Jim Testa has been a friend of mine for over 15 years. Good guy, great magazine. Here's what he had to say about our new record.

GROUCHO MARXISTS – Manifesto! (myspace.com/wrappedinplasticrecords)

My old friend Alex Saville once said that the great thing about older punk bands is that they throw everything at you – great songwriting, impressive chops, precision, good equipment, and studio savvy. Ironically, he said that about Chris Pierce's old band Doc Hopper and now here we are, about 10 years later, and Pierce is still rocking out like a motherfucker. Distracted by things like running a recording studio, playing in other bands, moving, and first-time fatherhood, it's taken Pierce a few years to actually get this CD out, but Manifesto! proves well worth the wait. With the vocals just barely breaking through a roiling, blaring wall of melodic guitar noise and thrashing drums, the GM's storm through 13 tracks here with unapologetic fury. For want of a better term, this is pop-punk, but you'd be hard pressed to find another pop-punk band that plays with this much intensity or packs such a wallop. Head-bobbing, fist-pumping rockers like "Season Opener" and "Yeah Yeah Yeah" alternate with the brawny new-wavy "I Just Wanna Hold You" and "The President Is Out To Get Her" (think Joe Jackson on steroids,) the undulating, SST-era punk of "New Favorite Enemy" and "Hey Janeane," and the Buzzcockian effervescence of "Classic Example Of Perfect Timing." There's a dozen tracks here and not a dud in the bunch, as Pierce and his band of New Brunswick veterans prove that the other Groucho was right: Getting older is no problem, you just have to live long enough. – Jim Testa

And on another note, curmudgeonly old fuckface Larry Livermore said this about us in a stupid message board-based feud he and I are currently in:

The Groucho Marxists.

Yeah, you've made your point, I like melody and harmony, you like tuneless bombast. 

Awesome. Thanks Larry.