From the moment this record starts you know you're in for something special. I felt the hairs on my arm start to stand straight up just from the opening track. Like Sick Shooters somehow managed to electrically charge the air itself, like when lightening is about to strike. And mother nature didn't lie to me, struck that lightening did indeed. Not only is the opening riff for the first tune on this record, "Heartbreaker Soulshaker" impossibly catchy, but the production on this album has that perfect amount of dirty fuzz rubbed all over it. The greatness of this LP doesn't stop there though, these young 20 something Nederlanders punch out 11 songs crammed into one stellar rock n' roll record and not a rotten egg in the carton. Did I mention this is their debut LP by the way! Way to knock it out of the park at first swing! Apparently these dudes come from the bands Spurn, Ultragoblin, and NO BRAINS. I don't know if that means anything to anyone, it really ...

A week ago, I knew absolutely nothing about Station Model Violence, zero, zip. However, it's bands like this that are the reason I started writing about music and built a platform on which to do it on. I got several emails, all from different people urging me to check this band out. I hate to say I love a good buzz band and it seems like Station Model Violence has folks getting the tingles on several continents.  The band is from Sydney and has members of Total Control, DEN, and R.M.F.C. They've been called "supergroup" but that doesn't mean squat to me. You know how many "supergroups" I've heard that stink up the room something awful? Well, let's just say it's enough for me to squint my eyes and think, supergroup huh? Well, we'll see about that! I mean, I thought Total Control were kind of a "supergroup" already as well? One of the things I found so interesting is that a lot of  the songs have such a different feel to them. The...

Paradox Intact  is the band's first release since 2020 I believe . This is when their remarkable The Perfect Candidate LP   came out . So if I'm counting correctly, this would make it Miscalculations sixth long player since their debut dropped back in 2013. I mention this not because the band is starting to sound trite or dull after so many releases, quite the opposite in fact. Shaun Clark and Marco Palumbo Rodrigues jump back into the melee head first with fists tightened and teeth clenched. On this much anticipated new record, the band's resolve appears herculean, vision seems clearer, and direction is locked in and focused. Like urban nocturnal hunters honing in on their prey in the darkest of moonless nights. The band continues to take us down a rainy, dimly lit, neo-futuristic world with songs that evoke only the most ruinous of human emotions. Most of the time the tracks on this record have the bass guitar guiding the way through the murky waters like Charon th...

Mod Lang - Borrowed Time LP - (Just Add Water Records) There is something so wonderfully refreshing about the ten songs here on this record that Detroit's Mod Lang and Just Add Water Records have masterfully collected and decided to gift the undeserving world. This record's got mid 70"s stomp and roll with thick heel drum beats and melodies so bright you can almost feel the warmth of the sun shining on your face. Like on a long, carefree summers day when you and your friends decide to drive to the local Dairy Queen with the top down. And the biggest priority in your life is how you're going to get noticed by that one person you want to notice you. And you keep debating weather or not to go to that lame ass party across town that you normally wouldn't go, but you heard they might be there. And that changes everything. Mod Lang remind me musically of early 70's bands like the Scottish band Middle Of The Road. Since we're on the subject of 70's and Scotla...

Los Pepes Two bands that I've been really digging lately have been London's Los Pepes and Philly's Dark Thoughts. For whatever reason, when I hear one, I am instantly put in the mood for the other and both band's new LP's have been following the other for months now. It's like both bands have such a complimentary (or if it was 2000 I'd use the word "simpatico") sound to one another. Is it the fact that they are both melodic punk bands? Or dare I say "Pop Punk" bands? I would prefer the former over the latter in this case. No disrespect to the proud pop punkers, I mean it.  Dark Thoughts To me, when someone says the term "pop punk" an instant image forms in my head of a 16 year old kid with baggy shorts, and a backwards baseball hat singing about the squishy thing they found in their shorts. When I hear the term "melodic punk" I picture bands like Moral Crux or The Hex Dispensers. Is one better than the other? No, not n...

  The Drags Now who in their right mind would put these two mammoth bands against each other, right? I mean, you'd have to be some sort of cruel sadist of some type to do something like that. It's like telling someone they could either have water or oxygen! Besides there would be no real winner if you think about it. It'd be like Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla or Superman Vs Bizarro. We'd just be left with a planet of destruction with the only loser being us. I was lucky enough to be around when both of these bands were at their beginning, and experience them go thru primary 1st stage propulsion, then go into booster separation and achieve orbital status in the heavens above.  Teengenerate  I know everyone who knows even a tiny morsel about underground rock n roll knows about the mighty Teengenerate from Tokyo, Japan and the majestic Drags from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Even though not everyone was around then these bands were demolishing venues and leaving audiences shell sh...

I remember four things, right off the top of my head from 1996. I remember collecting Beanie Babies like a fiend with my Mom. We'd drive all around town, from store to store looking for our next beanie fix. I remember playing Mario Kart 64 like a wild eyed maniac, often times shunning food and drink just for the opportunity to play more. I remember being so excited to finally get a Marvel Vs. DC comic book. And I remember buying punk rock records, lot's and lot's of punk records.  I was lucky to have discovered underground punk music just a few years prior. I didn't know if it was because I was at such a formative age in 1996, but I always held the music that came out during that time particularity close to my heart. I think of it as such a golden era for the genera. But I can tell you one thing, out of the three things I mentioned remembering about 1996, the one thing I still do is listen to the records that came out then. I haven't played Mario Kart, read that cra...

I used to love gathering up all the music I've listened to throughout the year when I used write for Audio Ammunition and now I'm glad I have a new platform to do it once again. I enjoy reflecting on the year through these records; where I was when I first heard them, or remembering the excitement of listening to them for the first time. Often times I get surprised that some of these records have only been in my life for such a short a time. 2025 was an unbelievable year for underground rock n roll. It took me so long to gather the records I loved the most and whittle the list down to something manageable. I used to have a method of ranking records but I realized it was foolish. I used to rank records by how much I actually played them throughout the year. Sounds legitimate right? Well, then I thought about this: I love the movies 2001 A Space Odyssey and Back To The Future. I am not in the mood to watch the former as often as I am the latter. Does that mean I like Back To The...