Music
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
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
Street Punk Gone Rock Star: Clit 45 show review
The show, as it has always been with the Lower Class Brats, was awesome. Besides the security guards sniffing around for disorderly skinheads that tried to start a brawl at the last LCB show (supposedly protecting a kid from being beat up by the large bassist of LCB), the concert held on the Sabbath was unusually large, and full of pissed, though content, punk-rockers. … read more
Bloc Party show review
Being labeled “the best” of just about anything is as much a curse as it is a blessing. So when a reckless journalist labeled Bloc Party the best new band in the UK, they might as well have thrown in a first-aid kit for all the bruising that the band had waiting for them. It’s hard to see past all the hyperbole and look for potential, even when you consider yourself a sympathetic fan. … read more
Out of the Coffin: Kim Nekroman Resurrects the Nekromantix
Kim Nekroman, with his homemade coffin bass, stayed at the forefront of the European psychobilly scene for 16 years, until the band relocated to L.A. … read more
Sample Jack: An Interview with Meat Beat Manifesto
It was around 1990 when I was staying up late on Sunday nights to watch 120 Minutes on MTV when Meat Beat Manifesto first grabbed my attention. … read more
