This comp features tracks from bands on Nevada’s SquidHat Records, and it skews heavily into the pop side of punk, including a rockabilly cover of “The Lady is a Tramp,” and rampant multipart vocal harmonies over clean, anguished chord progressions. The inclusion of two separate Prince covers (“Erotic City” and “Raspberry Beret,” covered by the New Waves and the Dirty Panties respectively) hits the spot for me, but the rest is too borderline Fall Out Boy for my taste. That’s not to say pop punkers won’t like this sampler, which covers a lot of ground within the genre, though. And everyone who listens through to the end will be rewarded by Hit Me Baby’s so-wrong-it’s-right medley of punk-edged Britney Spears covers. –Lyle (SquidHat, squidhatrecords.com)