Nomads - Night​.​Owls​/​/​Mayhem​.​Aficionados​/​/​Death​.​Seekers EP (2012)

Genre: Hardcore/Punk/Metal

Website: Facebook/Bandcamp 

Similar Sound: ACxDC/Nails

 

Track Listing:

1) Insomaniac

2) Slaughterhouse

3) Rot

 

Info:

Auditory Annihilation.

One of the best bands right now coming out of Los Angeles, California.

Their recent split with TREACHEROUSKIN has many people waiting

for their upcoming release in the fall.

If you love drugs, violence, and raw, fast, punk.

This is your band. 

 

 

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Brighter Arrows - Dreamliner (2013)

Genre: Emo/Alternative/Post-Rock

Website: Facebook/Tumblr 

Similar Sound: You'll Live/Locktender

 

Track Listing:

1) Every Hour, Every Day

2) The Occupation

3) Visitation

4) Vangelis China

5) Noshowme Shoshone

6) Half Memory

7) Splendor Beyond Compare

8) Submission

9) Dreamliner

 

 

Info:

Brighter Arrows follow up their 2012 releases with a darker, more ambitious, more dynamic and more expansive full length LP.

A bit different from Division And What It Is To Abide, but however, this

side of Brighter Arrows shows a different side of their awesome music.

 

 

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Turnstile - Step 2 Rhythm (2013)

Genre: Hardcore/Punk/NYHC

Website: Facebook/Bandcamp 

Similar Sound: Soul Search/Trapped Under Ice

 

Track Listing:

1) 7

2) Keep It Moving

3) Canned Heat

4) Pushing Me Away

5) Better Way

6) Snaked

7) Step To Rhythm

 

Info:

Turnstile is a young band from the Baltimore/DC area. For fans of Madball and Leeway, Turnstile delivers a unique mix of heavy and groovy. Formed in the late summer of 2010, the band has released a demo catching the ears of many audiences. The impelling riffs, catchy rhythms, and driving vocals bring out a sound that will make you jump.

 

 

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Backtrack - Darker Half (2011)

Genre: Hardcore/Punk/NYHC

Website: Tumblr/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Expire/Foundation

 

Track Listing:

1) The Worst Of Both Worlds

2) Life's Plan

3) Too Close

4) Violent Split

5) The Greater Good

6) Scratch The Past

7) Darker Half

8) Hard To See

9) Erase The Rat

10) Enough To Know

11) Soul Sucker

12) Red Handed

  13) Retrace The Lines (CD Bonus)

14) Drawn Back To Misery (CD Bonus)

15) The Roots Of Evil (CD Bonus)

16) Welcome To The Pound (CD Bonus)

17) Deal With The Devil (CD Bonus)

18) Organized Crimes (CD Bonus)

19) Standing On Two Feet Demo (CD Bonus)

20) Kept Out Demo (CD Bonus)

21) Different Direction Demo (CD Bonus)

22) Another Way Back Demo (CD Bonus)

23) Paused Progress Demo (CD Bonus)

 

Info:

Uncompromising NYHC flag-bearers, Backtrack, have been working hard on their debut CD/LP, "Darker Half." Their album-titled single has already made its way around blogs, music news sites and message boards with more singles to be released all the way through street date. Since their 2008 demo release, they've released a string of 7"s, giving them three full years to hone their Long Island-inspired brand of NYHC for their first full-length.

 

 

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Citizen - Youth (2013)

Genre: Punk/Alternative/Indie

Website: Bandcamp/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Seahaven/Turnover

  

Track Listing:

1) Roam The Room

2) Figure You Out

3) The Summer

4) Sleep

5) How Does It Feel?

6) The Night I Drove Alone

7) Speaking With A Ghost

8) Your Head Got Misplaced

9) Sick And Impatient

10) Drawn Out

 

Info:

pop punk/Indie band from the Southeast Michigan/ Northwest Ohio area. They are currently Signed to Run For Cover Records

The band effortlessly blurs lines from crashing Foo Fighters-esque drums and and loud guitars to quiet, emotive twinkling breaks akin to peers Basement and Title Fight but with their own midwestern personality.

