Gunfighter/Traindodge “Split CD” (Ascetic Records) Since both artists contributed only two songs, I’m just going to do a stream of consciousness thing here-sort of like that one part in Flaubert’s “Madam Bovary” with the carriage ride through the city. Here…
Riddle of Steel “The Python” (Ascetic Records) Progressive indie rock? Hard to nail this one down. It slides effortlessly through some unclaimed realm of rock tinged with a vocalist that can do a younger sounding, smooth Mike Patton while jagged…
Gravity Propulsion System “Poison Rays Of Sound” (Ascetic Records) Brash and trashy, Gravity Propulsion System take a little slice of early Alice Cooper and their “fall apart at any minute” gutter-rock tradition, but update it with—don’t hold it against them—a…