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I’m a big fan of Howard S. Rowland. Because of that, I plan to buy a Jaguar guitar. No, not the Fender. Can’t quite afford that. But, I’ll likely be getting a copy and pretend I’m the former Birthday Party guitarist to the chagrin of my bandmates.

Irish teenager kahal makes music for the ages. It’s Indie with Bedroom Pop production values. It sounds like it could belong splattered across the closing credits of a modern tragicomedy. kahal may be young, but he’s heard plenty of music and made a nice…

At the heart of it, all of pop & rock is a novelty act. And, while those words may bring to mind dance renditions of the Macarena, being a novelty act is nothing bad. In fact, being able to surprise an audience is what hits are built upon. The novelty about this tune…

New York City remains the rock n roll Mecca as far as most teens, starting their own bands, are concerned. The Velvet Underground had the New York Dolls. The Strokes had the Velvet Underground. And, everyone else in the past 20 years has sounded like the Strokes.

Ok. The 1976 NYC punk bands had an incredible charm about them while playing random pieces of music, with great enthusiasm and little flair in terms of actual technique. It’s a wonderful sound, rarely counterfeited. Wearebaby sounds like that to me. The vocals are…

There’s a real difficulty in finding a title that’s unique or captures the imagination. A quick search on godaddy, the miserable repository of website titles, will reveal that most good titles are already taken. Well, this is not the case with the single in…

I got a small bio written by Troigo himself. It said simply that he grew up learning latin music with his brothers, but that now he makes pop hits. Haha. Threaten me with a good time? The trouble is that Troigo has indeed written something that could well be a summer hit…

Sea Girls are the indie rockers that if you invite over to your house, end up baking you cookies. They make festival-friendly music. They have facial expressions that suggest they’re carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders. They rock lightly. But, beyond…

Here’s a band who wouldn’t take it anymore… Like a headbanging Travis Bickle, Swiss metalheads Comaniac look at the world around them with ever-growing disgust. According to their manifesto, they plan to work against the insipid Thrash Metal being created…