New Bruises

Tampa quartet New Bruises play an old-school take on street punk that's melodic and hooky without venturing too close to crossover pop. The band originated in the '90s pop-punk outfit Mid Carson July, who broke up following the release of 2001's well-received Wessel, after nearly a decade of scrabbling in their native Pennsylvania and adopted home of Florida. (Typical of the band's rotten luck and poor timing, Wessel was released by Fueled by Ramen Records a few years before the label's Fall Out Boy-led ascension to the top of the commercial pop-punk heap.) Three years later, ...