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Wow, actually the only ones from your list that I knew were World Burns To Death (they're from around here, I believe), Career Suicide (who I really want to check out based on the reviews I've seen) and Some Kind Of Hate (I'm still waiting on my preordered vinyl of that from Bridge9). Unfortunately I'm still more interested in long dead bands than most of the new ones as far as Hard Core goes. I just don't hear much that sounds anywhere near as good as a lot of the bands that broke up 15 to 20 years ago. I'd rather listen to anything by Negative Approach than anything by most of the big names in "hard core" today. Too much metal and emo shit is being passed off as Hard Core nowadays. There are a few new bands I like, Mental is really good. We got to open up for them back in December at a couple of their shows here. Blood For Blood still get me going, Awkward Thought, while definitely not a new band, are fucking awesome. I'm also into a lot of street punk stuff, locally the Lower Class Brats are great, the Dead End Cruisers were really good, it's too bad they split up as their last album was amazing. The Ritchie Whites are another Austin band I like a lot. What I've heard from R'N'R and some of the other bands on Dead Alive records is really impressive too.

So did you pick that Descendents record up yet? How is it? I have to admit, I've been very wary of them since the first tour back together, it just seemed very insincere. I guess it could have been a bad night, but I just have a hard time with those guys and I've COMPLETELY given up on ALL.