Forget Me

Forget Me is a five piece screamo band from Asheville, North Carolina. The band is made up of Marcos, Sergio, Andrew, Adam, Britt. Reminds me a lot of Touché Amoré and that's never a bad thing. This album is all too short and will be done before you know it. My brain seems to be full of fuck right now so forgive the shitty description

Figure/Ground - South

Figure/Ground are a four piece from Huntingtown, MD. They play a version of emo that verges into screamo territory. The band is made up of Liam Fletcher, Matt Laher, Randy Hall and Jesse Buff. Acoustic guitars and desperate vocals that are heading towards screaming. Formed from the ashes of Lonely Vibraphone. Really good

Saddest Landscape - After The Lights

The Saddest Landscape are a four piece screamo band from Boston. The band is made up of

Aaron, Andy, Mike and Eric. They are a rather unique band, taking elements of emo and grafting them onto the more explosive, chaotic elements of screamo. The singer is awesome, his shout sounds like he's going to burst into tears at any time. It is a bit of an acquired taste but once your hooked its nothing less than awesome. 

They've put out splits with bands like Pianos Become The Teeth, We Were Skeletons, Funeral Diner, The Pine, Trophy Scars and If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?

 

 

 

Their new album is being released by Topshelf Records and is really awesome. It continues the path they were on during You Will Not Survive and is every bit as awesome. I believe there are still some copies available so you can should check em out here: http://www.topshelfrecords.bigcartel.com/artist/the-saddest-landscape

Bear McGruff

Bear McGruff are a three piece from Missoula Montana. The band is made up of Ethan, Chris, Evan who have played or been involved with Cloony, The Whoopass Girls, Cat Heaven, King Elephant, Brad's Ex Girlfriends, Henry Bemis Is A Superhero, The Sky Looks Pissed and Out Of Character. The band existed when Ethan was in Missoula. Bear McGruff remind me a lot of Ethan's current project the Whoopass Girls but with a focus more on emo than on punk rock. Which I quite enjoy. The tape is going to be pressed by Carucage records apparently which is awesome.


 
If they run out of free downloads here the mediafire link they provided

http://www.mediafire.com/?g9mbcj0dpuv13jf

Box Social - Unwound

Box Social are an internet two piece who just released their debut EP Unwound. The band consists of two people, Justice Claggett, responsible for vocals & lyrics as well as Casey VanAntwerp, responsible for everything else. They are from Jackson, MI & Nampa, ID and play a twinkly kind of emo with mostly yearning vocals though there are some awesome screams towards the end. There's nothing groundbreaking but if you enjoy twinkly emo this will be right up your alley. Justice also does vocals in Enchiridion whom I haven't heard yet but I assume are awesome.

Swollen Members - Dagger Mouth

Swollen Members are a great rap group from Victoria Canada. Mad Child and Prevail ran Battleaxe Records for damn near a decade before signing with a major label a little while ago. At the biggest the group consists of the two awesome aforementioned MC's as well as Moka Only, Rob The Viking making beats as part of the crew and guest verses from MC's like Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Buc Fifty & Evidence of Dilated Peoples.

 They had their own brand of witches and demons, dungeons & dragons style rap. There was still a lot of violence but there was a lot of more discussion of werewolves and vampires and occult magic. Kinda like Jedi Mind Tricks but not as violent and less hardcore.

Also Prevail is one of the most underrated MC's out there, not only his is flow liquid fast but to decipher his references require at least a trip to the encyclopedia if not to the used book store to find the obscure literary reference. And he will tear you apart in a battle. Speaking of battling, Mad Child's no slouch. He was inducted into the Rock Steady Crew making Swollen Members one of three rap groups associated with the crew.

They released three awesome albums that carved out their space before completely selling out and writing mainstream hip hop songs. They went from this

to this

I stopped paying attention for a little while. They made their money as mainstream stars but things didn't go so hot. Turns out Mad Child had an OxyContin addiction that cost him millions.

They've apparently made a come back though. They released Dagger Mouth last year which has it's problems but is really a return to form. There is not as much Balance to their music now as there is way more Mad Child on the album than there is Prevail. And for my money I would take Prevail over Mad Child but would take Swollen Members before either of them solo. Still there is a lot of Mad Child's murderous, anguished battle raps on this album and he has brought back the occult references and more distinct drug references than I remember before.

Don't Worry Ma I'm Only Daydreamin'

 Summer 2011 I was hardcore in the throws of writer block. Attempting to break through i wrote this song about the clouds.

Shining Lights

I showed up to  class this morning but no one else did. I stayed,wrote a little bit before I went home and wrote a guitar riff

Party Foul - Winter 2012

Party Foul area  band from Philadelphia. Formed in Winter 2012 they've put out one EP. They feature members of Mallard of the Thick, Degrassi, Mumble, So Close, Jonas & the Wishing Well, Corcovado which should give you a rough idea of where the sound is coming from   Think ock solid emo style punk pop. A less noodly Stay Ahead of the Weather, less twinkly Wavelets and you wouldn't be all that far off. Quite enjoying this.

Untitled 7"

The Untitled 7" is pretty much finished.



You can listen my songs from this way international split here
http://smawj.bandcamp.com/

cabin fire - cathedrals of information

Cabin Fire are a two piece grind/screamo band featuring Stephen on drums/vocals and Ryan on guitar/vocals from Fresno, CA. They started in October 2009. Their new album is called  Cathedrals Of Information. There are a couple of songs I like and they mostly in the beginning. I'm not really a fan of grindcore or the more experimental side of hardcore which is where the heavy lifting happens on this album so I'm left with just a skimming of stuff I actually like. But I know there are people who like noise and grindcore so this should satiate that a little bit

hit the bandcamp for free downloads