"Man! These guys are great!" - IGGY POP Everybody knows that The Hard-Ons have always been a pop band, right? That links to folks like Henry Rollins and bands like Poison Idea aside, they"ve always harbored a not-so-secret fetish for the enormous and soaring melodies of Big Star? However, this tendency has always been tempered by their equal love of thrash, hardcore and metal. So, for their tenth full-length studio album, The Hard-Ons - Ray Ahn, Blackie, and Pete Kostic - decided to try something a little different. They decided to make a pop record; a pure power pop record, but done in that unique Hard-Ons way. They"re still playing with the same irreverent fury that has made them perennial live favorites around the globe, but they"re doing so with a batch of songs that, in a perfect world, would be FM radio hits.