Top 10 Countdown: August 6, 2022

10. Young Culture - Tattoo
Last week: NEW!

9. Calling All Captains - Steady Pensive
Last week: 9.

8. Stand Atlantic Ft. Tom The Mail Man - Dumb
Last week: 5.

7. The Summer Set Ft. Against The Current - Teenagers
Last week: 8.

6. I Prevail - Body Bag
Last week: 7.

5. As It Is - I Hate Me Too
Last week: 6.

4. Grayscale - Motown
Last week: 4.

3. Waterparks - Funeral Grey
Last week: 3.

2. In Her Own Words Ft. Derek DiScanio (State Champs) - Circles
Last week: 2.

1. Sigrid Ft. Bring Me The Horizon - Bad Life
Last week: 1.

Top 10 Countdown: July 30, 2022

10. Sleeping With Sirens Ft. Spencer Chamberlain (Underoath) - Crosses
Last week: NEW!

9. Calling All Captains - Steady Pensive
Last week: NEW!

8. The Summer Set Ft. Against The Current - Teenagers
Last week: NEW!

7. I Prevail - Body Bag
Last week: 7.

6. As It Is - I Hate Me Too
Last week: 6.

5. Stand Atlantic Ft. Tom The Mail Man - Dumb
Last week: 5.

4. Grayscale - Motown
Last week: 4.

3. Waterparks - Funeral Grey
Last week: 3.

2. In Her Own Words Ft. Derek DiScanio (State Champs) - Circles
Last week: 2.

1. Sigrid Ft. Bring Me The Horizon - Bad Life
Last week: 1.

Special: 2021 In Review: Best Albums of 2021

30. 3OH!3 - NEED

Choice cut: I'm So Sad

29. Escape The Fate - Chemical Warfare

Choice cut: Lightning Strike

28. You Me At Six - Suckapunch

Choice cut: MAKEMEFEELALIVE

27. Weezer - Van Weezer

Choice cut: The End Of The Game

26. Dropkick Murphys - Turn Up That Dial

Choice cut: L-EE-B-O-Y

25. Trash Boat - Don't You Feel Amazing

Choice cut: Silence Is Golden

24. The Offspring - Let The Bad Times Roll

Choice cut: This Is Not Utopia

23. Ice Nine Kills - The Silver Scream 2: Welcome To Horrorwood

Choice cut: Rainy Day

22. A Day To Remember - You're Welcome

Choice cut: Last Chance To Dance (Bad Friend)

21. Mayday Parade - What It Means To Fall Apart

Choice cut: Notice

20. DE'WAYNE - Stains

Choice cuts: I Know Something, Stains

19. Angels & Airwaves - Lifeforms

Choice cuts: Rebel Girl, Losing My Mind

18. Rise Against - Nowhere Generation

Choice cuts: Broken Dreams Inc, Nowhere Generation

17. Turnstile - Glow On

Choice cuts: Turnstile Love Connection, Holiday

16. Every Time I Die - Radical

Choice cuts: Planet Shit, Sly

15. Spiritbox - Eternal Blue

Choice cuts: Yellowjacket, Hurt You

14. With Confidence - With Confidence

Choice cuts: What You Make It, Anything

13. Beartooth - Below

Choice cuts: Skin, Dominate

12. Like Pacific - Control My Sanity

Choice cuts: Waste Of Breath, Hallow Tears

11. Hawthorne Heights - The Rain Just Follows Me

Choice cuts: The Rain Just Follows Me, Holy Coast

10. Mod Sun - Internet Killed The Rockstar

Choice cuts: Karma, Betterman, Annoying

9. Calling All Captains - Slowly Getting Better

Choice cuts: Tailspin, Undone, Collapse

8. Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist

Choice cuts: Black Lungs, Little Wonder, Animals

7. Waterparks - Greatest Hits

Choice cuts: Violet!, Numb, Fuzzy

6. The Dirty Nil - Fuck Art

Choice cuts: Doom Boy, Done With Drugs, Elvis '77

5. jxdn - Tell Me About Tomorrow

Choice cuts: Think About Me, So What!?, Better Off Dead

4. The Maine - XOXO: From Love & Anxiety In Real Time

Choice cuts: Sticky, Pretender, Lips

3. We Were Sharks - New Low

Choice cuts: Shameless, Over This, Ashley Pt. 2

2. Chunk! No, Captain Chunk - Gone Are The Good Days

Choice Cuts: Blame It On This Song, Complete You, Marigold

1. Grayscale - Umbra

Choice cuts: Carolina Skies, Dirty Bombs, Babylon (Say It To My Face)

Special: 2021 In Review: Top 100 Singles of 2001: 20 - 11

PREVIOUS

20. Stereos - Hands Off You

19. Calling All Captains - Tailspin

18. The Maine - Lips

17. KennyHoopla - Hollywood Sucks//

16. Waterparks - Violet

15. As It Is - I Miss 2003

14. Silverstein - Bankrupt

13. We Were Sharks - Over This

12. With Confidence - What You Make It

11. Point North - Nice Now

NEXT

Special: 2021 In Review: Top 100 Singles of 2001: 40 - 31

PREVIOUS

40. Sunrise Skater Kids - Homeless Millennial

39. The Summer Set - Back Together

38. Beartooth - Skin

37. Jetty Bones - Nothing

36. Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! - Bitter

35. Machine Gun Kelly Ft. Kellin Quinn (Sleeping With Sirens) - Love Race

34. Calling All Captains - Undone

33. Silverstein - It's Over

32. Real Friends - Teeth

31. We Were Sharks - New Low

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Special: 2021 In Review: Top 100 Singles of 2021: 100 - 91

