"It's all been done before" Paul McKenzie sings halfway through The Real McKenzies' latest effort, Off the Leash. And though the Vancouver septet has been steadily churning out Scottish Highlands-influenced punk rock since 1992, that doesn't mean the formula is getting stale; adversely, like a dynamite bottle of Scotch, the McKenzies only go down smoother with age.

After label-hopping for more than decade, the McKenzies seem to be smitten with Fat Wreck. [more]