The Carp: "We Just Dialed in Different Components From Our Other Projects and Made Something New Out of It"

The Submissives: "Always Play the Long Game and Choose Honest Artistic Expression Over Fame and Money. Getting Reviewed and Talked About Is Fleeting and Meaningless"

The Smashing Times: "This Record Was Made To Fulfill My Artistic Vision and Unsurprisingly, Since the Intent Was Honest, It's the Best Record I've Made"

Mordecai: "Part of Our Sound Is That We Play Very 'Loose' So We Don't Need Too Much Rehearsal"

Straight Arrows: "It's Better To Keep Moving Forward Than Try To Breathe Life Into Some Corpses of the Past"

UV-TV: "We Wanted To Challenge Ourselves, Break Free Creatively and Reignite That Lost Spark, Which Led to More Experimental Recording Sessions and Picking up Instruments Outside of Our Usual Choices"

Fake Fruit: "Every Time We Write a New Song I'm Amazed With How Quickly It Comes Together and How in Tune We Are to Each Other's Nonverbal Cues and Playing Styles. We Call It the Hive Mind"

Plexi Stad: "We Wanted To Break the Novelty Surrounding 'Probation Baby' and Followed Our Musical Language Which Appeared to Shift Towards a More Angular Sound"

Loose Lips: "We Didn't Want To Do Anything That Was Strictly Punk or Power Pop and Maybe in Doing So Focus on Creating Our Own Sound"

Artificial Go: "Playing Music Together Has Felt Like Playing Hopscotch on a Sunny Day"

Josephine Network: "I Have a Vivid Memory of My Dad Playing Me a 45 of 'Great Balls of Fire' by Jerry Lee Lewis and It Totally Freaked Me Out. I Have Been a Rock N Roll Victim Ever Since"

Brower: "I've Joked That This Is My 'Depression Album,' and I Was Conflicted About Whether It's Too Serious"

The Unpredictable and Unmistakable Sounds of Chris Burns & His Going Concerns

Sharp Pins: "Without All Ages Shows, I Wouldn't Have Met My Best Friends in the World and I Wouldn't Be Inspired at All to Do Anything I'm Doing, or at Least the Stuff I'm Doing Wouldn't Be Very Good"

Winston Hightower: "I Found Myself Falling in Love With Punk Instead of Art School"

Moon People: "As for How It Started, I Honestly Don't Remember. I Think Nick Just Wanted an Excuse To Buy That Broken Guitar Shaped Synth and It Sorta Got Outta Hand"

The Sheaves: An Ear-Scorching and Earthshakingly Spectacle

In The Red Records' Larry Hardy: "The Records All Sold Five or Six-Thousand Copies. Suddenly, I Was a Real Label" (Part Two)

Punks Want Fan Club, Not Lysol!

From Suicidal Actresses to The Thames, Here's Marcel Wave!