
This weekend (May 20-21), the first annual TREASURE FEST will take place in Charlotte, NC showcasing over 60 independent bands from all over the East Coast. A weekend pass for Friday and Saturday is now available for just $25. Grab your tickets here and support a strictly DIY festival, free from corporate sponsorship and where all profit goes directly to the amazing bands involved. Treasure Fest will feature a ton of amazing up-and-coming and established indie / punk artists from different DIY backgrounds, including Algernon Cadwallader, Daytrader, Restorations, Snowing, 1994!, Everyone Everywhere, [...]
Who is The Tim Version and what does their record Decline Of The Southern Gentleman have to do with anything? Well, it's just like me to "officially" review an album after including it on my best of 2008 list (at #47), so here is that too little too late review. Let's just start by saying that Decline Of The Southern Gentleman was released by No Idea Records earlier this year and (yeah) it would make awesome drinking music. Just imagine that magical Gainesville punk rock [...]

Everyone else is doing it so why shouldn't I? That's right, listmania 2008 is finally here and what I've got to present to you here is the first half of my favorite albums of the year. Love 'em or hate 'em, these are the albums that made the cut. I decided to stick with a list of 50 this year mainly because that's what I've done in the past and also because 2008 was a really great year for new music and narrowing down the list to fewer than this just seemed unfair. [...]