100. We The Kings - No 1 Like U

99. Atreyu - Catastrophe

98. jxdn - Dead Or Alive

97. AFI - Looking Tragic

96. Hot Milk - I Just Wanna Know What Happens When I'm Dead

95. A Day To Remember - Everything We Need

94. We Were Sharks - Bring Me Down

93. As It Is - IDC, I Can't Take It

92. Goody Grace - Grape Swisher

91. Calling All Captains - Laurel Canyon

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Special: First Listen Thoughts: Every Time I Die "Radical", Calling All Captains "Slowly Getting Better", Hot Milk "I Just Wanna Know What Happens When I'm Dead"

Every Time I Die - Radical

Label: Epitaph Records

Press release: Every Time I Die have detailed their ninth studio album, entitled ‘Radical’, the band’s first in five years. It follows 2016’s ‘Low Teens’. Lead vocalist Keith Buckley reflected on the overall themes of ‘Radical’ as an album, noting it deals in “difficult matters” that are also “universal and more communal experiences”. “The songs are realistic in that they acknowledge that things require a lot of work, but it’s ultimately a very hopeful and uplifting record,” he said.

My thoughts: I think we can officially put ETID in the conversation of consistant heavy bands with Silverstein and August Burns Red. Both those bands however release more music than ETID but the band has other pots on the stove (including professional wrestling??) Radical is a 16 track trip all over the soundscape we've come to expect from the band. Sly is probably my highlight but All This And War and the previously released Planet Shit are not far behind. Overall there wasn't any song I thought that wasn't good or at least interesting but given the near hour run time and those "interesting" tracks potentially not holding up over multiple listens I'm not quite prepared to claim Radical as the new best ETID record but it's certainly got the makings.

Calling All Captains - Slowly Getting Better

Label: Equal Vision Records

Press release: Titled Slowly Getting Better, the upcoming album from the Canadian pop-punk/post-hardcore quintet, Calling All Captains, is their debut full-length album and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via Equal Vision Records. The upcoming album intends to be a compilation of hardships, persistence, love, and acceptance, and is a thrilling follow-up to the 2019 EP, Nothing Grows Here. After their initial recording plans were halted in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the band was able to bring in their Nothing Grows Here producer, Quinn Cyrankiewicz, and safely record the album at The Audio Department in their hometown.

My thoughts: While the whole pop punk seems to be going in either an 808/emo rap direction or the blink-182 riffs route. Calling All Captains is still out here championing heavy pop-punk music like the early The Story So Far records and since TSSF has backed away from that styling I'm glad we have CAC coming out of the west coast of Canada to pick them up. The guitars are crunchy, the vocals are rough, loud and emotive and the song structures are nearly as strong as the lyrics around mental illness and hardships of being a First Nations kid in modern society. 

Hot Milk - I Just Wanna Know What Happens When I'm Dead

Label: Music For Nations

Press release: Hot Milk have announced a new EP, 'I Just Wanna Know What Happens When I’m Dead'. "These songs are honest," says Han Mee. "I have nothing to hide. Everyone’s on anti-depressants these days. It’s the world we live in, it makes people sad. Capitalism. Is it broken? 100 per cent. I’m angry that the fact that we’re sold a world that actually doesn’t make your inner peace happy. Humans need love and community and a lot of the time, there is no love and the community has dissolved. "We’re angry, both politically and existentially in terms of the system we now live in. But also, we’re angry at the fact that we’re sad quite a lot, but we’re trying to not just sit there and take it. We’re trying to fix it, by building a family through this band."

My thoughts: Hot Milk knows how to write a good hook. That fact is undeniable. The most negative thing I can think about is that I wish this was a full length. Between the 2 EP's the band has released they could've had one hell of a debut album but alas we must wait but hopefully it's worthwhile given all the influences we get on this record, from pop, to heavy guitars, classic rock-esque solo's, electronic elements and supreme song writing tackling the overwhelming feeling of being in this world.

Top 10 Countdown: November 6, 2021

10. Calling All Captains - Laurel Canyon
Last week: NEW!

9. With Confidence - What You Make It

Last week: NEW!

8. Nothing, Nowhere - Pieces Of You
Last week: NEW!

7. Stereos - Hands Off You
Last week: 8.

6. Bring Me The Horizon - Die4u
Last week: 6.

5. Real Friends - Teeth
Last week: 5.

4. State Champs - Just Sound
Last week: 4.

3. Grayscale - Dirty Bombs
Last week: 3.

2. Hot Milk - I Think I Hate Myself
Last week: 2.

1. Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! - Complete You
Last week: 1.

Top 10 Countdown: June 26, 2021

10. Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! - Bitter
Last week: NEW!

9. Calling All Captains - Tailspin
Last week: NEW!

8. Waterparks - Numb
Last week: 4.

7. KennyHoopla - Hollywood Sucks//
Last week: 8.

6. Waterparks - Violet!
Last week: 7.

5. Point North - Nice Now
Last week: 6.

4. We Were Sharks - Over This
Last week: 5.

3. With Confidence - Big Cat Judgment Day
Last week: 1.

2. Stand Atlantic Ft. Nothing, Nowhere - Deathwish
Last week: 3.

1. Silverstein - Bankrupt
Last week: 2.