Brian: While, as previously stated, I'm not quite the biggest fan of making a band an MP3 of the Week I plan on reviewing later anyway -- for reasons besides making it a hype extravaganza -- we admittedly haven't done an MP3 of the Week altogether in quite a while. And frankly, the new EP from Philadelphia's No Roses is damn good enough to make it an exception on its own. To put it in a nutshell, they're picking up where Give Up the Ghost left off, and that's a very, very good thing. These two tracks are taken from Hell or High Water, out in early November from the good folks at State of Mind Recordings (responsible for This Is Hell's fantastic self-titled EP released earlier this year).

No Roses - "Hell or High Water"
No Roses - "On and Off the Road"