Downer folk tunes that have been tempered in the steam cooker of Orlando Florida, Among Giants is equal parts bummed out and pissed off. These are songs that get guitar strings breaking like it's their job.

Location: Orlando, Florida
Music: http://amonggiants.bandcamp.com/
Info: http://www.amonggiantsfl.com/
Contact: amonggiantsfl@hotmail.com

Pop Punk from New Hampshire

You used to have a pair of shorts that we're weathered perfectly, with an anarchy patch of the right buttcheek and one belt loop missing, but then you lost them. Those shorts got pissed, grew some scruffy facial hair, and ran away to start a punk band called Burning Bridges. Now those shorts play their honest and down-to-earth brand of fun punk in sweaty basements, and everyone bobs their heads and plays air guitar. Your shorts are living their dreams, so don't miss them, even though they miss you.
Politically charged pop-punk band with a touch of emo and hardcore punk. (ex. Young Mountain)
Location: Keene, New Hampshire
Music: http://burningbridgesnh.bandcamp.com/
Info: http://www.facebook.com/burningbridgesnh
Contact: burningbridgesnh@gmail.com

As it turns out, stray cats from Flemmington, New Jersey have gained the ability to construct complex human exoskeletons and play instruments. Three of them started a folk/pop/punk band called Button Up! They play shows and like getting their little tummy-wummies rubbed.

Location: Flemmington, New Jersey
Music: http://buttonup.bandcamp.com/
Info: http://www.facebook.com/buttonupnj
Contact: buttonupnj@gmail.com or 908 391 7832 (Mike Haller)

Tune into Chaotic Neutral and you'll have a hard time wiping the scowl off your face as you thrash around your bedroom with kitchen knives, carving relief sculptures of dead celebrities into your walls.

Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Info: http://chaoticneutralftw.blogspot.com/
Music: http://chaoticneutral.bandcamp.com/
Contact: http://www.facebook.com/chaoticneutralftw?sk=info

Hardcore punk with one foot in the door and one foot on the lawn. The door of course being the front door of Henry Rollins' party mansion and the lawn of course being covered in empty root beer bottles and stolen frat house banners.

Location: Keene, New Hampshire
Music: http://coldsneer.bandcamp.com/
Info: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cold-Sneer/263446527016035
Contact: ndking@live.com

Count Us Out? COUNT ME IN! (Yikes) These young pop-punkers have pogo-anthems for days, and will have you finding new reasons to high-five your best friends in no time.

Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Info: http://www.facebook.com/countusout?sk=info

Do you like punk music and do you also like sing-alongs too as well? Bang your head to some Criminal Culture and get so stoked that your head might actually fall off. Plus, I heard you get into their shows for free for life if you get “CRIM CULT” tattooed on your knuckles. WORTH IT.

Location: Tampa, Florida
Music: http://criminalculturefl.bandcamp.com/
Info: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Criminal-Culture
Contact: holdtightrecords@mail.com

Pop Punk from Ohio
Zach Powers: Vocals, Guitar
Alex Collins: Lead Bass
John Hoffman: Drums, Vocals

Have you ever felt like you had that feeling where you felt like you wished someone felt the way you felt and felt like talking about that feeling? This one's for the kid in the back, who has that feeling, and feels the same way.

Location: Plattsburgh, New York
Music: http://forthekidintheback.bandcamp.com/
Info: http://www.facebook.com/pages/For-the-Kid-in-the-Back/127868027260367
Contact: forthekidintheback@gmail.com

A scientist from the future traveled to the past to created dark, lo-fi electronic music, and then traveled to the present to play it for you in your basement. His beard is red like the flame in his Bunsen Burner and the buttons on his Chaos Pad.

Location: Outer Space

Richmond, VA pop-punk that's just the right consistency for circle pits and pogo-punking. Good luck not getting down with these tunes in a super posi way, playing a good clean game of Hot Pit-tato. They are the brains behind Stay Sweet Fest

Location: Richmond, Virginia
Music: http://holdtight.bandcamp.com/
Info: http://www.facebook.com/holdtightva?sk=info
Contact: wilhelmak@mymail.vcu.edu

Earnest, honest, and earthy. These are riot songs sung with a biting wit and a witty bar., Derek Zanetti is as much a storyteller as he is a musician, and He refuses to let you get complacent and ignore the problems. Not just your problems, but everyone's.

