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

Letters Home - Take Your Time

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Letters Home is a mathy punk band from Tallahassee, Florida. I was sent this album by bandmember David. This album is super cool, it's like a mathy, punkier version of Built to Spill. If you don't know Built to Spill, you should. But that's beside the point. This is a great EP, Letters Home is a really cool band, and i hope to hear more of them.

LISTENS AHOY

Voices - No Longer Capable

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Voices was a melodic hardcore band from Calgary. I know some of the dudes who were in it. I think they might be fans of Ruiner. I mean really, everyone should be fans of Ruiner.

VOICES

JTT - S/T 7"

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Okay now it seems like in addition to the bogus mediafire DMCA takedowns, opendrive deleted my account or something. What a pain. Anyway im using the native Bandcamp streaming format for the time being.

Anyway! I was recently talking with my friend Indiana Laub of Quick Attack! / Secret Pennies Records, and she sent me another pack of awesome music from her label! She is the best.
Among those albums was this album, by Oregon band JTT. I have listened to this album several times through already tonight, it is a great EP - sort of a gruff melodic punk thing.

I am consistently amazed at the music Secret Pennies puts out. Check it out, buy some tapes and albums! You won't be disappointed.

Bummer - Kids On The Run

http://www.mediafire.com/?ocijcjxt0cdebt3

Bummer is a lo-fi/emo/pop-punky band from Montreal. I was sent this album by the band, so please enjoy! It's a four song EP, and it is very solid.

http://bummermtl.bandcamp.com/

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

Kansas City 4 Way

http://www.mediafire.com/?46i4newi1qinb8i

4 way split from The Ghost Is Clear Records, featuring Texas Instruments, Baitfish, Battle Royale, and Regret, The Informer. The four bands showcase different styles on the spectrum of post-hardcore, hardcore, emo, and punk.

http://theghostisclearrecords.bigcartel.com/

http://theghostisclearrecords.bandcamp.com/

Caseracer - Caseracer (2012)

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Caseracer is from Delaware and parts of New Jersey. Pretty great gruff punk rock band. 

http://caseracer.bandcamp.com/

http://caseracer.org/

EDIT: More links courtesy of my anonymous pal below:

GET THIS ON CASSETTE! http://jeremyrecords.limitedrun.com/products/16548-caseracer-caseracer

GET THIS ON VINYL!
http://startsomethingnj.storenvy.com/products/332051-caseracer-s-t-7

GET THIS ON CD!
http://startsomethingnj.storenvy.com/products/262310-caseracer-s-t-cd

Environmental Youth Crunch - Let's Ride

http://www.mediafire.com/?e1dp3mje8pe1234

Environmental Youth Crunch is (was?) a band from Florida. I learned about them a million years ago from a split they did with Defiance, Ohio. As i mentioned then, i had trouble finding anything else from this band. Well i found it, at No Idea. It is pretty cool, kind of Young Pioneers-y southern-punk-rock.

http://www.myspace.com/environmentalyouthcrunch appears to be their website, although it seems they go by the name 'Vicious Fishes' now?

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

Lumber Lung - Lumber Lung

 http://www.mediafire.com/?x4437wpzjwtdfax

Lumber Lung is a punk band from Santa Barbara. They are kind of like if RVIVR swapped out some (but not all) of their pop-punk sound for some melodic hardcore. Super awesome!



http://lumberlungmusic.bandcamp.com/

Preying Hands - Through the Dark

http://www.mediafire.com/?i9229ks0nt914rl

Preying Hands, from Montreal, is 3/5ths of Ballast. They are similar to Ballast in that they have a sort of crust-influenced hardcore punk thing going on. It might not be everyone's thing but the rhythm of the songs is so good. It's really great driving music especially.

http://www.myspace.com/preyinghands

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

Ages - Sleep On It

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7a6wye11sz8xm9g

Ages is a melodic hardcore band from Cleveland. Reminiscent of Ruiner (who we miss every day) and Defeater. 

This whole album is ten songs but only 14 minutes long. They are short songs. In fact, the longest song is 1:55.

http://agescleveland.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-on-it

The Dirtys - You Should Be Sinnin' (1997)

http://www.mediafire.com/?u5ln1m80s5zmss2

The Dirtys was a garage-punk band from Port Huron, Michigan. They released one album and broke up.

This sounds kind of like The Reatards, or a way crazier MC5.
Way fuckin high-energy

Dikembe - Chicago Bowls

http://www.mediafire.com/?osc7ovt2iu93o6p

Dikembe is a rad band from Gainesville, Florida. Kind of a punkish emo sound. This is apparently a night for really awesome 4-song EP's. I don't have a clue what's going on in the album cover picture, but there it is.
Also, they open and close the EP with soundclips from Freaks and Geeks. Which was an awesome show.




http://dikembe.bandcamp.com/

Air Raid Barcelona - Air Raid Barcelona

 http://www.mediafire.com/?61y3yvansak8fbv

Air Raid Barcelona was a band, for a while. They recorded precisely 4 songs. This is a really fucking cool demo, it's too bad this is all there is. This EP is posted for free on IfYouMakeIt.
Kind of Latterman-ish or Jawbreaker-y.





http://www.myspace.com/airraidbarcelona