Will return with new reviews next week (2/01).  Sorry for the lack of updates this week.

3345 Music (2015) Last year I was sent the first By Default By Design 7".  I didn't like it and gave it quite the shellack...

Ghost Ramp (2016) For starters, I ordered this months and months ago.  I'm the sort of person who does enough pre-orders that I...

Five-Five Hole (2015) It's always interesting opening up a package of records that I didn't specifically order.  When someo...

Matador (2015) Even though I wanted this record from the moment it was announced, from the get go I've been trying to contain a...

Self Released (2015) I'll be honest, right about now I'm getting sick of reviewing tapes.  Even though the last few (includ...

Exit Stencil (2015) This split was another tape that was released as part of Cassette Store Day.  Luckily I didn't have to figu...

Mirror Universe (2015) While I was initially bummed that this new Chomp release was only coming out on cassette, I was really excit...

Polyvinyl (2015) I'm going to try to keep knocking out some of these cassettes I have lying around.  Throughout the pages of th...

  More Power Tapes (2015) This is the last of the More Power Tapes releases that were sent to me and I saved the best for last.  I'...

  More Power Tapes (2015) Here we go, three more Cassettes form More Power Tapes: Facility Men - S/T - This is another one where ...

  More Power Tapes (2015) I'm going to keep trying to get through this cassette backlog I've got brewing, so here's three...

More Power Tapes (2015) I've said before that I don't get a lot of records sent to me to review. The vast majority of what I wr...

  Many times throughout the year I had commented on how 2015 seemed like a year that had a lot of really good records, but seemed to be l...

Rad Girlfriend / It's Alive (2015) It's very difficult to tell from this picture, but the vinyl color is actually a very da...

Sex Sheet / Rad Girlfriend / Bigger Boat / Catnap / Night Animal (2015) I ended up getting a few albums kind of late in the year an...

Greater Than Collective (2015) The fine folks from the band The Knew sent me their LP recently as I had written some nice things ab...

La-Ti-Da (2015) The man behind this Just Jeffrey album is Jeffrey McCloy, familiar to me (and maybe to you) from his work in Tranzm...

Southpaw (2015) Sorry for the unannounced break at the end of last week.  Real life occupied my mornings for a bit, but things are ...

Tender Buttons (2012) This record is a few years old, but it just ended up on my radar recently courtesy of a tweet from the fabulo...

Snappy Little Numbers (2015) Somewhere along the line the word pop-punk turned into a criticism as opposed to a description.  These...

Seismic Wave (2015) I virtually always mention when I am about to write about a record that someone sent me to review to help disti...

Goner (2015) Discovering The Blind Shake is one of the smarter things I've done over the past few years (thanks again @swamipat...

Alien Snatch (2015) Very few things will get me to buy a record quicker than saying one of the guys from The Marked Men is in the b...

Self Released (2014) I stumbled across The First Part through fellow Texas band Gentleman Rogues.  As it turns out, both have membe...

Polyvinyl (2015) The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us is the first full length from Beach Slang, following up on two pr...

Snuffy Smiles (2015) I had already discussed the music on π Japanese back when I reviewed the CD version of this album a couple of ...

Mom + Pop (2015) V is the newest album from Wavves, though it's only the III one of theirs that I've picked up.  I've b...

Sex Sheet (2015) A few weeks ago I had reviewed another Sex Sheet record by a band called Hungry Tiger.  At the time I called it po...

Southpaw (2015) This will conclude my three day run of Matthew Melton related 7"s released on Southpaw records.  I have saved ...

Southpaw (2015) As I had mentioned yesterday, I was a little disappointed with the newest Warm Soda 7".  After knocking it out...

Southpaw (2015) I think I'm going to knock out the 3 new Matthew Melton related 7"s that I recently picked up from Southpa...

Brassneck (2015) I'm not going to write about the music again, you can read yesterday's review of this same 7" for that....

Brassneck (2015) I've been a huge fan of the Snuffy Smile(s) record label for decades at this point.  They've released reco...

ARRA Music (2015) Let's stick with another 90s band this week, and one of my absolute favorites, Archers Of Loaf.  Curse Of The...

Dischord /DeSoto (2015, Reissue) Since I was already in the reissue state of mind with yesterday's Built To Spill LP, I figured...