 

 

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Creative Adult - Bulls In The Yard EP (2013)

Genre: Punk/Alternative/Hardcore

Website: Official Website/Twitter 

Similar Sound: Ceremony/Bauhaus
 

Track Listing:

1) Bulls In The Yard

2) Consumes Itself

3) Chemical Glow

4) Rushing Toward The Cemetery
 

Info:

Following the success of their debut 7” “Dead Air”, California North Bay’ers, Creative Adult, are announcing the release of their latest EP Bulls In The Yard with the premiere of their first single “Rushing Towards The Cemetery”.

the band goes down the vibing, manic path of their debut and wanders further into flourishes of contemplative effects – laden post punk.

Awesome Band. Check them out.

  

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Power Trip - Manifest Decimation (2013)

Genre: Metal/Thrash/Crossover

Website: Bandcamp/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Vio-Lence/Fire & Ice

Track Listing:

1) Manifest Decimation

2) Heretic's Fork

3) Conditioned To Death

4) Murderer's Row

5) Crossbreaker

6) Drown

7) Power Trip

8) The Hammer Of Doubt

  

Info:

Formed in early 2008, POWER TRIP is a crossover band from Dallas, Texas in the vein of late 80’s thrash, heavy metal and hardcore punk. For fans of Exodus, Vio-Lence, later Cro-Mags, and Prong.

Power Trip’s debut full length Manifest Destiny lays not a claim to total conquest for one bloodline, but a deterministic blood prophecy of planetary destruction by riff and simply put, it’s one of the best thrash records I’ve heard in a long time.

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Xibalba - Hasta La Muerte (2012)

Genre: Hardcore/Heavy Metal

Website: Facebook/Twitter 

Similar Sound: Nails/Palm

 

Track Listing:

 1) No Serenity

2) Soledad

3) Laid To Rest

4) Burn

5) Sentenced

6) The Flood

7) Hasta La Muerte

8) Mala Mujer

9) Stoneheart

10) Lujuria

11) Cold

 

Info:

Xibalba is a heavy hardcore/metal band from Pomona California

The Pomona, Calif., doom-inflected hardcore quintet Xibalba seem to understand this, and when they keep things straightforward, they're very good at making youth-crew songs that stick (and make you want to do anything but sit still).

Nothing on Hasta La Muerte will change the course of music, no, but Xibalba's the sort of hardcore group that has a pretty great chance of changing a few individual worlds.

Awesome record. Check them out!

 

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The Meteors - Wreckin' Crew (1983)

Genre: Psychobilly/Rockabilly/Punk

Website: Facebook/Meteors Fan Site 

Similar Sound: P. Paul Fenech/Demented Are Go

  

Track Listing:

1) Insane

2) I Ain't Ready

3) Johnny Remember Me

4) I Don't Worry About It

5) Axe Attack

6) Zombie Noise

7) Rattle Snakin' Daddy

8) When A Stranger Calls

9) Phantom Of The Opera

10) Blue Sunshine

11) Wreckin' Crew

12) Sick Things

13) Wild Thing

14) I'm Not Mad/Get Off My Cloud

15) Mutant Rock

16) Hills Have Eyes

17) Fear Of The Dark

18) Scream Of The Mutants
 

Info:

The Meteors are a psychobilly band from the United Kingdom, who are often credited with giving the genre its distinctive sound. Although the origins of psychobilly are debatable, the Meteors consider themselves the first and only psychobilly band. Fans of the band are known to use the slogan “Only the Meteors are pure psychobilly” (often shortened to just “OTMAPP”) as a rallying cry.


 

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Chain Of Flowers - Sleep EP (2013)

Genre: Shoegaze/Punk/Alternative

Website: Facebook/Official 

Similar Sound: The Cure/Wavves

 

Track Listing:

1) Sleep

2) Slide

3) Clutching The Night

  

Info:

The new project from Welsh hardcore heroes Crossbreaker's frontman Josh Smith recently made their live debut, supporting Milk Music and Eagulls at Clwb Ifor Bach. It was an excellent fit - the one track that's online at present is indie grunge personified - which means catchy as hell and delectably full-throttle.
NME
Smart money says this is the next band that’ll rise above the rest by word of mouth alone with a lead vocalist channeling the aura of a Morrissey or Ian Curtis.
Louder Than War


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My Iron Lung - Grief EP (2012)

Genre: Emo/Hardcore/Screamo

Website: Facebook/Tumblr

Similar Sound: Touche Amore/You'll Live

  

Track Listing:

1) Broken Homes

2) Clementine

3) Family Traits

4) Late Bloomers, Early Caskets

5) Here's To The Collaborative Efforts Made By All Things Under The Sun

 

Info:

My Iron Lung is a new band out of San Diego, California. Formed in 2010 by former members of bands such as A Better Hope Foundation, Heritage, and Crowne Hill; Doug, Matthew, Justin, and David are well on their way to becoming a force to be reckoned with in the busy Southern California music scene. My Iron Lung’s debut EP, No Such Thing, drops on the first day of 2011. 

