Review: Drunk Injuns
Drunk Injuns “From Where the Sun Now Stands I Will Fight No More Forever” (Alternative Tentacles) Drunk Injuns are skate punk band from the early 1980’s and the songs on this CD were recorded in that period. What that means…
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Review: The Fartz
The Fartz “Injustice” (Alternative Tentacles) It’s been a long time since 1982. I bought a copy of The Fartz, “World Full Of Hate” that summer from the Record Co-op at the University of Maryland. I put it on cassette so…
Review: Los Infernos
Los Infernos “Rock and Roll Nightmare” (Alternative Tentacles) This long awaited album is fabulous and delivers the rock n’ roll chaos they are known to cause! These outlaws unleash the rock n’ roll demons and rattle your knocker with some…
Review: “The Ecstasy Of The Agony”
Various Artists ““The Ecstasy Of The Agony”” (Alternative Tentacles) Winning the award for the largest compilation I’ve ever seen, Alternative Tentacles cleared their entire catalog (assumingly) and put together a disk containing 30 tracks by 30 different artists. Since Alternative…
Review: Half Japanese
Half Japanese ““Hello”” (Alternative Tentacles) It’’s odd to get an album, throw it in for the listen (that’s right, I actually listen to the albums I review) and enjoy it immediately. You listen and you know you must now write…
Review: M.I.A.
M.I.A. ““Lost Boys”” (Alternative Tentacles) When you get so many damn CDs each month, CDs that you didn’t particularly want, nearly every last one of them gets used for in-home skeet shooting. In-home skeet shooting is much like regular skeet…
Review: The Fartz
The Fartz ““What’s in a Name?”” (Alternative Tentacles) Ultra fast down and dirty speed punk from the heart of Pearl Jam country. The Fartz’s CD cover boasts “15 tracks of thrash and mayhem” and they aren’’t joking around. Any of…
Review: Fleshies
Fleshies “Kill the Dreamers Dream” (Alternative Tentacles) MC5-flavored, old school, punk rock ‘n’ roll that’s actually head and shoulders above the rest of the bands doing that kind of thing right now. Could’ve come out 15 or more years ago…
Review: Jello Biafra
Jello Biafra ““The Big Ka-Boom, Part One”” (Alternative Tentacles) Jello Biafra’s latest spoken word release primarily addresses the “war on terror”. Recorded in November of 2001 and some of Biafra’s comments have already proven prophetic. Sometimes his sense of humor…
Review: Jello Biafra
Jello Biafra “Machine Gun In The Clown’s Hand” (Alternative Tentacles) “America is now under marshal law,” begins Jello Biafra on his new spoken word CD. He continues, “See how easy it is to get people to embrace fascism by putting…