road trippin.....

First of all, you better believe Kickapoo Joy Juice will get 26 fourteen year old girls jacked up for a Volleyball Match quicker then cocaine or speed ever could. Secondly here's some albums that were getting some heavy rotation on my ipod while i tried to drown out the sound of people singing Taylor Swift loud enough to rattle the bus windows. :)

My Heart to Joy [2009] Season in Verse : Been talking to these guys lately about how they need to come to AK to do a show. Can't wait to move back to states to see this band again. This record is always great, on a bus, on a plane, with ham, etc
Kidcrash [2004] New Ruins : For some reason anytime i hear any of these songs, they make me smile. Love this band, definitely still my favorite record by them, wish they would buy back the rights and put it on vinyl.
Polemarch [2008] La Fiesta De Disfances : Continuing to be blown away by this band, probably gonna put up a Static Future[EP] pretty soon here.
Minus the Bear [2009] Into the Mirror [SINGLE]  : Kind of sick of waiting for these guys to just fucking put out there new album. And i keep saying, "fuck MTB if they want to ignore me and my wants, then FINE." But then i quickly take it back and hope the MTB gods didn't here me and smite me with a longer wait.
Alexisonfire [2009] Old Crows/Young Cardinals: It's always great when bands you love mature and make even better music. It's even better when you agree and support the direction that they want to take their new sound in. It's fucking fantastic, when that new sound is fucking awesome. 
Saosin [2003] Translating the Name :Rumors about this getting repressed on Vinyl have really been getting me all hot and bothered. Had to go back and re listen to those fan-fucking-tastic drums again.
Minus the Bear [2005] Menos El Oso :There is no instance in which this record is not 100% worth listening to from start to finish. Had to play this one while zoning out to mile after mile of snow covered mountain tops, and Dr. Seuss looking trees.. Made me miss the ocean, like it was a long lost friend [which most MTB records do].

What do you guys listen to on roadtrips?

Gumptube: AOF Born & Raised (official video)

Alexisonfire once again proves why they are the onlybandever.com. This band has no shortage of creative music videos and this video is no exception. Lets be serious what's more visually entertaining then giant colorful Chinese Dragons?

If you don't know who this band is then check this blog and start downloading, i fucking love this band they are fantastic. And if you would like to read the least masturbatory description of how this band came to be then read this by George Pettit. Cheers.

Dead Poetic - (2002) Four Wall Blackmail

sound: Post Hardcore/Screamo
length: 10 songs, 38.6 minutes
myspace
01 Burgundy
02 The Corporate Enthusiast
03 A Green Desire
04 Four Wall Blackmail
05 August Winterman
06 Ollie Otson
07 Bliss Tearing Eyes
08 Stereochild
09 Arlington Eyes
10 Tell Myself Goodbye

I actually cannot believe this isn't already on here. Instant Classic. If you've already listened to Vices or New Medicines then check your expectations at the door. This is without doubt the best Dead Poetic record to date. Still loud, still explosive, but not the ear splitting melodies of Glass in the Trees. This album is gorgeous and heartfelt, beautiful universal lyrics and heavy screams over just fucking Solid drums from Burgandy to Tell Myself Goodbye. Honestly if August Winterman weren't such a wrist splitter it would still be in constant rotation on my ipod, and StereoChild is still fucking righteous. Re-educate.

sounds like: A Static Lullaby, Alexisonfire, The Receiving End of Sirens

Krunch.