Along with their recent release Grief EP.

This band is amazing.

 

 

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AFI - A Fire Inside EP (1998)

Genre: Alternative/Punk/Rock

Website: Official/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Son Of Sam/Aiden

  

Track Listing:

1) 3 1/2

2) Over Exposure

3) The Hanging Garden

4) Demonomania

 

Info:

A Fire Inside is an EP by American rock band AFI. It was released on September 29, 1998 through Nitro Records. The EP title is a quote from the introductory track on their previous album Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes, as well as the band name's permanent abbreviation. The EP includes two original songs and two covers.
One of AFI's more raw and gritty releases.
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Jawbreaker - Bivouac (1992)

Genre: Punk/Rock/Emo

Website: Official/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Lifetime/Jets To Brazil
 

Track Listing:

1) Shield Your Eyes

2) Big

3) Chesterfield King

4) Sleep

5) Donatello

6) Face Down

7) P.S. New York Is Burning

8) Like A Secret

9) Tour Song

10) You Don't Know...

11) Pack It Up

12) Parabola

13) Bivouac
 

Info:

Jawbreaker was an American punk rock band from San Francisco, California, United States. The band has its root in Los Angeles, CA, where Blake Schwarzenbach and Adam Pfahler were students at the exclusive private Crossroads High School. The band came together when they met Chris Bauermeister at New York University in 1988.


 

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Hightide Hotel - Secret Somethings Vol. 2 (2011)

Genre: Emo/Indie/Rock

Website: Facebook/Tumblr 

Similar Sound: By Surprise/Snowing

  

Track Listing:

1) Intro 

2) Ballad

3) Ultimatum

4) Hollow

5) Your Bed

6) My Bed

7) Hospital Green

8) Malice

9) Closer

10) Outro

Info:

Hightide Hotel is an emo band from Philadelphia. Members include Benjamin Schmidt, Christopher Thomas, and David Sampson. Former member - Nathaniel Dionne.

They are releasing one more full-length entitled “Naturally” in 2013 before disbanding.

Check them out!

 

 

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Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (2002)

 Genre: Emo/Indie/Alternative

Website: Official/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Brand New/Bayside
 

Track Listing:

1) You Know How I Do

2) Bike Scene

3) Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team)

4) There's No 'I' In Team

5) Great Romances Of The 20th Century

6) Ghost Man On Third

7) Timberwolves At New Jersey

8) The Blue Channel

9) You're So Last Summer

10) Head Club

Info:

Taking Back Sunday originally formed on Long Island, New York, USA in 1999. The band has gone through several lineup changes. Their first release came in 2001 with the Taking Back Sunday EP, and featured Antonio Longo on vocals, John Nolan on guitar and backing vocals, Eddie Reyes on guitar (the original founder of the band), Jesse Lacey, Adam Lazzara and Mark O’Connell replaced Stevie D) they released the follow-up album Tell All Your Friends, which was produced by Sal Villaneuva. The album gave the band a first taste of success in the scene. 


 

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Forrest - Before You Go EP (2012)

Genre: Emo/Alternative/Punk

Website: Facebook/Bandcamp 

Similar Sound: Sunny Day Real Estate/Turnover
 

Track Listing:

1) Nothing More To Say

2) September

3) Hope

4) Five To Nine

5) Hearts And Minds

6)  Forget

Info:

Alternative/Emo from South Wales heavily influenced by the sounds of Brand New and Sunny Day Real Estate.
Before You Go 7” out on Something New Records and What We Should Be Doing.
And a split with Irish Folk/punk The Winter Passing, on Guys With Beards Records.


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Ruiner - Prepare To Be Let Down (2007)

Genre: Hardcore/Punk/Melodic Hardcore

Website: Facebook/Myspace 

Similar Sound: Life Long Tragedy/Killing The Dream

 

Track Listing:

1) Prepare To Be Let Down

2) Bottom Line: Fuck You

3) The Lives We Fear

4)  That Stone Better Be On Fire

5) 40 Miles North

6) A Song For Beggars

7) A Long Time Coming

8) Repetition

9) Choke On It

10) When The Mourning Ends

11) Sleepless

12) Kiss That Motherfucker Goodnight

Info:

Ruiner was a fast, but Melodic Hardcore band from Baltimore, Maryland. They released three LPs(I Heard These Dudes Are Assholes, Prepare To Be Let Down, and Hell Is Empty). They also released two EPs(What Could Possibly Go Right, and Dead Weight).

