By Nick DiNatale Music Editor March’s largest success: Yellowcard’s When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes With alt-rock act Yellowcard now signed to Hopeless Records, When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes comes three years following the group’s previous release, Paper Walls. It was a shock to many of their fans when the band decided to put things on pause in order [...]

by Nick DiNatale Music Editor February’s largest success: Bayside’s Killing Time Killing Time is the next jump forward for Queens-based Bayside, following 2008’s Shudder. With a new label to back them up (Wind-up Records), Bayside returns with yet another memorable alt-rock release to accompany them.

Nick DiNatale Music editor January’s Largest Success: I Am Empire’s Kings I Am Empire’s debut is strong, fulfilling, and memorable to say the least. It’s certainly safe to say that a fair number of positive adjectives can be used to articulate the success of the band’s Tooth & Nail debut. As a result of the album’s abundant solos, catchy riffs, [...]

By Nick DiNatale Music Editor November’s largest success: My Chemical Romance’s Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys With a four year wait since the release of their previous album, The Black Parade, one of the main questions that alt-rock band My Chemical Romance faced with the release of their new album Danger Days: The True Lives of [...]

By Nick DiNatale Music Editor October’s largest success: Chiodos’ Illuminaudio. Following their decision to fire incredibly popular, highly successful, and very talented lead vocalist Craig Owens last September, it’s safe to say that any expectations for Chiodos’ new material were significantly lowered. Skeptics could not have been more wrong. Chiodos produced an album to remember; one that even holds its [...]

By Nick DiNatale Music Editor Septembers largest successes: Amely’s Hello World EP and I Am Alpha And Omega’s The Roar And The Whisper September brought two very memorable releases, both coming from very young bands that have a great deal ahead of themselves. With contrasting styles, Amely and I Am Alpha And Omega both brought convincing recordings from their respective [...]

By: Nicholas DiNatale Staff Writer Post-hardcore band The Word Alive was originally started as a new project by Craig Mabbit, after he left blessthefall. However, after he created Escape The Fate as a side project, the members of The Word Alive decided that he wasn’t paying equal attention to both bands and decided to replace him. The result was Tyler [...]

By Nick DiNatale Staff Writer Seeing that we’ve been rather busy for the last few months, I’ve sort of lost track of what’s been coming out for new music. However, I still managed to develop a strong liking for Call The Cops, a young band from Long Beach, California with a heavily pop-influenced sound. Their debut album, which is self [...]

By Nicholas DiNatale Staff Writer June’s largest success: VersaEmerge’s Fixed At Zero Looking back at June’s releases, there were a number of very solid records produced. From Hawthorne Heights’ fourth full-length, Skeletons to Pierce The Veil’s sophomore album, Selfish Machines, the month did not disappoint. However, one of the most fulfilling records of the month was the debut full-length of [...]

By: Nicholas DiNatale Staff writer Last month’s largest success: Circa Survive’s Blue Sky Noise Without a doubt, Blue Sky Noise deserves the most attention amongst April’s releases. The long awaited follow up to 2007’s On Letting Go was finally released on April 20th. It can easily be said that the wait was well justified by the product. The twelve track [...]