite often regret...

And they're back! Sydney-based garage punk sensations Itchy & The Nits, authors of my 16th-ranked album of 2024, return with that ra...

I've been writing about Brad Marino's solo music for eight years now. You'd think that after that long, I wouldn't be so con...

Look who's back! The mighty Muck and the Mires have been one of America's finest garage rock 'n' roll bands for over a quart...

A Christmas single from Philadelphia's finest frat rock band has become a proper tradition, so why should 2025 be any different? The Bac...