Music
Local Review: Die Monster Die – Only the Dead Will...
It’s another Die Monster Die release, and nothing is different from previous releases, but it’s still good. … read more
Local Review: Day of Less – Porcaria
Not only is Day of Less as tough as Hell’s Angels, they will get under your skin in the worst, or best of, ways, depending on how badly you need woken up. … read more
Local Review: Beard of Solitude – Broken Brain EP
Acoustic-driven pop-rock oddly recalling Mission of Burma and other late-80s art-alt bands come out in the Broken Brain EP, with some John Denver overtones. … read more
Local Review: Agape – Self-titled EP
One might compare Agape to Gold Standard Laboratory bands, and yeah, that’d be accurate, but one-man-band Ryan Powers leaves ’em all in the dust if you ask me. … read more
Local Review: The Awesome Possum Band – Blendn’ In
Covers include the Southern-accented “Wish You Was Here” and “Under the Milky Way.” The Awesome Possum Band is funny but not in an annoying way. … read more
Local Review: Gift Anon – Mum’s the Word
Heaps of reverb helps the darkness go down smooth and sugary, but in your stomach, it’ll explode with Gift Anon. … read more
Local Review: The Invisible Rays – Self-Titled
The Invisible Rays play often-slow, almost dirge-ish creep punk filled with plodding buzzsaw bass riffs, mournful or shouted vocals and sometimes-droning synths. … read more
Local Review: Iota – Three Tons
Iota, who, again, just to drive the point home, should be signed to Small Stone, combine the fast, catchy stoner fury of such luminaries as Fu Manchu … read more
Local Review: Medicine Circus – Bottle Rockets of Emotion
Medicine Circus combines the best of ’90s alt-rock with some grunge, catchy, accessible hooks, some technical sweeteners and ’60s psychedelia. … read more
Local Review: Mushman – Eddie Do
Nerdy and sensitive, sometimes sporting keys and vocal harmonies, Eddie Do makes me want to color with crayons, play with my computer and smile. … read more
Local Review: Never Never – EP + LP
The vocals of Never Never are the metal equivalent of screamo — one minute is intimate-disturbing-melodic crooning, the next is guttural screams. … read more
Local Review: The Second Opinion – Flesh Except Dust
I think with a name like the Second Opinion, I was expecting West Valley nü-metal crap trying to redeem itself with second-rate female vocals. … read more
