Review: The Jealous Sound
The Jealous Sound “Kill Them With Kindness” (Better Looking Records) Blair Shehan (singer of The Jealous Sound) has such a wussy voice, it’s so soft and cuddly, I feel like a fag for just liking it so damn much. It’s…
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Review: The Life and Times
The Life and Times “The Flat End of the Earth” (54′ 40′ or Fight!) Every band has members from different bands. It is near impossible to find a group of musicians who are in the band they originally started with.…
Review: The Riverboat Gamblers
The Riverboat Gamblers “Something to Crow About” (Gearhead) The Riverboat Gamblers are hard rockin’, Texan party-punk. No frills, no tricks, no politics, just turn it up to eleven and get silly. This is like a Southern-fried soundtrack to a re-make…
Review: The Black Keys
The Black Keys “thickfreakness” (Epitaph / Fat Possum Records) Every review of The Black Keys asserts that they are not The White Stripes. Like The White Stripes there are only two members, a drummer and ax-man. The keys contain two…
Review: The Business
The Business “Hardcore Hooligan” (BYO Records / Burning Heart) The Business can be summed up perfectly by the closing track on their latest album entitled ‘No One Likes Us’. Basically, they’re the Business and they don’t give a fuck if…
Review: The Casket Lottery
The Casket Lottery “Possibles and Maybes” (Second Nature Recordings) 20 b-sides, singles, comp. songs, and a kick ass Police cover of “Synchronicity 2” from indie rockers The Casket Lottery. If your already familar with The Casket Lottery I’m sure you…
Review: Swingin’ Utters “Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass and Bones”
Swingin’ Utters“Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass and Bones”(Fat Wreck Chords) The real question is, should I swap the “s” in “Utters” and “Swingin’” with dollar signs? The CD cover says “$wingin’ Utter$” but typing that looks stupid . Swingin’ Utters new…
Review: Skinless
Skinless “From Sacrifice to Survival” (Relapse Records) The band is called Skinless; would you accept it if they played anything other than death metal? Well, they do play death metal and the closest comparison I can think of off the…
Review: Audio Research Presents
Audio Research Presents “Rugged Radio Saturday: Mixed by DJ Craze” (Audio Research) Theres only one way to describe Rugged Radio Saturday mixed by DJ Craze. That is as a horribly good hip hop album. Excuse the oxymoron but thats the…
Review: Simply Saucer
Simply Saucer “Cyborgs Revisited” (Sonic Unyon) A seriously bizarre, early psych, mod, garage band. Think Os Mutantes, Syd Barret era Pink Floyd, the Velvet Underground, the Modern Lovers, early Red Crayola, Can, the Stooges . . . This is a…