Nicotine “Samurai Shot” (Asian Man Records) If NOFX were from Kyoto, they’d be Nicotine. Or, I guess, if Nicotine were from California, they’d be NOFX. “Samurai Shot” contains a whopping twenty-five tracks of SoCal sounding punk rock by way of…
Link 80 ““The Struggle Continues…”” (Asian Man Records) Poor Link 80-they missed fame and popularity (not to mention thousands of cute, adoring, teenage fans, and being on the cover of Teen People) by only the letter B and the numbers…
Angelo Moore as Dr. Madd Vibe ““The Yin Yang Thang”” (Asian Man Records) “Flow to the coconut groove grove with milkshakes, gumbo and a hurricane to drink/Now let’s smoke a bowl of ganja and think!”…Just shy of a Malcolm X…
Polysics ““Hey! Bob! My Friend”” (Asian Man Records) Cutesy electronic mayhem. Some guitars and drums with some sloppy chops thrown together against this eternal babble of a techno landscape sounding like a sonic equivalent to a Jackson Pollack painting. Vocals…
The Peacocks ““Angel”” (Asian Man Records) The Peacocks seem to pull their style from the cream of every decade since the Great Depression. The general drive is definitely punk and rockabilly, but the smooth standup bass and sparkling hollow body…
Short Round “Language” (Asian Man Records) Short Round puts forth ten tracks of punchy electric pop on their debut album “Language.” All ten songs (really a Short Round, as they clock in at just under 28 minutes) are cleverly written…
MU330 “Ultra Panic” (Asian Man Records) Fourteen years, four continents and 16 countries later MU330 are back with their 7th full length release “Ultra Panic”. The album sounds more ska than ever. But don’t let that stop you from…
Matt Skiba & Kevin Seconds “Split CD” (Asian Man Records) I pretty much always hate splits, but this one is fantastic. Matt Skiba is the lead singer for Alkaline Trio and Kevin Seconds (like you didn’t know) is the lead…
Mike Park “For The Love Of Music” (Asian Man Records) Stories told acoustically from who else, Mike Park. There’s a cool progression of pictures showing Mike from baby almost every year to 2003. It’s kind of cool to see how…