Oma Oklahoma – Normalnull
(post-punk) (garage-punk)
Hamburg, Germany🇩🇪

Acne – Crash Club
(emo) (shoegaze)
Charlotte , North Carolina🇺🇸

Fake Eyes – A Drip Is All We Know
(post-hardcore) (indie-punk)
Charlotte, North Caroilina🇺🇸

Apsurd – Svemu će doći kraj
(hardcore) (anarcho)
Belgrade, Serbia🇷🇸

Shameover – Stay Down
(pop-punk) (indie-punk)
Vancouver, British Columbia🇨🇦

The Jones Street Boys – Roker
(punk rock) (shedrock)
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK🇬🇧

As In Everyday – Such An Awful Waste
(emocore) (post-hardcore)
New York City, NY🇺🇸

Ow! My Face – Self Titled
(street-punk) (punk rock)
Christchurch, New Zealand🇳🇿

Lethal Limits – Off The Grid
(lo-fi) (indie-punk)
Oakland, California🇺🇸

Hällregn – Self Titled
(punk) (garage-punk)
Stockholm, Sweden🇸🇪

The first CD I ever bought was “Something Green & Leafy This Way Comes” by SNFU. I found myself standing in an HMV at a time when punk wasn’t popular enough to have it’s own section. It was just mixed in with the “alternative” section. I wasn’t really sure what to buy, but when I saw SNFU I remembered hearing them on the radio and they sounded pretty punk. “Green & Leafy” was the only album in stock, so I got it. That album was kind of a departure, for them, into alternative rock and when I first heard it I was like “what is this shit? It sounds like The Tragically Hip! I totally failed my first CD purchase!” It wasn’t a very well received album by me or (if I remember correctly) (I often don’t) their core fans, but it grew on me because it was the only CD I had. I didn’t even own my own CD player yet, so I had to wait till my sister was out of the house so I could use her stereo to rock out. I remember air-guitaring to it, shirtless, in her bedroom with the lights off and a crack of sun coming in through the blinds. To this day I still have a strong connection to songs like “Painful Reminder” , “This Is A Goodbye” and “Reality Is A Ride On The Bus”. 

“You’d be surprised at the ones that slip deep into the dark abyss, never to be seen again. Well this is a goodbye to them” 

This is my goodbye to Chi Pig of the mighty SNFU who we lost on July 16th. Chi, if you’re reading this (LMFAO). Thanks for the tunes man. 

Moving on to this months top ten. What about it? It’s right there. Go listen to it. It’s chock-full of rad albums by bands from all over the world. There’s a band in there who wrote a song about arguing with your barber because he won’t give you a mullet. See if you can find it. It’s like a scavenger hunt and the prize is music that doesn’t suck. If you have even more time to waste, make sure you check out the SCRAP HEAP for heaps of other great releases from July. Follow me on Twitter @SteveDoesnt and join The Doesn’t Suck group on Facebook. Be cool, stay safe, yeah bye.