Ray Ray speaks about a life behind the drum set.

Stories and pictures show the behind the scenes life of SoCal punk band Face to Face.

No coast (Top Shelf Records). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Overslept (Pure Noise). Review by Jen Cray.

All the punks who didn’t die became middle-aged and had children. Who could have imagined?

The Get Up Kids have, thankfully, outgrown the pop punk emo bands that copped their style 10 years ago, as a recent Orlando date proved to virgin listener Jen Cray.

My Dinosaur Life (Columbia Records). Review by Tim Wardyn.

LOVE Review by Jen Cray.

Four Year Strong

Alternative Press Magazine’s third annual tour sold out its Orlando date as All Time Low , The Rocket Summer , and a trio of other Teen Beat worthy bands made the girls and boys in the audience swoon. Jen Cray stood back and watched it all unfold.

Angels & Airwaves soared into Orlando recently, with a slew of young bands in tow. Jen Cray gave them a shot, but was not quite convinced.

I-Empire (Suretone/Geffen). Review by Jen Cray.

The Great Burrito Extortion Case (Jive). Review by Andrew Ellis.

Broadway Calls (State of Mind/Small Man). Review by Jen Cray.

Coming Home (Suretone/Geffen). Review by Andrew Ellis.

When Your Heart Stops Beating (Interscope Records). Review by Tim Wardyn.

Let It Happen (Deluxe Edition) (Tooth and Nail). Review by Andrew Ellis.

The annual O-Rock 105.9 No Snow Show had AFI in top billing with heavy support by Taking Back Sunday , Angels & Airwaves , Buckcherry , Sugarcult , Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Kill Hannah. Reporting deep inside the very _un_winter weather was Jen Cray.

Antidote For Irony (Fearless). Review by Aaron Shaul.

What do you get when you mix Rancid’s Tim Armstrong and Blink 182’s Travis Barker with a roadie-turned-rapper? The Transplants answer Jen Cray’s question on this year’s Warped Tour.