Caseracer - Caseracer EP (2012)

Fascinating debut EP by this hardcore punk act coming from Delaware and New Jersey. Maybe this last one explains why they have a fresh and marked Lifetime influence. Hectic and intense hardcore punk with a gruff voice and a lot of resemblance with Kid Dynamite, Death Is Not Glamorous or Deny Everything. Loving this so much.

01. Trickle Down
02. I'm Uh Fixing A Divot
03. The Blind Are Courageous
04. Hunter Mountain
05. I Used To Watch Fantasia A Lot
06. Two Yutes

Slight Similarities With: Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, Death Is Not Glamorous.

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Harker - Loyal Than Most / Lights Off (2011)

I found this thanks to my tumblr page. It is the solo project for Vocalist/Guitarist from UK Punk Rock band Three Summers Strong. Great voice for this kind of genre, with a lot of influence of Chuck Ragan and Frank Turner in the instrumentation and vocals reminding of post-hardcore/emo bands like Jawbreaker (great cover) or The Get Up Kids.

01 – Loyal Than Most
02 – Lights Off
03 – Do You Still Hate Me? (Jawbreaker cover)

Slight Similarities With: Chuck Ragan, Frank Turner, Jawbreaker

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Ceremony - Zoo (2012)

Ceremony did it again. It all started brewing with Rohnert Park. Not as hardcore as their previous work and with a lot of new ideas and things to try made that album a great effort to start changing the band's sound without erasing the band's roots and keeping it hardcore punk. So Zoo is some kind of natural follow-up to that change. This time, Ceremony sounds even further from their previous work but nobody can say that they have stepped aside from hardcore punk. There's a lot of influences in this record, and it rides through punk, garage, indie and surf landscapes naturally. It works for me, let's hope it does for you.

01. Hysteria
02. Citizen
03. Repeating the Circle
04. World Blue
05. Quarantine
06. Brace Yourself
07. Adult
08. Hotel
09. Ordinary People
10. Nosebleed
11. Community Service
12. Video

Slight Similarities With: Hard to say... some garage punk, some indie rock, maybe you'll love it if you liked Fucked Up's sound progression.

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Raw Inside - Extinct Fire (2012)

I've known this band for something like eight years, it was possibly one of the first spanish punk-rock bands that I really got into, chatting with one of its members online. I got their first demos and releases via Soulseek and bought their first album entitled "Different". Throughout their career they have always kept a personal and unique vibe and a pronounced 90's punk rock sound, coming directly from their deepest influences: The Offspring, Green Day, Rancid and all the punk that was big at that time. 'Extinc Fire' is still the kind of punk rock that they used to play but with some added touches here and there (Soul Of Moon, the closing track, sounds like a heavy ballad attempt made by punk rockers). Definately something that every Smash, Insomniac and Let's Go lover should give a try.

01. After Burning
02. Get Yourself
03. Few Boys
04. Alright, I'll say goodbye
05. Blood on the floor
06. One life
07. Six years old
08. Camouflage
09. Extinct Fire
10. Why?
11. Yes, she got it
12. School of liars
13. Old story
14. Soul of moon

Slight Similarities With: The Offspring, Green Day, Rancid

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Classics Of Love - Self Titled (2012)

Almost ten years have gone since Common Rider broke up in 2003. Since then, we have only seen Jesse Michaels performing solo until he came with the great news of returning to the band format with these Classics Of Love. Some will say that Jesse has been doing the same thing over and over; they couldn't be more wrong. Operation Ivy and Common Rider were unique mixtures of ska and punk, the latter one putting the accent on ska and reggae. Classics Of Love are attached to ska too, but they sound a little bit harder than the first two, this record's got some hardcore hooks and sounds like Jesse is full of energy to keep making great music. We are lucky bastards.

01.What A Shame
02.Castle In The Sky
03.World of the Known
04.Gun Show
05.Stronghold
06.Moving Pictures
07.It Will Not Be Moved
08.Bandstand
09.Would-Be Kings
10.Last Strike
11.Light Rail
12.Dissolve
13.We Need A Change

Slight Similarities With: Operation Ivy, Common Rider, AAA.

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Summer Vacation - Condition (2011)

Don't let this horrible album cover fool you, this is great stuff. Something flowing smoothly between genres like punk, indie, pop, emo and post-hardcore but always keeping it genuine and bouncy. Southern California must be proud of these guys.

01. I Know What You Want 01:08
02. Tiffany Sucks 01:45
03. Post-You 03:10
04. Team Captain 02:15
05. Wormhole Blueprint 02:12
06. Last Summer 01:45
07. Blue Dream 03:40
08. The Flower That Drank The Moon 01:55
09. Dementia 01:14
10. Not That 02:04
11. Vice City 01:47
12. Apparatus 01:49
13. Cancer 05:39
14. Bonus Track 0:48

Slight Similarities With: Joyce Manor, Big Kids, Grown Ups

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Intenta Detenerme - Fastcore Fiesta! (2011)

These guys from Santiago de Chile play really fast old school hardcore with lyrics in spanish. Great riffs, some solos and lots of speed, you really don't need much more to enjoy these south-americans playing like their hands are on fire. Forget moshcore and machocore shit, this is the real hardcore!!

01- De tu clase
02- No estoy contra
03- Muerete rapido
04- Mala memoria
05- Esta canción no la entiendo
06- Cesantía juvenil
07- Intenta Detenerme
08- Tanto pudor
09- Consuma conciencia
10- Homo es igual
11- New wind (live)

Slight Similarities With: SS Decontrol, DYS, 7 seconds

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Fucked Up - Year Of The Tiger (2012)

After the success of David Comes To Life in almost every Top of the year, canadian punk rock conjurers have released their usual recording for this year, for the ones who don't know about it, Fucked Up has released a 12" every year entitled by each Chinese Year. This one is way better than Year Of The Ox, in my humble opinion, so you should check this out.

01- Year Of The Tiger
02- ONNO

Slight Similarities With: Very difficult to say, some hints of hardcore... lastly some indie rock... just give it a listen.

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