What do these seven bands have in common? They all have new music posted on their MySpace pages.

Afterburner
Afterburner is the latest side project from Joey Cape of Lagwagon. Cape is joined by Todd Capps, member of another Cape side-project Bad Astronaut. The four songs posted on their MySpace page are Beatles-y / Elliott Smith-ish acoustic pop songs with drum programming and keyboards mostly. Cape sings on all the tracks, and wrote three of the four that are currently posted, though according to their blog, the duo will be collaborating on the writing process as the project progresses.

Greg Attonito
Weird, stoney, self-produced instrumental surf-rock from the singer of the Bouncing Souls.

The Get Go
The Get Go are a new band featuring former members of Mest, Allister, Showoff and Home Grown — a sort of a pop-punk supergroup comprised of members from bands who almost made it big. And The Get Go sound like an amalgam of all their former bands, who all sounded kinda similar to begin with. Think bratty polished pop-punk ala Drive-Thru Records. You can also check out Red Panda, the new electronic band from another former Home Grown member.

Enemy Alliance
Enemy Alliance formed out of the ashes of two of Sweden’s longest-running punk bands, Venerea and the Satanic Surfers. The band started out as a side project for everyone involved, but when the Surfers finally called it quits after nearly twenty years, Enemy Alliance became the primary musical focus for everyone involved. The three songs on their MySpace page are uptempo politically-charged melodic hardcore jags similar to the Surfers’ later material.

Frankie Stubbs
The one-time Leatherface leader will defy your expectations with the acoustic material posted on his MySpace page. Stubb’s gravelly growl cuts through the acoustic beauty of the piano, guitar and violin that accompanies him. The songs were recorded in Australia a few years ago, but here’s to hoping Stubbs follows thru on his desire to make an entire album of this kind of stuff.

The Terrible Twos
Usually songwriters aspire to mature, but Matthew Pryor of the Get-Up Kids longs to do the just the opposite. With his new project, The Terrible Twos, he takes a path carved out by They Might Be Giants and Dan Zanes in part II of their careers: making music for kids. “Do you know how to add, how to multiply and divide?” he asks on “Math Stomp,” which you can stream, along with the entire record here. And as you’d expect from Pryor, the Terrible Twos are awfully tuneful, and pretty much exactly what the Get-Up Kids would have sounded like had they gone acoustic and lowered their target demographic by 10 years.
The Terrible Twos - “Grumpy Bug”

Tumbledown
“This is the record I’ve wanted to make for a long time now,” says Mike Herrera (MXPX) of his new project Tumbledown, which he is also engineering and producing himself. What do they sound like? Like MXPX, only twangier. No records yet, but they do have shirts.

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