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Band: Power Trip Album: Manifest Decimation Release Date: June 11, 2013 Genre: Thrash Metal/Crossover Expectation: 7.4/10 Reality: 7.9/10

Band: Pity Sex Album: Feast of Love Release Date: June 25, 2013 Genre: Lo-fi/Noise Pop Expectation: 7.0/10 Reality: 5.6/10

Band: Turnstile Album: Step 2 Rhythm EP Release Date: February 7, 2013 Genre: Hardcore Punk/Groove Metal/Punk Metal/Rap Metal Expectation: 7.7/10 Reality: 6.9/10

Band: Mount Moriah Album: Miracle Temple Release Date: February 26, 2013 Genre: Alt-Country/Indie Folk Expectation: 5.5/10 Reality: 7.3/10

Band: Altar of Plagues Album: Teethed Glory and Injury Release Date: April 30, 2013 Genre: Black Metal/Post Metal/Experimental/Industrial Expectation: 6.3/10 Reality: 7.5/10

Band: Faderhead Album: FH4 Release Date: March 1, 2013 Genre: Electronic/Dance Expectation: 6.5/10 Reality: 4.8/10

Band: The Gathering Album: Afterwords Release Date: Art Rock/Ambient/Prog Rock Genre: October 25, 2013 Expectation: 5.9/10 Reality: 7.3/10

Band: Tribulation Album: The Formulas of Death Release Date: March 1, 2013 Genre: Death Metal/Thrash Metal/Atmospheric Black Metal Expectation: 6.5/10 Reality: 6.7/10

Band: Toh Kay Album: The Hand That Thieves Release Date: April 30, 2013 Genre: Acoustic/Folk Expectation: 7.5/10 Reality: 6.8/10

Band: Modern Life Is War Album: Fever Hunting Release Date: September 9, 2013 Genre: Hardcore Expectation: 6.7/10 Reality: 5.5/10

Band: Various Artists (The Gaslight Anthem,Bad Religion, Lagwagon, The Bouncing Souls ...) Album: The Songs of Tony Sly: A Tribute Release Date: October 29, 2013 Genre: Pop Punk/Punk Rock Expectation: 6.5/10 Reality: 5.9/10

Band: FIDLAR Album: FIDLAR Release Date: January 22, 2013 Genre: Garage Rock/ Punk Rock/Surf Rock Expectation: 6.7/10 Reality: 6.1/10

Band: The Long Cold Dark Album: The Inner Workings of Infinity Release Date: June 1, 2013 Genre: Groove Metal/Prog Metal/Thrash Metal Expectation: 6.3/10 Reality: 6.6/10 Listen/Buy  here  the record!

Band: Dave Hause Album: Devour Release Date: October 7, 2013 Genre: Rock and Roll/Punk Rock Expectation: 6.8/10 Reality: 7.4/10

Band: Childish Gambino Album: Because the Internet Release Date: December 10, 2013 Genre: Hip Hop Expectation: 6.8/10 Reality: 7.0/10

Title: Filmage The Story of Descendents/ALL Release Date: 2013 The story of Descendents, considered to be the founder of pop punk and ALL, the band guilty of not being Descendents. Descendents and ALL made music the way it's supposed to be, from the heart. This is an amazing movie, Dave Grohl, Mark Hoppus, Brian Baker, Brett Gurewitz, Joey Cape, Tim McIlrath and many more participations. But the man of the movie is Bill Stevenson. Watch it!

Top Five is back and to celebrate its return, a list of the definitive ska albums. I know ska is much older than the bands on the list and that I've forgotten many pioneers of ska like Jimmy Cliff and Laurel Aitken. However notice that I will be focusing on 3rd Wave Ska. Enjoy! In case you're wondering, we do have a delightful playlist dedicated to ska/ska punk, check it out: 5) Streetlight Manifesto - The Hands That Thieve Release Date: March 26, 2013 4) Rancid - Life Won't Wait Release Date: June 30, 1998 3) Less Than Jake - Anthem Release Date: May 20, 2003 2) Reel Big Fish - Turn the Radio Off Release Date: August 13, 1996 1) Goldfinger - Hang-Ups Release Date: September 9, 1997

Band: TesseracT Album: Altered State Release Date: May 27, 2013 Genre: Prog Metal Expectation: 7/10 Reality: 4.5/10

Band: Justice Album: Access All Arenas Release Date: May 6, 2013 Genre: House/Electronic Expectation: 8/10 Reality: 7/10

Band: Sharks Album: Selfhood Release Date: April 30, 2013 Genre: Punk Rock Expectation: 7.5/10 Reality: 5/10