 

Ruiner's fairly hyped, proper Bridge 9 debut might come as a bit of a surprise to anyone who skipped over the album's teaser 7", The Lives We Fear, released several weeks ago. The band hasn't necessarily gone any sort of drastic stylistic makeover -- they're still playing fast and foreboding, semi-melodic hardcore in the form of desperate heartwrenching moment after desperate heartwrenching moment, but a few traits have been tweaked along the way.

 

 

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Daylight - Jar (2013)

Genre: Grunge/Emo/Alternative

Website: Bandcamp/Daylight Official 

Similar Sound: Title Fight/Basement

 

Track Listing:

1) Sponge

2) Life In A Jar

3) Outside Of Me

4) Sheltered

5) Crawl

6) Last October 

7) Youngest Daughter

8) Knew

9) No One's Deserving

10) Hole In The Ground

11) In On It

12) Around The Railing

Info:

Daylight is a band from Doylestown, PA. Channeling alternative bands from the 90s, punk bands from the 80s and adding their own current attitude, Daylight comes at you with catchy riffs and hooks that will make you want to scream out every word. Pennsylvania keeps churning out amazing young bands and Daylight can be added to the top of the list. Their debut full length LP is due out the spring of 2013.

 

 

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Kite Party - Baseball Season (2011)

Genre: Alternative/Indie/Rock

Website: Facebook/Bandcamp 

Similar Sound: Hard Girls/The Clippers

Track Listing:
1) Welcome To Miami
2) Runner
3) Spirit Gum
4) Buried In Dogs
5) Arizona
6) Hightower
7) Southpaw
8) Jaws Of Life
9) We Won't Survive

Info:
Kite Party's new album, Baseball Season is a meditation on love, loss, and the daily struggles of being in a band whose name is perpetually misread as Katy Perry. 
Something you can't miss up on.


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Zombie Ghost Train - Glad Rags & Body Bags (2006)

  Genre: Psychobilly/Horror/Punk

Website: Facebook/Myspace 

Similar Sound: Rezurex/The Quakes

Track Listing:

1) Glad Rags & Body Bags

2) R.I.P.

3) Dark TImes

4) Graveyard Queen

5) Black White And Dead

6) Deadcat Rumble

7) Girl U Want

8) Alone

9) Night Time Crawling

10) Zombie Beach

11) Gone

12) Buried Next To The King

13) You're My Baby

Info:

Zombie Ghost Train was an Australian psychobilly and gothabilly band located in Sydney, NSW, Australia. The band formed with Stu Arkoff (guitars and vocals), Azzy T (drums), and Captain Reckless (bass and backing vocals). In 2007, Azzy T left to pursue other musical ventures and was replaced by JM. The band released two albums, Glad Rags & Body Bags and Dealing the Death Card, as well as the EP Monster Formal Wear.


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Tiger Army - Tiger Army S/T (2000)

Genre: Psychobilly/Punk/Rockabilly

Website: Official Website/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Nekromantix/Mad Sin

 

Track Listing:

1) Prelude: Nightfall

2) Nocturnal

3) Fog Surrounds

4) True Romance

5) Devil Girl

6) Never Die

7) Moonlite Dreams

8) Trance

9) Twenty Flight Rock

10) WereCat

11) Outlaw Heart

12) Neobamboom

13) Last Night

 

Info:

Tiger Army is an American Psychobilly band that was formed in 1995 in Berkeley, California. Its constant member and lead song writer is Nick 13. The band have released a total of four studio albums and one EP. Psychobilly is a fusion genre of rock music that mixes elements of punk rock, rockabilly, and other genres.

 

 

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Jawbreaker - Unfun (1990)

 Genre: Punk/Rock/Emo

Website:Official Website/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Lifetime/Jets To Brazil
 

Track Listing:

1) Want

2) Seethruskin

3) Fine Day

4) Incomplete

5) Imaginary War

6) Busy

7) Softcore

8) Driven

9) Wound

10) Down

11) Gutless

12) Drone

13) Lawn

14) Crane

15) Eye-5
 

Info:

Jawbreaker was an American punk rock band from San Francisco, California, United States. The band has its root in Los Angeles, CA, where Blake Schwarzenbach and Adam Pfahler were students at the exclusive private Crossroads High School. The band came together when they met Chris Bauermeister at New York University in 1988.


