Boston's Labor Hex Have Some Sweet Jams

Punk band Labor Hex have serious Massachusetts pedigree – their line-up features members of Read Yellow, Red Chord, Doom Riders, Phantom Glue, and Wormwood – but you can hear shades of Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu, Fugazi, Jesus Lizard in their music. You can also hear four pissed-off grown men, still figuring things out, still mad at the crushing monotony of everyday life.

"All I know is that it feels incredible to scream at the top of my lungs," says frontman Evan Kenney. "This was the first time that I had ever played music with these guys, as I was just an indie rock man-child in the midst of a total mental breakdown, so I guess that [the band] found me at a good point in my life to be in a punk band."

That sounds about right. Check out their debut EP, Lost In Calling, right here: