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Carbonas &bull; <i>Your Moral Superior</i>

Carbonas • Your Moral Superior

Fast and furious punk blasts that are over by the time you catch up with the hook, keeping true to the Ramones’ quarter-mile aesthetic

Mutagénicos &bull; <i>3</i>

Mutagénicos • 3

Straight up garage-billy from Spain, filled with surf rock, psychedelic, and British Invasion references. The vocals are in Spanish, but the bad bad attitude is unmistakable.

The Green Goblyn Project • <i>Salvage</i>

The Green Goblyn Project • Salvage

On Halloween I fell asleep to this horror-punk platter playing, and dreamt of whirling in a mosh pit in a toxic swamp, catching elbows and knees from zombie alligators and bouncing off leaking radioactive waste barrels. I woke up covered in bruises.

Drive-By Truckers &bull; <i>The New OK</i>

Drive-By Truckers • The New OK

Yes, it’s the Drive-By Truckers, and they remain consistent to their deep Southern roots, but I had to keep checking the player to see who was sounding exactly like Dinosaur Jr. or riffing off Hall and Oates.