Mind Equals Blown

Somewhere between the new wave of emo, the slight grit of Where You Want to Be and the occasional injection of rock-styled energetic songwriting – that is where you’ll find Have Mercy’s debut LP, the aptly titled The Earth Pushed Back. Aptly if only because it seems like a sort of answer to finding some…

After turning some heads with their debut LP Our Home Is a Deathbed, Louisville hardcore act Xerxes did what most bands do – they toured their asses off. However, after seemingly taking some time away from things, the band has come back with a new release, a two-track EP called Would You Understand? A new…

It’s all come to this. After fighting their own battles with depression, anxiety and frustration with the world around them, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s own pop-punk sextet The Wonder Years has not only won the battle… they’ve won the war as well. Their victory speech comes in the form of their fourth studio album The Greatest Generation. Through thirteen…

Written By Guest Writer Justin Graci The Wonder Years set themselves apart from all of their peers with their incredible record The Upsides. They showed hope and promise to a pop-punk scene that was on its way back to revival and then slowly became the top dogs in the genre, holding a weight on their…

I’m not sad anymore. They were the opening words to a song, no, an album that would propel the somewhat buzzing realist pop-punks from maybes to somebodies. The Wonder Years had made something of a dent in the pop-punk scene with the fickle but carefree Get Stoked On It!, but this was a different record…

It would be a massive understatement to say that Philly pop-punk flagbearers The Wonder Years have come a long way since their debut LP. Get Stoked On It! had all the makings of a scene cliched in humming synths, heart-on-sleeve lyricism and a heaping handful of pop culture references from the song titles to the…

The question is as old as time itself, and has been asked from generation to generation: What makes two polar opposites attract so well? The question is pondered once again on a split 7” featuring Long Island, New York’s Sainthood Reps and San Diego, California’s Weatherbox. While from different labels (the former on No Sleep,…

The entire day (4/25/13) before the The Dillinger Escape Plan show at the Altar Bar in Pittsburgh, my heart was racing. I’d seen them a few times before, but never at the beginning of an album cycle, and never with so much anticipation. Needless to say, I got right up in the front, ready to…