Band: Safari So Good
Album: Every Fight is a Food Fight When You’re A Cannibal
Genre: Pop Punk
Label: Takeover
Tracks:
1. A Pirate’s Life For Me
2. The Right To Arm Bears
3. Dogs with Bees in Their Mouths Who When They Bark They Shoot Bees at You
4. You Got it Dude
5. Perfect
In the midst of the rise of Myspace, it [...]

Band: Thee Armada
Album: Rock, Shock & Load
Genre: Pop Punk/Rock
Label: Foundation Recordings
Tracks:
1. Rock, Shock & Load
2. Along The Way
It’s become apparent to me that every region of the USA has a hotbed for musical talent. In the East, we have New Jersey and their ever-influential pop punk sound or gruff working man anthems while the West [...]

Band: Hannah’s Field
Album: Warriors of Lover
Genre: Rock?
Label: Rastafairy
Tracks:
1. Angel Land
2. Puff Puff Give
3. Darius
4. Rosie Rise
5. Zen Mind
6. Weed and Meditation
7. I Belong
8. Warriors of Love
9. Boss Man
10. Work Song
11. Remember My Life
12. Lost Children
13. Praise
Hanna’s Field is a modern-hippie-rasta-folk group lead by the psychedelic woman, Hannah. The group’s sound combines modern and classic folk [...]

Band: Native
Album: We Delete; Erase
Genre: Indie/Rock
Tracks:
1. Alpacastan
2. Flashdance
3. What Are You Dylan In My House
4. Ride The Tide
5. Something About Swordsmanship
6. Hey Mon, Hook Me Up ‘Do
I think anyone would be hard pressed to find a better music scene than that of the midwest. We’ve already covered La Dispute, but now we here at UTG [...]

Band: The Myriad
Album: With Arrows, With Poise
Genre: Indie/Rock
Label: Koch
Tracks:
1. You Waste Time Like A Grandfather Clock
2. Get On The Plane
3. Forget What You Came For
4. A Clean Shot
5. The Accident
6. The Holiest of Thieves
7. A Thousand Winters Melting
8. Polar Bears and Shark Fins
9. Throwing Punches
10. Don’t Let Them See You
11. Braver Than The Rest
12. Stuck [...]

Band: Ian Walsh
Album: Please Remember
Genre: Indie/Folk
Label: Plus 5
Tracks:
1. Unhappy Ending
2. Catch My Eye
3. Now Or Never
4. Perfect Sense
5. As Always
6. Goodbye
7. Supposed To Be
8. I Hope I’m Blind
9. Familiar Place
10. Apology
When I first began writing this review for Ian Walsh’s new album, “Please Remember,” I was skeptical. I began looking up a little bit of [...]

Band: Moneen
Title: It All Started With A Red Stripe
Genre: Documentary
Release: 05/13
Distributor: Vagrant
I finally dragged myself away from Mario Kart long enough to review the .moneen. dvd “it all started with a red stripe” and I really wish I’d gotten to it sooner. The dvd consists of 4 parts: A mini-documentary, a live concert, some music [...]

Band: Reggie and The Full Effect
Album: Last Stop: Crappy Town
Genre: Punk/Rock
Label: Vagrant
Tracks:
1. G
2. Smith & 9th
3. F
4. E
5. 3rd Ave.
6. L
7. J
8. V
9. Lorimer St.
10. R
11. 36th St.
12. N
Three whole years and ten million rumors later, Reggie and The Full Effect have a new album. After the band’s last effort, Songs Not To Get Married [...]

Today, [UTG] James spoke briefly with Buddy from Less Than Jake regarding their new album, new label, upcoming tour, and their evolution as a band. Below you can find the interview that transpired and don’t forget to buy their new album GNV FLA when it hits stores next week [see the nifty banner on [...]

Band: The Aviation Orange/Eric Scholz
Album: Untitled [Split]
Genre: Indie/Folk
Label: Feels Like Home Records
Tracks:
The Aviation Orange
1. CCSS
2. Hips and Maladies
3. Malloriegh
4. Seattle Slide
5. Fade Away
Eric Scholz
6. White Fence
7. Lonesome Dan
8. Sure Thing
9. Every Shade of Blue
10. In Your Hands
11. Saturday Sun
With the economy in shambles and even major labels scrambling to figure out how to profit in [...]