Review: Howie Beck
Howie Beck “Hollow” (Future Farmer) This guy sounds so much like Elliott Smith. The vocals and the acousto-pop music are as close to Smith’s as one can get without copyright infringement. Even the lyrics are as similar as can be,…
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Review: Mock Orange
Mock Orange “Nines and Sixes” (Lobster Records) Crafted and well-executed guitar indie rock. Hear the Braid influences in the struggling guitars, vocal harmonies and penchant for rolling drum beats. The angry bee scrimmaging of guitars in, “Does it Show” play…
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…
Review: Jettbrando
Jettbrando “Jagged Junktion” (Go Kart Records) Experimental trancey rock, that will mess with your head. Dark fuzzy guitars that are kind of on the back burner, served with a side of jazzy drumming, and Coldplayesque vocals, seasoned with some groovy…
Review: Jets To Brazil “Perfecting Loneliness”
Jets To Brazil “Perfecting Loneliness” (Jade Tree) A inspirational tribute to the cutting, flesh and bone reality that is life. This is definitely JTB’s most polished and complete album to date which is probably attributable to shedding the skin of…
Review: Kicked in the Head
Kicked in the Head “Salita” (Resurrection A.D.) This is my first CD review of the month and it’s an EP. Just a little five-tracker. That might not mean much to you, but that’s because you don’t have thirty-plus damn reviews…
Review: The Early November
The Early November ““For All Of This”” (Drive-Thru) This band has been getting a lot of hype for being one of the best new indie rock bands to hit the scene in the past year. My brother had an opportunity…
Review: Falling Cycle
Falling Cycle “The Conflict” (Facedown Records) Heavy metal and hardcore, you’ve heard it a thousand times before but it is becoming very popular and a lot of people apparently dig it. Falling Cycle does a good job of covering the…
Review: Fall With Me
Fall With Me “Rise, Phoenix, Rise” (Spat!) Have you guys been to that Brookestone store recently? Sure, it’s a snobby, yuppie store, but those back massagers they have there are incredible. After just a few minutes sitting on that one…
Review: Fighting Music 2
Various Artists “Fighting Music 2” (Death Wish / Lumberjack) Doesn’t thirty-five artists sound a little big for a compilation? I mean, if this truly is “fighting music”, thirty-five tracks is going to be some kind of royal rumble, nahsayin? “Fighting…