Music
Review: Codeseven – Dancing Echoes/Dead Sounds
Apparently Codeseven were once a screamcore band whose high watermark was a cover of “Boys of Summer.” One day they got older, heard Radiohead and traded in their metal. … read more
Review: Dynasty – Black Box
Dynasty, however, are rather enjoyable in that they take all the hand claps and mix it with a certain sleazy sound that has the same texture as a Soft Cell album. … read more
Review: Starflyer 59 – Talking Voice VS. Singing Voice
It’s epic in a small box theater, but not exactly made for big booming stadiums. … read more
Review: Kasabian – Self-Titled
Kasabian Self-Titled RCA Kasabian have been a guilty pleasure of mine since hearing the opening of “Club Foot.” Granted, they aren’t completely original. You can pinpoint various points in Manchester’s history of music that pop up in abundance throughout the album, fitting in somewhere post-Happy Mondays and the Charlatan’s happier days with a dash of
Review: Peter Murphy – Unshattered
Unshattered is aptly titled in that it never really rattles. … read more
Review: Cyness – Loony Planet/Industreality CD
Cyness doesn’t do anything unexpected for the genre of grindcore, they just do it as solid as I’ve ever heard it. … read more
Review: Massgrav – Napalm Ofver Stureplan CD
Massgrav have a perfect punk-as-fuck vibe that comes natural to them but seems corny as hell coming from all those giant mohawk bands. … read more
Review: Misery – Production Thru Destruction
Misery know how to pour on the gloom and doom better than any heshers in Cannibal Corpse shirts because they’ve spent the last 15 years playing crust with enough metal to make a song interesting. … read more
Review: The Upwelling – Self-Titled
The songs on this 5 track EP are nice, they sore, they have a little rock in them and they have a mood that sometimes crosses Catherine Wheel with Elbow. … read more
Review: The Perishers – Let There Be Morning
The Perishers come sauntering in with a long list of hopefuls who would, if given the chance, knock that bloody crown off of Coldplay’s collective head. … read more
Review: Thee Heavenly Music Association – Shaping the Invisible
Caught somewhere between Curve and Garbage, the combination of Helen Storer and Dave Hillis produce a nice wall of distorted pop. … read more
Review: Great Lakes Myth Society – Self-Titled
These Great Lakes Myth Society are some strange hybrid of an American The Beautiful South, the bouncy happy sound that seems to roll out of Glasgow these days. … read more
