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BARRAKUDA MCMURDER "Slow Crawl" from It's Alive
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This is Grath Madden of The Steinways first band and first release since the unfortunate end of The Steinways (www.myspace.com/thesteinways). If you were a fan of his past material you're sure to love this new EP. The melodies and harmonies are back in full force as well as the shitty attitude. The songs are still about a crappy life, love and all that junk, but they read a little more personal than his past efforts. A great first release from a new band showing lots of promise. Note: Grath's next incarnation of this band is called House Boat (www.myspace.com/houseboattakesnoprisoners) and they will have a debut album out this Fall on It's Alive Records.
     
 
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COPYRIGHTS / DOPAMINES "Songs About Fucking Up" from It's Alive
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Two of the very best bands the underground has to offer in the way of melodic-pop-punk-rock. At some point the new-school becomes the old-school, or at least the not-so-new-school. The Copyrights were the new kids on the block seven years ago when they got started, but today have become a band that is inspiring newer, younger acts. The Dopamines are undeniably one of these bands. This EP showcases both bands at their very best doing what they do best - singing about fucking up!

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GATEWAY DISTRICT "Some Days You Get the Thunder" from It's Alive
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The Gateway District is one of the latest and definitely greatest bands to come out of the Minneapolis, MN scene. Members include Maren (of the Soviettes and Salteens), Carrie (of American Monsters and Salteens), Brad (of Dear Landlord and Rivethead) and Nate (of Banner Pilot, OWTH and Rivethead). Call it a super-group, a side project or whatever you want. All three songwriters bring a style of their own to this album, making for a great mix of character and approach from song to song. The artwork is fantastic, with a 16-page full color booklet. Each band member contributed art for each of their songs, so again, three styles come together to make for an awesome whole. Some days you get the thunder... This is gonna be one of those days!
     
 
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HOUSE BOAT "The Delaware Octopus" from It's Alive
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What do you get when you take Grath and Azeem from The Steinways and put them in a band with Zack Off With Their Dear Landlord Heads and Mikey Erg [SA]? House Boat, that's what you get! More specifically, The Delaware Octopus. And what's The Delaware Octopus? Shit if I know! But I can tell you it's catchy, it's clever, it's cynical and it's one of the best pop punk albums you're ever going to hear! Short, sweet and the point... whatever that point may be!
     
 
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LEGENDARY SAN DIEGO CHARGERS / SUNNYSIDE "Give 'em Enough Booze" from It's Alive
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Earlier this year San Diego's Sunnyside did a west coast tour with Minnesota's Pretty Boy Thorson & The Fallin' Angels. Pretty Boy were touring as a three piece instead of their usual five. On top of that, Brad Landlord was filling in on drums. Apparently they didn't know how to play too many PBT songs, and The Legendary San Diego Chargers were born out of the mess! If you took the country out of PBT, the punk rock core you'd be left with is exactly what TLSDC sound like - hard driving, singalong songs with a bunch of gravel in the guts. Sunnyside are everything that was and is great about the San Diego punk sound of the glory days when pop punk was big shit down there. They know how to put together a catchy tune without any of the unnecessary glitzy garbage. The vocals are unpolished and harsh at best - a perfect match for the crunchy pop punk music it fronts. This is the first of near forty releases we've put out to date with a southern California band. We were waiting for something gnarly and got just that.
     
 
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MANGES "Rocket to Hollywood" from It's Alive
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The Manges bring a ton of energy and excellent musicianship with them every time they take a stage. Much like their heroes the Ramones they make every live show count. This live album plays more like a greatest hits or best of album - all hits without any misses. There are a couple of Ramones covers thrown in for good measure, of course. Rocket To Hollywood was recorded during the summer of 2007 at Safari Sams in Hollywood, CA while on their third tour of the states, this time with The Queers and The Methadones. It was a great show start to finish and this recording captured the fun-loving spirit of the night perfectly. A split release with Cheapskate Records (Conecticut, USA), Squinty Joe Records (UK) and Peabrain Records (Denmark).
     
 
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METHADONES "Gary Glitter" from It's Alive
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"Gary Glitter" - the first 7" release by The Methadones - picks up right where their "21st Century Power Pop Riot" album left off with an ode to the king of glam himself. On the opening track "Gary Glitter", The Methadones proudly display their love for the man's music with the song's stomping beat, slick riffs and gang vocal choruses, but in lyric show a distaste for the man himself by asking plain and simple, "What the fuck is wrong with Gary Glitter?" The flipside of the ep features the straight up pop punk gem "Over The Moon." Few people can write a song as catchy and perfect in its simplicity as front man Dan Schafer. This EP showcases The Methadones ability to not only write and record different styles of music, but to excel at it!
     