 

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Killing The Dream - Fractures (2008)

Genre: Hardcore/Melodic Hardcore

 Website: Facebook/Myspace

Similar Sound: Life Long Tragedy/Ruiner

 

Track Listing:

1) (Re)acquaintance

2) Part II (Motel Art)

3) Fractures

4) Thirty Four Seconds

5) Consequence (What Comes Next)

6) Everything But Everything

7) Hang The Jury

8) We Were

9) You're All Welcome

10) Thirteen Steps

11) Holding The Claws

12) Resolution

 

Info:

Sacramento’s Killing the Dream are an inspiring and passionate hardcore band. Embodying the same positive emotion found in contemporaries Comeback Kid and Bane, Killing The Dream’s approach is the definition of hardcore power. Making even the most jaded of listeners appreciate and praise them as their new hardcore heroes in the making.They play with passion and energy, using both elements of punk and metal to gain their unique sound.

 

 

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Transit - Something Left Behind (2011)

Genre: Pop Punk/Indie/Rock

Website: Bandcamp/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Man Overboard/Fireworks

 

Track Listing:

1) Indoor Voices

2) Please, Head North (Acoustic)

3) For The World (Acoustic)

4) Just Go, Just Leave

5) Castaway (Acoustic)

6) Hope This Finds You Well (Acoustic)

7) Stay Home (Acoustic)

8) Something Left Behind

9) 1978

 

Info:

Transit is an American pop-punk group based out of Boston, MA along the lines of Taking Back Sunday, Saves The Day, Crime In Stereo, Balance & Composure, Polar Bear Club, and Hot Water Music. Transit has released three full-length albums: 2008’s This Will Not Define Us, 2010’s Keep This to Yourself and 2011’s Listen & Forgive. Other releases include 2011’s Record Store Day limited edition 7” Promise Nothing, the acoustic EP Something Left Behind, 2009’s Stay Home EP, 2007’s Let It Out EP, a split 7” with Man Overboard, and a self-titled 4 song demo. They are currently signed to Rise Records.

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Daytrader - Twelve Years (2012)

Genre: Pop Punk/Indie/Emo

Website: Facebook/Bandcamp 

Similar Sound: Misser/Turnover

 

Track Listing:

1) Deadfriends

2) If You Need It

3) Firebreather

4) Skin & Bones

5) Lost Between The Coasts

6) After-Image

7) Struggle With Me

8) Silver Graves

9) Heard It In A Song

10) Letter To A Former Lover

 

Info:

Daytrader was a punk band from Brooklyn, NY… They debuted a three song demo in September 2010 and released an EP entitled “Last Days of Rome” in January 2011, citing influences such as Jimmy Eat World, Sunny Day Real Estate, Further Seems Forever, Saves the Day and Hot Water Music. Their debut LP, “Twelve Years”, was released May 8th, 2012 on Rise Records.

On November 9th 2012, after losing vocalist Tym a month prior, the band announced that they had parted ways. Tym went on to form a new band, Some Stranger

 

 

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Social Distortion - Social Distortion (1990)

Genre: Punk/Alternative/Punk Rock

Website: Official Website/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Mike Ness/Rancid

 

Track Listing:

1) So Far Away

2) Let It Be Me

3) Story Of My Life

4) Sick Boys

5) Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash Cover)

6) Ball And Chain

7) It Coulda Been Me

8) She's A Knockout

9) A Place In My Heart

10) Drug Train

 

Info:

 Social Distortion was formed in late 1978 by frontman Mike Ness, inspired by British punk bands and also by older acts such as The Rolling Stones. The original lineup consisted of Ness on lead guitar, Rikk and Frank Agnew on guitars, and Casey Royer on drums. Ness met Dennis Danell, who was a year older, in high school and insisted he join the band on bass guitar even though Danell had never played an instrument before. When Danell was brought in, Frank, Rikk, and Casey left to join The Adolescents. Mike and Dennis remained the only constant members for the next two decades with bass and drum members changing every few years. The Adolescents song "Kids of the Black Hole" and Social Distortion song "The Playpen" chronicled this period of the band's history.

