The good

Music I've been listening to a lot lately:

Dustheads - Tall Tales I & II:
This is one of my favorite bands to come out in the 2000's. The mix of punk with the Sabbathesque riffs, while not groundbreaking, is one of my favorite combinations (the best example being Annihilation Time). These records make me want to get drunk.

For Science - Tomorrow's Just Another Day
Their first record was a straight pop punk record, which was sick and one of my favorites. But this record and the one that came after it were creative and took the "ramonescore" sound somewhere different, and it worked really well.

Nomos - demo
Straight ahead hardcore from Brooklyn. This demo is awesome, not to echo the hyperbolic praise that MRR gave it, but it does stand out from the pack of bands playing purist hc these days.
download here:
http://icoulddietomorrow.blogspot.com/2009/04/nomos-demo.html

Cult Ritual - The first three ep's.
Hardcore band from Florida, and one of the best bands going today. awesome, dirty sounding hardcore and they cover my favorite Sonic Youth song.
cultmaternal.blogspot.com