Alexisonfire - (2009) Old Crows/ Young Cardinals

sound: Post Hardcore/Screamo
length: 11 songs, 42.24 minutes
myspace
1. "Old Crows" 4:19
2. "Young Cardinals" 3:39
3. "Sons of Privilege" 3:23
4. "Born and Raised" 4:03
5. "No Rest" 3:39
6. "The Northern" 4:30
7. "Midnight Regulations" 4:13
8. "Emerald Street" 3:17
9. "Heading for the Sun" 3:47
10. "Accept Crime" 3:16
11. "Burial" 4:18
*12. "Wayfarer Youth" 3:41
Let me begin with, Alexisonfire is still, to me, theonlybandever.com . However, if you fans of AOF haven't made peace with Crisis odds are your not going to give this record a chance. And if you are that guy, then fuck you my friend because this record is pretty damn good. So far the biggest problem people have with this album is that George "sounds different". News flash, it's been 9 fucking years since the self titled press. This record is not the poetic guitars of that record, but what it lacks in musicality it makes up for with rough edges and pure rockability.
Honestly in this record especially, AOF learned how best to utilize both George's scratchy vocals and Dallas's lovely tones to create one gorgeous harmony instead of two dueling vocalist as in the past. Gems include Born and Raised and Heading for the Sun. Also The Northern is fucking TOUGH kids. Dallas gets me every fucking time with that deceptively gorgeous shit, and Ratbeard is still one of the baddest drummers of all time and space.

sounds like: Moneen, A Static Lullaby

Listen. and then please, please Purchase.

A Static Lullaby - (2006) A Static Lullaby

sound: Post Hardcore/Screamo
length: 12 songs, 46.38 minutes
myspace
1. "Hang 'Em High" – 3:59
2. "Contagious" – 4:09
3. "Annexation of Puerto Rico" – 3:46
4. "The Art of Sharing Lovers" – 3:35
5. "The Collision" – 4:01
6. "Trigger Happy Tarantula" – 4:07
7. "Eager Cannibals" – 2:55
8. "Life in a Museum" – 3:56
9. "Stare at the Air" – 2:57
10. "Static Slumber Party" – 3:47
11. "Mechanical Heart" – 5:50
12. "Let Go" (bonus track) – 3:18

I fucking love this band. But i think alot of the reason i listen to them is because i want to sex their drummer, soo hard. He has admirably large... talent. Srsly though, good album, opening to Life In a Museum is epic. Mechanical Heart best song on the album hands down.

sounds like: Alexisonfire, Dead Poetic, Silverstein

Whoosh!

Alexisonfire - (2002) Alexisonfire

sound: Post Hardcore/Screamo
length: 11 songs, 42.34 minutes
myspace
1. 44. Caliber Love Letter
2. Counterparts And Number Them
3. Adelleda
4. Daggers Through The Heart Of St. Angeles
5. Polaroids Of Polarbears
6. Water Wings
7. Where No One Knows Your Name
8. The Kennedy Curse
9. Jubella
10. Little Girls Pointing And Laughing
11. Pulmonary Archery

I figured i would post this for nostalgia if nothing else. It's one of the few records i fucking loved when i was in high school, that i still fucking love now. The guitars are like a glorious symphony, over or under Wade's obnoxious screams and Dallas' sad wails. I love this record with green eggs, under tree, all that shit. Besides Little Girls Pointing and Laughing might be the greatest song of all time.

sounds like: A Static Lullaby, Moneen, The Coterie, Dead Poetic, Circa Survive

Voip!

A Static Lullaby - (2008) Rattlesnake!

Sound: Post Hardcore/Screamo
Length: 11 songs, 41.1 minutes
myspace
1. "Rattlesnake!" – 3:34
2. "Bear Trap" – 3:46
3. "The Turn" – 3:23
4. "Scavenger" – 4:44
5. "The Prestige" – 4:06
6. "Aller au Diable" – 4:10
7. "Mourning Would Come" – 3:28
8. "The Pledge" – 3:20
9. "Under Water Knife Fight" – 3:14
10. "Everybody's Got a Lil' Fonz N' Em" – 4:08

Loud, demanding. Much more in the vein of their third album ASL. If you enjoyed that one, maybe you'll like this one. Listen to the Turn, if you don't find the drums rolling around in your head for a week, put down the record.

sounds like: Alexisonfire, The Coterie, Moneen, Dead Poetic

Yar!