Ninja Gun is adept at playing down home, punk-influenced rock and roll with heart. Singer and guitarist Johnathan Coody taps into the vein of a great singer/songwriter tradition and intertwines it with a love of classic punk rock and loud guitars. The resulting sound is not quite like anything else, but when you hear it, you get the feeling that you’ve known it all along. The Valdosta, GA group's Southern roots are also prominently on display with some good front-porch-sitting, toe-tapping rhythms and twangy guitars thrown in for good measure. Their most recent album offers a good mix of up-tempo rockers and melodic ballads with lyrics that alternately lash out at the mainstream and look inward for answers. Coody is joined by his cousin Jeffrey Haineault who mans the drum throne with thunderous authority and often exhibits shirtless abandon. Old friends Jake Sparks and Thad Megow handle bass and guitar duties respectively.