Rise from the grave pretty trio.
As anyone knows me I love music. Hence it should be no surprise that I’ve
gotten even more recently.
- Rise Against - Siren Song of the
Counter Culture. Okay, Rise Against put out an album last year,
Revolutions Per Minute. Honestly, it was my
2003. I still listen to it all the time because it’s just that good. Their
new album, Siren Song of the Counter Culture is also a fantastic album,
but I tell you, it’s hard to beat Revolutions. While spinning this
album for a while I realize it would be a prenominal album if Revolutions
had never come out, but it did and now we have more good stuff to
listen to. - Pretty Girls Make
Graves - Good Health and The New Romance. This band
is just supper solid. Sort of along the lines of Le Tigre and
Sleater-Kinney in that they all have female singers and play similar styles
of music, PGMG is a super solid and plays well for me in the background
while I’m working. Everyone I’ve played them for has loved the sound
immediately. - Alkaline Trio - From Here to
Infirmary and Good Mourning. I really used to love Alkaline Trio,
then right before Infirmary came out something turned off for me so I
skipped getting their last two albums. This year I got the
Alkaline Trio/One Man Army Split. I immediately fell in love with the
work of both bands on the split. That caused me to re-thing not having all of
the Alk3 albums. I’m glad I decided to pick them up (besides being a
completist) because Infirmary is good but Mourning is great.
It’s right up there with the work on the split and has been very easy for
me to listen to. The video for “We’ve Had Enough” is also really good (see
the mention about the Rock Against Bush album below - Less Than Jake - B is for
B-sides. LTJ took 12 songs from the
sessions and put out a whole new album. It’s short but very good. It is LTJ,
what more could one expect. I’m just blown away that they had enough
material to release another album from just the recording of one. - Various Artists - Rock Against Bush
Vol. 2. Another in the series. While all the music is great and
a nice cheap buy the winning aspect of this disc is that it comes with a
bonus DVD. On the DVD is a performance of Will Ferrell as George Bush and
several music videos by bands like Alk3, Flogging Molly, and Bad Religion.
All in all yet another great comp from Fat Wreck.
