Music
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
Local Review: Drew Danburry – Besides
Drew Danburry vulnerable, naked-heart-on-the-sleeve, psychologically-helpless indie-rock folk spillings—it’s not bad, alright? … read more
Local Review: The Horns – Yellow T
At least, mine came with a section of T-shirt with hand-drawn flowers on it courtesy of Dave Styer, one-half of The Horns’ double-pronged axe-destroying machine. … read more
Local Review: State & Stereo – The Reservoir
Ragged guitar, lo-fi production, cool keyboards with slippage and astounding songwriting rescue State & Stereo from over-polished indie-rock oblivion … read more
Local Review: Subterranean Masquerade – Suspended Animation Dreams
Subterranean Masquerade’s much-anticipated first full-length album picks up where two-song EP Temporary Psychotic State left off, giving Pink Floyd psychedelia. … read more
