Two Hand Fools - Who's Driving?

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Two Hand Fools is a band from Cleveland, playing an awesome pop-punk with a touch of folk-punk sound.

Their bandcamp doesnt have this album streaming, so the bandcamp preview below and the download above don't match. That's okay though because they are both awesome.

Post Teens - The Heat

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Post Teens are a band from Gainesville. They play an awesome catchy, noisy, garage-punk thing. Short, fast songs. In fact, it is six songs in six minutes.



http://www.noidearecords.com/bands/releases/postteens_theheat.php

Hooky - You Missed it!

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Hooky was a short-lived band around from summer 2007 to spring 2008 (5 killer shows, 1 crappy demo), featuring Matt Canino (Latterman, RVIVR), and Erica Freas (RVIVR). Sort of a prelude to RVIVR. Similar tone but dirtier. Love it.

http://www.rumbletowne.com/rtr/rtr-releases/RTR-000

Hi Ho Silver / Quick Attack Split

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So about a year ago i got an email, followed by postal mail from Indiana of Quick Attack. This mail contained a bunch of rad stuff. Over this past week this album in particular has been commanding a lot of my time, so i figured hey why not make a post of it.

Some really, really awesome punk rock.

http://skulltularecords.bandcamp.com/album/quick-silver-attack-away

This Is My Fist - Demo

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This Is My Fist was a Bay Area punk rock band. Musically they fall somewhere between This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, and Punkin Pie. Super awesome lady punk vocals like Songs For Moms.

http://www.noidearecords.com/bands/thisismyfist.php

The Holy Mess - Dismount

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?uimij9rovtrqybf

The Holy Mess is a punk rock band from Philadelphia. Awesome catchy uptempo punk. For fans of The Lawrence Arms, The Loved Ones, etc

http://fucktheholymess.bandcamp.com/album/dismount-2009

RVIVR - RVIVR

http://www.mediafire.com/?z0u3hiux8x88nnx

I somehow neglected to post about RVIVR in the time i have loved this band. The reason for that is that i have a totally made-up popularity metric which is based mainly off last.fm listening stats. RVIVR has a lot of plays, but not many listeners! So that should tell you a lot about how rad they are if a small amount of people are listening to them all the goddamn time.

RVIVR is a band from Olympia, WA, composed of members of Latterman (i love Latterman), Shorebirds, and some bands from Rumbletowne Records that i just learned about and now will have to explore. 

Anyway this is super awesome pop-punk in the neighbourhood of Latterman, but is ultimately quite a different entity. Really awesome, high-energy pop-punk. This is their only full-length to date, but they have some EP's and a collection album available on the Rumbletowne website

Available for streaming/free download/purchase/donation at http://www.rumbletowne.com/rtr/rtr-releases/RTR-009

Fifth Hour Hero - Scattered Sentences (2003)

http://www.mediafire.com/?cyf3r3cvkuo22c3

Jawbreaker-esque pop-punk from Montreal. They released two full-length albums and some EP's, and broke up in 2007

http://www.myspace.com/fifthhourhero

http://www.noidearecords.com/bands/releases/fifthhourhero_scattered.php

Vacation - The Do Shit Disc

http://www.mediafire.com/?8v3e3yvj5l42m2e

Vacation is a pop-punk band from Cincinnati. Super rad smashy sloppy pop-punk such as the likes of Punkin Pie. Always a fun time!
Download their new album for free at http://www.therecordinglabel.com/

http://vacation.bandcamp.com/

Paul Newman and the Ride Home - The Importance of Being Earnest Hemingway (2011)

http://www.mediafire.com/?yt8hnk53w8a4fc3

Bandmember Jacob sent me this via email. Paul Newman and the Ride Home is a 5-piece band from Baltimore. This album is like folky-pop-punk. Reminiscent of Fake Problems, except more pop-punk than that. It is a pretty awesome album!

http://paulnewmanandtheridehome.bandcamp.com/

Flawless - Something I'll Never Miss

http://www.mediafire.com/?4acfmtrhtsaa1t7

Flawless is a band from Springfield, Missouri. I was emailed by bandmember Alex, offering a mutually beneficial arrangement of posting this album on my blog!

Alex says: 

We're from Springfield, Missouri , and we've been around for about a year.We're influenced by bands like Texas is the Reason, American Football, Jawbreaker, and Lifetime, but I wouldn't say we sound much too much like any of them.We recorded the whole EP ourselves over the course of about a week. I don't expect to necessitate anything really exciting like a review or an interview because we're a tiny band from the midwest, but if you want to do either of those that would be pretty fuckin' rad.

The more tiny bands the better! I figure if i can get just a few people to listen to tiny bands, I'm doing my little part for independent music. I'm not much for interviews (i've had a couple offers) because i am terribly antisocial, and usually rewrite emails and posts about two dozen times before i send them...

The description above gives a fairly good idea of (the influences of) Flawless's sound. Kind of like an energetic 90s emo/pop-punk hybrid. I can see the Lifetime and Jawbreaker in it. Maybe a little like 764-HERO as well. It's a very solid EP. I recently heard someone say that 90s music sucked. I had to light into them a little bit.

LISTENS AHOY

http://ourblockdistro.limitedpressing.com/

http://flawless417.bandcamp.com/

http://www.facebook.com/Flawless417

P.S. where have all the other music blogs gone? it seems they are derelict or deleted. Am i lamely occupying a dead neighborhood or am i valiantly carrying on where so many have fallen before me?

