Anti-Flag

Guitar bombast! Choirs of schoolboys! Mumia Abu-Jamal on the horn from death row! Anti-Flag aren't wont to mince words about the good ole US of A (or, depending on your view, the "prison house of nations") on their eighth collection of orotund politi-punk. When the time comes to leave the half-pipe and hit the streets, cue up "We Are the Lost" and "The Smartest Bomb."

Pittsburgh punks Anti-Flag have long proclaimed their leftist outrage on their albums, and
they act on their convictions too: The band's press bio lists ten different organizations its
members have worked with, from Amnesty International to PETA. Unfortunately, The Bright
Lights of America, Anti-Flag's second major-label album and eighth overall, proves for the
billionth time that good intentions don't always make good music. With producer... More >