Review: Noise Ratchet
Noise Ratchet ““Till We Have Faces”” (The Militia Group) San Diego has got a really good local music scene which has been made possible by bands like Noise Ratchet. I saw these guys in San Diego a while ago and…
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Review: The Beautiful Mistake
The Beautiful Mistake “Light A Match, For I Deserve to Burn” (The Militia Group) Someone was so behind this release, and wanted us to check it out in advance so they burned us a CDR. The first one didn’t work.…
Review: Tora! Tora! Torrance! “Get into it”
Tora! Tora! Torrance!“Get into it”(The Militia Group) Sometimes when I’m out drinking myself into an raving idiot, some of the worst music that I have ever heard is played. Creed is blasting, and people are buggin’ the fuck out to…
Review: Copeland
Copeland “Beneath Medicine Tree” (The Militia Group) We all know that there has been a huge influx of emo bands pouring from the broken hearts, and sad childhoods of people everywhere. Many of these emo bands are painfully sappy, not…
Review: Stepping Stone Vol. 1
Various Artists “Stepping Stone Vol. 1: The Best Bands you have Never Heard” (The Militia Group) The idea behind this compilation is great. Take 15 unsigned bands, put one of their songs on a CD, sell it for a low price…
Review: Tora! Tora! Torrance!
Tora! Tora! Torrance! “A Cynic’s Nightmare” (The Militia Group) Kobe Bryant is big news, huh? I hate the Lakers but damn that’s a good story. Nick Koenigs’ first vocals on TTT!’s follow up to “Get Into It” are, “What’s wrong…
Review: The Rocket Summer
The Rocket Summer “Calendar Days” (The Militia Group) Songwriters are not making it very easy for me to hang my hat on their music. Although there is more than one way to skin a cat the techniques used by Rocket…
Review: Acceptance
Acceptance “Black Lines to Battlefields” (The Militia Group) These guys have got a lot of Jimmy Eat World in them, minus the omnipresent melodies. “Black Lines” is a little weird because it’s just seven tracks, which makes it either a…
Review: The Beautiful Mistake
The Beautiful Mistake “This is Who You Are” (The Militia Group) There’s a lot of ways to kick off your album, but a mid-tempo ballad probably isn’t the smartest. That’s the musical equivalent of you blurting out “I love you”…