 

 

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Touché Amoré - ...To The Beat Of A Dead Horse (2009)

Genre: Post Hardcore/Screamo

Website: Official Website/Facebook 

Similar Sound: La Dispute/Pianos Become The Teeth

Track Listing:

1) And Now It's Happening In Mine

2) Honest Sleep

3) Cadence

4) Throwing Copper

5) Swimming With Sharks

6) History Reshits Itself

7) Suckerfish

8) Broken Records

9) Nine

10) Always Running Never Looking Back

11) Adieux

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Touché Amoré is an American post-hardcore band that was formed in 2007. The band consists of lead vocalist Jeremy Bolm, guitarists Clayton Stevens and Nick Steinhardt, with Tyler Kirby on bass guitar and drummer Elliot Babin. They have released two studio albums and several EPs. They released ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse in 2009 and their second album Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me was released in 2011.

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Caspian - Waking Season (2012)

Genre: Post Rock/Indie/Experimental

Website: Bandcamp/Official Website 

Similar Sound: This Will Destroy You/Gifts From Enola

 

Track Listing:

1) WakingSeason

2) Procellous

3) Gone In Bloom And Bough

4) Halls Of The Summer

5) Akiko

6) High Lonesome

7) Hickory '54

8) Long The Desert Mile

9) Collider In Blue

10) Fire Made Flesh

Info:

Caspian is an American instrumental rock band from Beverly, Massachusetts. The band formed in Autumn of 2003 and played their first concert in August of 2004.

 

Caspian loosely formed in Autumn of 2003 in Beverly, Massachusetts, developing material through the first year of its existence, recording a demo in May 2004 and performing a small number of shows in late 2004 and early 2005, including a support for the Japanese post-rock band Mono. The band’s first performance took place at The Pickled Onion in Beverly, Massachusetts on August 26, 2004. At the time the band had not yet chosen the name Caspian and were looking for a vocalist.

 

 

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Tiger Army - The Early Years EP (2002)

Genre: Psychobilly/Alternative/Rockabilly

Website: Official Website/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Nekromantix/Mad Sin

 

Track Listing:

1) Temptation

2) Jungle Cat

3) Twenty Flight Rock (Eddie Cochran Cover)

4) American Nightmare (Misfits Cover)

5) F.T.W (Demo Version)

6) Nocturnal (Demo Version)

 

Info:

Tiger Army is a psychobilly band from California. They have a very devoted following, as evidenced by the hundreds of photos of Tiger Army-related tattoos that can be found on the band’s MySpace page and website. Their fourth album Music From Regions Beyond spawned the band’s first radio single, “Forever Fades Away,” which went to #1 on L.A.’s influential KROQ FM. The video for the track was seen on MTV2 and Fuse TV.

 

 

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The Reverend Horton Heat (1990)

Genre: Rockabilly/Psychobilly/Country

Website: Official Website/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers/HillBilly Hellcats

 

Track Listing:

1) Bullet

2) I'm Mad

3) Bad Reputation

4) It's A Dark Day

5) Big Dwarf Rodeo

6) Psychobilly Freakout

7) Put It To Me Straight

8) Marijuana

9) Baby You Know Who

10) Eat Steak

11) D For Dangerous

12) Love Whip

 

Info:

The Reverend Horton Heat is both an American three-piece psychobilly band from Dallas, Texas, and the stage name of its singer/songwriter, Jim Heath (born in 1959 in Corpus Christi, Texas).

The group originally formed in 1985, playing its first gigs in Dallas’s Deep Ellum neighborhood. Its current members are Jim “Reverend Horton” Heath on guitar and lead vocals, Jimbo Wallace on the upright bass, and Scott Churilla on drums. Through relentless touring and a manic stage show, they have established themselves as one of the most popular underground acts in America. Their sound is self described as “Country-fed punkabilly.” Their music is a mixture of country, punk, big band, swing, and rockabilly, all played loud and energetically with lyrics that are often very humorous.

 

 

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AFI - Shut Your Mouth And Open Your Eyes (1997)

Genre: Hardcore/Punk

Website: Facebook/Despair Faction

Similar Sound: Tiger Army/Son Of Sam

 

Track Listing:

1) Keep Out Of Direct Sunlight (An Introduction)

2) Three Reasons

3) A Single Second

4) pH Low

5) Let It Be Broke

6) Third Season

7) Lower Your Head And Take It In The Body

8) Coin Return

9) The New Patron Saints And Angels

10) Three Seconds Notice

11) Salt For Your Wounds

12) Today's Lesson

13) The Devil Loves You

14) Triple Zero

 

Info:

 AFI (A Fire Inside) is an American punk rock/alternative rock band from Ukiah, CA that formed in 1991. Their career progression has taken them through notable and drastic changes in music styles from hardcore punk/horror punk to punk rock to alternative rock.