 
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METHADONES / COPYRIGHTS "Split" from It's Alive
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Six songs each from two of today's greatest bands together on one record. That makes for a dozen reasons why this is one of the best splits ever! The Methadones and The Copyrights do Illinois proud on this collaboration - it's north meets south with awesome results.
     
  BE MY DOPPELGANGER "Sonic Annihilation" from It's Alive
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  CHILDREN'S CRUSADE "Get Awesome" from It's Alive
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  CHINESE TELEPHONES "Chinese Telephones" from It's Alive
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  CHINESE TELEPHONES / DEAR LANDLORD from Recess Records/It's Alive
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"I had to scroll down this lackluster, at best, Dreamweaver file to find out when the last time i did a split 7". Lets just agree that its been awhile. I dunno why cos its a format that got me thru years of shitty throwaway B sides and turned me onto some pretty great bands. Ah ok enough "those were the days" crap! Dear Landlord is Zack & Half Pint from Rivethead and Fletcher & Brett from The Copyrights. Obviously if you liked any one of those bands you will love their side of this! Zach has not skipped a beat with his great songs. For those of you who wished Rivethead never broke up can stop throwing their stupid pennys in the well now. Chinese Telephones are consistently recording some great stuff! I think they are a hybrid of D4 and The Marked Men. If you heard their great side off The Potential Johns split 12" then your already hooked. go for it! Split release with the lovely It's Alive Records." - Todd/Recess
     
  COPYRIGHTS "Button Smasher" from It's Alive
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  COPYRIGHTS "Make Sound" from It's Alive/Red Scare
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  COPYRIGHTS "Mutiny Pop" from It's Alive
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  COPYRIGHTS "We Didn't Come Here to Die PICTURE DISC" from It's Alive
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  CRUMBS / RIDICULES from It's Alive
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The Crumbs have been making noise down in Miami for 15 years now. Their unmistakable 1950's classic rock n roll meets 1970's pre-punk style has been evolving ever since. Their two tracks on this record stand up to the best the band's ever done before. A few members have come and gone over the years - on this record they are joined by Joe Koontz of Against All Authority. Making their first vinyl appearance, fellow Miami residents, The Ridicules bring two tracks of a newer take on the pop punk rock n roll style to the flipside of this split. Their songs combine elements of the catchy up beat traditional pop punk sound with a healthy dose of grit and guts, not unlike a lot of the better music currently evolving up and out of the pop punk underground.
     
  DOPAMINES "The Dopamines" from It's Alive
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  DOPAMINES / TILL PLAINS from It's Alive
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  FEAR OF LIPSTICK "Indie Band" from It's Alive
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  FESTIPALS "Gold Magic" from It's Alive
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Festipals are four friends who get together to write and record great music to play at various festival type shows throughout the year. They are all currently and formerly in other bands including Charlie Brown Gets A Valentine, Dead Mechanical, Sick Sick Birds, Nancy and The AV Club. Each member brings something special to the band that can be found in the tunes of all their other bands, but when combined with one another as Festipals it makes for something all together different and its own special kind of awesome. A super group by any other name is still a super group, so call it what you will. Up until this record they only had a few self-released cd-r's which were all given away and traded for beers at shows. Catch 'em live and I bet you this 7" will cost you no more than a cup of whatever's on tap.
     
  FOR SCIENCE "Way Out of Control" from Don Giovanni/It's Alive
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Follow up EP to "Revenge For Hire", featuring Mike Yannich (The Ergs) on Bass and Chris "Gobo" Pierce (Sinkhole) on Drums. 8 songs, including "Salutations" and "Swan Song."
     
  GET BENT "Dead It" from It's Alive
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Get Bent seem to draw their sound from a wide, varied pool of influences. So much so that it's hard to very clearly identify and pick out any of them, much less all of them. They certainly haven't reinvented the wheel, but maybe they've just crafted a sound so much their own that they are their own biggest influence. The three tracks that make up Dead It are the last Get Bent ever recorded. There's a pretty big and constantly growing scene in and around New York City, with a ton of bands making great music. Andy, Jared, Mike and Gerge have probably played in half of them. Get Bent will be missed. **members of Potboiler, Down In The Dumps, Jonesin', Red & Blue, State Lottery, Thousandries
     
  MUGWUMPS "Do Time" from It's Alive
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  RETARDED "Gambling on Rock" from It's Alive
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  STEINWAYS "Unoriginal Recipe" from It's Alive
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  VARSITY WEIRDOS / HIGH SCHOOL TEEN PARTY from It's Alive
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  VETERANS "The Veterans" from It's Alive
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