Street Smart Cyclist - Demo & Lint Traps

http://www.mediafire.com/?zct4ohwi4n6y6ef    http://www.mediafire.com/?37212dyzge4bv7w

Street Smart Cyclist was a band from Pennsylvania, around from 2005 to 2008. Some members went on to form the band Snowing. SSC made two albums, the demo and an acoustic album called Lint Traps. 

SSC is a band that seems to take as much from twinkly emo bands as it does from bands like Latterman. The group vocals part in Hoods Up (see below, from demo) reminds me of Latterman in the most lovely of ways.

I've been listening to this a lot lately.

http://www.myspace.com/streetsmartcyclist

Ridgemont - Colder Days

http://www.mediafire.com/?3c97bybl83vcw6y

Ridgemont is a band from Massachusetts. They play an awesome high-energy melodic pop-punk that falls somewhere around Latterman, RVIVR, and early Against Me! in terms of sound. Gruff vocals, fast tempos, great songs. I bet they'd be rad live.
This album came out in September via Kiss of Death Records, Mindless Records and Mission Social Club. They are touring in January with Escapist.

Max from Mindless Records emailed me asking if i would like to post about Ridgemont. Of course i would! He also sent me a vinyl copy of the album, which i am super stoked on right now.

Every time is a good time for some fantastic pop-punk

Bandcamp here http://ridgemont.bandcamp.com/

Purchase here http://www.facebook.com/mindlessrecords?sk=app_154070217987326

Quick Attack - Quick Attack!

http://www.mediafire.com/?02qbppcyn4dq51n

So i got an email from a member of a band called Quick Attack (from Santa Barbara), offering me a copy of their CD(s). Her name is Indiana. She is super nice and awesome so that is even more reason to listen to this!

This is Quick Attack's self-titled, 5 songs of pure raditude. Pop-punk, sounds kinda like Punkin Pie. You know like high-energy, super fun messy pop-punk. The best kind. I think 'Sevies' and 'Thunderheads' are my favourite songs. They also have a recent split that i am linking to below. Check it out!



http://quickattack.bandcamp.com/album/quick-attack
http://quickattack.bandcamp.com/album/quick-silver-attack-away-split

Eskalators - Never Break Down

http://www.mediafire.com/?ta1m3c6y4awtr1l

Apparently Eskalators is some kind of 13-plus-person musical collective from Brooklyn. Also apparently, they self-identify as "ironic bubblegum ska". Firstly, i fucking hate ska, and i really dont see this as ska at all. Unless you say any band with horns is ska. Which doesnt make sense. 

Honestly this EP sounds like a pop-punk version of Andrew Jackson Jihad with a lot more people made 4 awesome songs and then some weird momentarily reggaeish song at the end.

I don't even know whats going on anymore everything i say is just words

http://www.eskalators.com/

The Fucking Cops - You Have the Right to Shut The Fuck Up (2010)

 http://www.mediafire.com/?bc568uz48itcca8

The Fucking Cops is a pretty great pop-punk band. It has a couple members shared with Vietnam Werewolf, and so has some sound in common with them.
Honestly, i downloaded it on the strength of the band and album name. I was not at all disappointed, it is awesome. Check it out.

http://thefuckingcops.bandcamp.com/album/you-have-the-right-to-shut-the-fuck-up

Teenage Bottlerocket - Another Way (2003)

http://www.mediafire.com/?wmmynyiumxl
 

Teenage Bottlerocket is a great, Ramones-esque pop-punk band from Laramie, WY, formed by twin brothers Ray and Brandon Carlisle. Later, Kody Templeman of The Lillingtons also joined the band.

Another Way is their first full-length album.

"Pull the Plug" and "Opportunity" are standout tracks.

Vietnam Werewolf - Ohio's City

http://www.mediafire.com/?e4wadnh1o2j

Vietnam Werewolf is a band from Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to having a totally awesome name, they make totally awesome punk rock. Like a harder Latterman possibly, maybe mixed with a little Hot Water Music.
They released this album for free here.

'Patriotic Cancer' is a standout track.
 
 
I guess I haven't posted much recently. I will soon, don't fret.

Sourpatch - Crushin (2010)

http://www.mediafire.com/?jjimm3yqifk
 

Twee-punk-pop band from San Jose. I know very little about this band because their last.fm page has no info on it it, but the music is cute and a lot of fun.
From their myspace:

Sourpatch is a four piece 90's pop-worship ensemble from San Jose, Ca---whose songs talk of (but aren't limited to) crushes painfully hopeless, awkwardly awesome and feelings of the like...

We are nice! Give us coffee and food and we'll never stop being yr friend!

If you like Go Sailor, you'll like this too!


http://www.myspace.com/sourpatchpop 

Black Wine - Black Wine (2010)

http://www.mediafire.com/?zqzxzmxtejy

New band featuring Jeff Schroek (Jeff Erg, formerly of New Jersey punk legends The Ergs! (one of my favourite bands of all time)), as well as Miranda Taylor and J Nixon of Hunchback.

It sounds at times like... a different take on the sound from The Ergs!'s later Hindsight is 20/20 stuff (which is definitely a good thing), but with the addition of some lovely female vocals. This album is solid start to finish, i highly recommend it.

'Couch Critics' is a standout track.

http://www.myspace.com/blackwineband 
http://www.noidearecords.com/labels/dongiovanni.php