 

 

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Black Feathers - S/T EP (2011)

Genre: Hardcore

Website: Bandcamp/Facebook 

Similar Sound: Easy Way Out/Bad Seed

 

Track Listing:

1) Black Feathers

2) Only The Realest

3) True Friends

4) Family Tree

5) Get Educated

 

Info:

Black Feathers is a hardcore band based out of Perkasie, PA. Formed in the late Spring of 2010. That summer, they wrote and recorded their demo at Lonely Road Studio. The 2010 Demo was later released on cassette tapes through Get Real Records.

 

 

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Daylight - The Difference In Good And Bad Dreams (2012)

Genre: Grunge/Emo/Post Hardcore

Website: Bandcamp/Daylight Official

Similar Sound: Basement/Title Fight
 

Track Listing:

1) On The Way To Dads

2) Hungry At A Funeral

3) Damp

4) In My Dreams
  

Info:

Daylight is a band from Doylestown, PA. Channeling alternative bands from the 90s, punk bands from the 80s and adding their own current attitude, Daylight comes at you with catchy riffs and hooks that will make you want to scream out every word. Pennsylvania keeps churning out amazing young bands and Daylight can be added to the top of the list. Their debut full length LP is due out the spring of 2013.

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The Early November - In Currents (2012)

Genre: Emo/Indie/Rock

Website: Official/Soundcloud 

Similar Sound: The Starting Line/The Dangerous Summer
  

Track Listing:

1) A Stain On The Carpet

2) Frayed In Doubt

3) In Currents

4) Digital Age

5) Tell Me Why

6) Close To You

7) Guilt & Swell

8) That's Not Your Real Name

9) Like A Kid

10) Smell Of This Place

11) Wearing The Tie

12) Call Off The Bells
  

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The Early November is an American pop-punk band from Hammonton, New Jersey. The group formed in 1999 and signed with Drive-Thru Records in 2002. As of 2006, they have released two EPs (2002's For All of This and 2002's The Acoustic EP), as well as two full-length albums (2003's The Room's Too Cold and 2006's triple album The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path). Their latest effort debuted at No. 31 on the Billboard 200. They also participated in the Vans Warped Tour in 2002–2004 and 2006. They are currently signed with Rise Records and released a new album entitled In Currents on July 10, 2012.

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Things Fall Apart - Keep Calm (2012)

Genre: Skramz/Post Hardcore/Emo

Website: Facebook/Bandcamp

Similar Sound: Vowel/State Faults

 

Track Listing:

1) Sun Dress

2) Walhalla

3) M.D.I.G.

4) Virginia Woolf

5) Earth Day

 

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Not much info about the band. They're from Ohio and release music.

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Title Fight - Floral Green (2012)

 

Genre: Melodic Hardcore/Emo/Punk

Website: Tumblr/Twitter 

Similar Sound: Basement/Jawbreaker

Track Listing:

1) Numb, But I Still Feel It

2) Leaf

3) Like A Ritual

4) Secret Society

5) Head In The Ceiling Fan

6) Make You Cry

7) Sympathy

8) Frown

9) Calloused

10) Lefty

11) In-Between

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Title Fight is a band from Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA formed in 2003 that combines elements of punk, melodic hardcore, pop punk, and emo. Title Fight plays music in the vein of Jawbreaker, Kid Dynamite and Lifetime, taking influence from such melodic punk rock acts as Saves the Day and emo bands Knapsack and Seaweed. They are currently signed to Side One Dummy records and will be embarking on their first headlining cross-country summer tour starting May 19th. They released a new 3-song 7” The Last Thing You Forget on June 23rd, as well as a CD released on July 10th, compiling all of their releases to date: 2007’s split CD with The Erection Kids and 2008’s Kingston EP (available on iTunes), both released on Flight Plan Records. The CD also includes the previously unreleased songs “Western Haikus,” “Introvert,” “Symmetry,” and “No One Stays at the Top Forever.” Their first full-length, Shed, came out on May 3rd, 2011. Their newest album “Floral Green” came out on September 18th, 2012 on Side One Dummy.

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