Fleshies “The Sicilian” (Alternative Tentacles) I slapped this disc into the player, sat down to write the review and immediately jumped up and cranked the volume up another couple notches. This is what a reviewer waits to have fall in…
Deadweight “Stroking The Moon” (Alternative Tentacles) Despite an incredibly heavy undercurrent to the majority of their material, there’s just something so incredibly lame about Deadweight’s Stroking The Moon. The funked-up groove of tracks such as “The Bottle Song” are this…
Pansy Division “Total Entertainment!” (Alternative Tentacles) Pansy Division is getting older and so is their music. “Total Entertainment!” is the seventh full-length album from this group of gay rockers and it is the most mature. In the family of PD albums…
Comets on Fire “Self-Titled” (Alternative Tentacles) I, for one, haven’t been impressed with a lot of the garage revival shit going on right now. So few of the bands really capture the essential “strangeness” of the whole thing, instead offering…
Wesley Willis & The Dragnews “Greatest Hits Volume 3” (Alternative Tentacles) Oh man, what can you even say? It’s brutally sad when such a promising (and schizophrenic in the truest sense of the word) musical career is cut short due…
Thrall “Lifer” (Alternative Tentacles) Thrall’s Mike Hard (God Bullies) continues to deliver kick-ass hard rock with lyrics to commit to heart. It is fitting that Thrall come onto the Alternative Tentacle roster because Jello Biafra’s lifelong message of anti-authoritarian individualism…
The Phantom Limbs “Displacement” (Alternative Tentacles) Listening to a Phantom Limbs album is like attending a heavy metal circus while peaking on acid-a wonderful experience, I guarantee you. Their new album continues down the same path as their first, “Applied…
Harold Ray “Live in Concert” (Alternative Tentacles) The idea is so simple and effective that it borders on genius. Why not ditch all music of the last several decades and recreate something that has already worked, namely horn-driven scorching R&B.…
Harold Ray “Live in Concert” (Alternative Tentacles) This disc is a virtual soundtrack to sin-likely to inspire ass shaking, heavy drinking and degenerate carnality. I can get a bit repetitive, but while participating in any of the aforementioned activities, one…
The Evaporators “Ripple Rock!” (Alternative Tentacles) I don’t know what “Ripple Rock” is and it’s probably because it doesn’t mean anything. Or maybe it does. Either way, if The Evaporators are ripple rock, I dig it. I really have to…