Crushed On You - Demo 2009

Awesome band I came across at an Unbroken reunion show. Picked up their demo and ended up seeing them another time, and they were great. Haven't heard much from them recently. Probably inactive. Members of Unbroken, Kill Holiday, Julia, Cold War, and Throwdown playing pop punk that gives me a Social Distortion or maybe even Bouncing Souls vibe. I've never listened to Kill Holiday but hear it's along the lines of where they left off, but poppier. This is a really impressive demo and I hope they end up doing more stuff later on.

The track names might be wrong. Check into that... haha.



1. This Is Where The Party Starts
2. Thank God I'm From California
3. When Panic Attacks
4. Made And Waiting
5. Kissing Is An Artform

Post Marked Stamps compilation

This is an amazing compilation put out by Tree Records who originally did it as a series of 7" singles, with two bands, one song each, on each record. They later released the entire compilation with all 18 bands on one CD. The CD doesn't follow the release of the records chronologically. Post Marked Stamps has some amazing (and some not-so-amazing (see: Tim Kinsella's Promise Ring cover)) songs on it! It features my favorite Braid song, which was exclusive to PMS. It's got the original version of The Get Kids' "I'm A Loner Dottie, A Rebel" and lots of great songs from less-heard-of bands like Ethel Meserve, Aspera Ad Astra, and Compound Red.

One of the guys in The Hal Al Shedad posted this compilation with some cool back stories about it on his blog: http://beyondfailure.blogspot.com/2008/05/tree-records-post-marked-stamps-singles.html

NOTE: The Rainer Maria song might show up as "Black In The Eye." It's actually titled "Pincushion." Black In The Eye is the Aspera Ad Astra song. Also, a lot of the songs titles are only half-right. The correct titles are on that blog I linked.



1. Aspera Ad Astra - Black In The Eye
2. Cerberus Shoal - A Lighthouse In Athens Part 1
3. Braid - Forever Got Shorter
4. Ethel Meserve - Belated Blues
5. The Get Up Kids - I'm A Loner Dottie, A Rebel
6. Compound Red - Building
7. Rainer Maria - Pincushion
8. Jen Wood - Sheltering Arms (For The Birds That Are Unborn)
9. Still Life - Looks Like Tomorrow
10. The Deadwood Divine - And Where Did I Leave Off
11. Giant's Chair - Lost Dauphin
12. A Minor Forest - Inter Continental Stalker (And So Does The Wolf Whistle)
13. The Hal Al Shedad - Solitaire
14. Sweep The Leg Johnny - Walking Home On The Emergency Bed
15. Haelah - Fallen Away
16. Very Secretary - Nagarkot
17. Ida - Post Prom Disorder
18. Tim Kinsella - A Picture Postcard