Scott: Seeing Moneen in an intimate setting this past Thursday was awesome enough, but The Fullblast tear it up was the icing on the rock and roll cake. This Canadian quintet rocked me senseless with their infectious blend of [early] Saves The Day-meets-Grade-meets-[early] Get Up Kids-meets-Lagwagon. Check out these two tracks off their new CD Contagious Movement Theory, out in Canada on Blackbox Recordings:
The Fullblast - All I Need Is A Jetpack and Some Rollerskates The Fullblast - Phase One: The Epidemic
For more information on the Fullblast, go to TheFullblast.com.

Aubin: With all the talk about the new Descendents record, not as much has been said about this new "side-project" from Descendents drummer, Bill Stevenson. Besides Stevenson, it includes current and former members of Good Riddance, Converge, Bane, and Hagfish. If you guessed that it's some sort of hardcore, you'd probably be right, but the recordings so far promise more then you'd expect from that simple description.
Only Crime - To The Nines Only Crime - The Real Enemy
For more information, you can visit onlycrime.com