It’s the best of their three albums!

The band remains dedicated to making music that you’d want to hear at a backyard BBQ (“drinking by the pool,” if you will,) equal parts Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Buck Owens, and Carl Perkins. Rockabilly figures into the mix, but not exclusively; the band hits on a lot of tropes from Fifties and Sixties rock ‘n’ roll.

The Dogmatics are plugged in and good to go. Opening numbers ‘Key of B’ and the quick-paced ‘You’ve Got What I Want’ are melody drenched energetic power-poppers, showing there’s plenty of life in these old dogs. ‘Con Job’ then offers a very different pace, with its Country twang… whilst ‘Rainy Night’ drops some Bryds styled jangly tuneage. Getting the feel for their eclectic spirit? Yeah, it does work. ‘Nothing To Be Learned’ is another standout, catchy anthemic Clash pop. And ‘Library Girl’, now that’s ear candy!

Nowheresville is everything you could want from a Dogmatics album. At just ten tracks and with only two songs longer than three minutes, it doesn’t mess around. The songs are rockin’ and fun to sing along with but also quite profound in what they have to say. The band isn’t afraid to offer some nods to its early days, but it’s not stuck in the past. It’s no easy feat to make a record that successfully bridges the past, present, and future, but Nowheresville pulls off that very trick. Even as the album celebrates the legacy of Boston garage rock, it reminds us that that legacy is still being built today by a whole lot of great bands who continue to release exciting, inspired music…

Jerry Lehane is Boston rock ’n’ roll royalty. He and the O’Hallorans, who make up the band, were able to call on Tom Baker, Nervous Eaters’ Billy Loosigian, and John ‘J.G.’ Goetchius of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones to help make this too. Essentially, it distils rock ’n’ roll into 24 minutes… The whole damn thing is a sugar rush, though… Lean, mean, and without an ounce of fat it doesn’t need, “Nowheresville” is magnificent… Rating: 8.5/10

It’s been 39 years since the Dogmatics added a new LP to the archive of Boston rock history, but the group doesn’t sound any less gritty for the break. The Boston band’s garage rock prowess is a given, but it’s their ability to bridge the past (the schoolboy daydream “Library Girl”) with current moment (the social-media-skewering “No Likes No Comments”) that really revs the engine of “Nowheresville.”

The Dogmatics new album “NOWHERESVILLE” is living proof why these guys are more than just another band, they are a Boston institution that has gotten better with age.

Boston’s Loudest Family Tradition: The Dogmatics never chased industry approval. They built their name on sweat, grit, and the kind of garage rock that left calluses on your eardrums. When Paul O’Halloran passed in ‘86, it didn’t end the story. It just carved a pause into it, a quiet space held in his name. This record carries him like a tattoo under the sleeve – starting with the title, taken from a song he and Jerry Lehane never got to finish. It lived as a dusty live bootleg until now, when the band finally gave it a heartbeat in the studio…

Nowheresville is the record that officially made me a Dogmatics fan. To be fully honest, they had me hooked from opener The Key of B (those Stones-y harmonies!) and never let go. This is American rock ’n roll in optima forma, nodding to ’60s garage, ’70s classic rock, ’80s punk and college rock, and early ’00s alt-country. Somehow, it all fits, and it all hits.

The Dogmatics Are Going Places Fast With Lively New Album, “Nowheresville”: We found ourselves endlessly basking in the eclectic glow of “Nowheresville “ Tracks like “You’ve Got What I want, and “Library Girl” give off a Ramones/ Descendents vibe. While , we felt a folk/country / rockabilly feel with “Con Job” .So many bands tend only have one gear – this is definitely not the case with The Dogmatics on “Nowheresville” Every track on “Nowheresville” , from The Dogmatics, is better than the last . This is an album that is a must listen…

BOSTON’s finest garage icons THE DOGMATICS celebrate the dawning of a new era with today’s release of ‘Nowheresville,’ their first album in almost four decades. The ten-track long player celebrates family, friendship, and fun, with guest appearances from Tom Baker, Nervous Eaters’ Billy Loosigian, and John ‘J.G.’ Goetchius of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. “We have evolved from the band we once were based on our life experiences, and the experience you get from playing together for so long, said Jerry Lehane (guitar/vocs). We feel so grateful that we have the opportunity to release a new album.”

It seems like every time I do a covers show I find yet another version of that tune. Then came the release of the explosive new album by The Dogmatics, Nowheresville, destined to be one of my favorite albums of the year. That album’s final tune is “Bail Me Out” by Boston legends DMZ.

There’s so much to get excited about here and a big surprise at the end… It’s a salute to their roots in Boston punk. The group has a few different styles and influences that they use to make music but this Boston punk is ground zero. A few more years keeping this output up will require a second Dogumentary to tell the story.