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Info: http://www.thehomelessgospelchoir.com/
Contact: dzanetti83@hotmail.com
Music: http://thehomelessgospelchoir.bandcamp.com/

Younger than your youngest sibling, and more talented than your oldest, Jake's old for his age but not too old for pizza, pillowfights, and punk-rock. Be his friend and have some good times. Or don't and don't.

Location: Potomac, MD
Info: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jake-Lazovick/124404297614935
Music: http://getbetterrecords.bandcamp.com/album/see-you-soon
Contact: jakelazovick@gmail.com

Do you like folk music? Yes? Well then you must love really good folk music. Well then you must love Lilith. This is the real deal. You can tell because of the harmonies and the upright bass. Sit on your porch and sip some lemonade barefoot. (members of Code Orange Kids)

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Info: http://www.facebook.com/lilithpa
Music: http://lilithband.bandcamp.com
Contact: kimihanauer@yahoo.com

Did you know that some of your teachers can play guitar? Some of them can even make some wild rock tunes and wail 'em out like they mean it (which some of them do). At least one of them is named Ryan. Only one of them goes by the name Mini Fridge.

Location: Greenville, SC

Punk-rock's little brother. He slops around the strings and thrashes his words and bores some real-life metaphorical nails into your skull. It's dim lights and green hair and emotional yelps from a more punker pup than you've probably ever met.

Location: Greenville, SC
Music: http://noaheagle.bandcamp.com
Info: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Noah-Eagle/162394970466120
Contact: noaheagle@ymail.com

Fun-punk slammer-jammers NONA can teach you how to skateboard if you're willing to cut your jeans into shorts and pin one of their buttons directly onto your chest. Seriously, you will be kickflipping TONIGHT if you pierce your own skin with their merchandise.

Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Info: http://www.facebook.com/pages/NONA/210655408974754?sk=info
Music: http://www.nonawc.bandcamp.com
Contact: edwmcnulty@gmail.com

Politi-punk power-pals from Beantown, Mass. Turn those blog fingers into pissed-fists and plug into some solid punk jams that push-pit your mind as well as your heart. (ex. Credentials)

Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Info: to punx
Music: http://peeplewatchin.bandcamp.com/
Contact: smashitdead@gmail.com

Crust it down and power it up, because Bloomington just got thrashy. That cloud that's brewing over Indiana is dark and heavy and is going to pummel those corn fields into corn meal. A storm is coming. A Rat Storm.

Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Info: http://rodentcrust.blogspot.com
Music: http://ratstorm.bandcamp.com/
Contact: andersjc@indiana.edu

Do you wish you had something to get annoyed with? Not quite sure who this “The Man” is that everyone keeps talking about? Rubrics can school you on what it means to be socially conscious, and they can also middle school you if you're into reading, riting, and 'rithmetic. DON'T CALL THEM POP-CRUST.

Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Info: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rubrics/141732319197955?sk=info
Music: http://rubrics.bandcamp.com
Contact: hangargv@gmail.com

60% dreary and 100% DIY, Super Famicon keeps it really real. He's not a rockstar, and he's more proud of that than you are of any trophy in any box in your closet. He's a radical dude whose musical stylings have range and strange.

Location: St. Augustine, FL
Info: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Super-Famicom/256405624395986
Music: http://superfamicom.bandcamp.com
Contact: thegazepunk@gmail.com

The kind of indie/folk music that indie/folk music would make if it were a person who was REALLY GOOD at writing indie/folk music. George is a fantastic writer, a poet really, along with being a total sweetheart. Grow you out a beard to these ones.

Location: Keene, NH
Info: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Lake-And-The-Lion/143808029040
Contact: georgefbarber@gmail.com

Folk/rock outfit from up the road in New England, they probably write most (or all) of their music in a barn. Seriously, their CDs smell like hay. It's actually very comforting. Sing-alongs galore. Looks like it's time to learn to whittle.

Location: Keene, NH
Music: http://www.youtube.com/mildrevolution
Info: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Mild-Revolution/161523424957
Contact: themildrevolution@gmail.com

Tyler is that really awesome guy with a guitar. He loves music more than you love your parents, and even invented the City Folk genre, revolutionizing the way acoustic yell-jams will be approached forever. He hides a whole party inside his hair and you're all invited! NO JERKS ALLOWED.

Location: Lowell, Massachusetts
Info: http://www.tragwag.com
Music: http://tragwag.bandcamp.com/
Contact: tragwag@gmail.com