Time Travel Ban – Play
Against all odds and the recommendation of A&R men everywhere, grunge became the flavor of the 1990s. It was the most successful style to emerge around the beginning of that decade. Soon, MTV and everyone looking to slice a pie of the…
Grids & Dots – City Skies
Heartbreak music will always have an audience, yet it can only entertain one broken heart at a time. Just like a tool that is only designed to be used in one particular season, these kinds of songs struggle to maintain an audience when…
The Palava – He Fell At The First Hurdle
The UK music press had been waiting for the new Stone Roses so long that they nearly missed Oasis. They then focused on finding a worthy successor to their monobrowed Mancunians and could have missed out on the Arctic…
True blue: Brad and Tre and MBG reviewed
March 2, 2021
MBG – This Time
The trick with great three-minute singles, according to Ray Davies, the master of the 3 minute single, is to get a memorable line in right away, in the same manner that you would try to get the attention of a potential romantic…
Alt-storytelling: Padre and BANTAMWEIGHT reviewed
March 1, 2021
BANTAMWEIGHT – Fall Away
Wherever you are living, chances are that you are decrying the state of education in your country. With few exceptions, it is true that governments invest much less in teaching the children than in, potentially, bombing other people’s…
Dutch Tulips – Sick Middle
It’s amazing how many opportunities life presents to the ones that can really talk a good game. Sure, you could be a salesman, but you might be thinking too small. The jobs of politician, lawyer, criminal, rockstar, all rackets in…
The Stolen Moans – TREES
Playing rock n’ roll should give artists a free-pass towards saying the kinds of things that other art forms might consider vulgar or exaggerated. Yet, for the most part, rock has been pretty willing to please, serving up the latest…
Palm trees in the breeze: Poor Frisco and Hernia release new singles
February 26, 2021
Hernia – Dead Inside
“Damn it, that sounds like the Replacements!” That is the basis on which I introduce most new music to my life. You see, even as someone who wasn’t there when the Mats began their musical careers and proceeded to gleefully ruin…
Too much of a good time: Spirit Award & Sensible Antenna reviewed
February 18, 2021
Sensible Antenna – Ruster
Every time a musical artist gets significant success, the record hounds try to sniff something vaguely similar to sign and mold them into an image resembling that of their golden goose. Strangely, the more the imitators pile up, the more…