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LJ Sleeze - Dead or Alive
July 5, 2024
Once in a while, a band comes along and marries exceptional playing technique with heady concepts to create works that only a special few can understand and appreciate.
That is not the story LJ Sleeze, a man dedicated to making rock n’ roll dangerously stupid and…
Radio Riot and Yearning for Distortion Reviewed
June 21, 2024
Radio Riot – Go Jimmie
If you’re fully grown, you’re unlikely to become a pro athlete or a certified priest. You should have started earlier on your dreams, I guess. And, to be truthful, even then, it’s likely they wouldn’t have come true. All the kids want…
Like Manowar declaring war on “wimps and poseurs,” so too has Alt77 begun a noble fight against emotionless, sterile, boring music. Our tools in this battle are more humble. We don’t have steel and muscles to rely on, nor the budget to buy ads on the…
frog team and Toboggan Man Reviewed
April 13, 2024
frog team – KAMIKAZE!!
Similar artists: Macseal, A Great Big Pile of Leaves, The Fall of Troy, Their / They’re / There, zebrahead
Genre: Punk, Garage Rock, Alternative Rock
It must be terribly painful being a great artist or growing up to be one. For one…
The Nanners and Det Metra Reviewed
March 22, 2024
The Nanners – I’m the Man
Similar artists: Ariel Pink, Jonathan Richman, Viagra Boys, Ween, Butthole Surfers
Genre: Lo-fi Rock, Indie Pop
When it comes to modern pop music, you can achieve either one of two things – you can draw attention to…
The Slashes and The Lovinas Reviewed
March 11, 2024
The Slashes – Limo Tint
Genre: Post-Punk
I was recently in a bodega in Guatemala, drinking beer and listening to the radio. It was playing South American pop-rock of the 60s. I didn’t know most of the songs. But I recognized them. They’d been taken wholesale…
The Police’s success, in retrospect, seems like an inevitability. Few groups have more things going for them. They could play, they were riding the wave of a trend and they had a charismatic frontman with a great singing voice. And, with highly ranked albums like…
Griffen Handshake and The Bolokos Reviewed
December 6, 2023
Griffen Handshake – Backwards Country
Genre: Punk-rock
The propaganda of empires always has them spoken about as saviours and heroes. They are civilizing agents travelling to people whose culture has existed for thousands of years and taking them out of the Dark…
Radio Chip Pan and The Moonjacks Reviewed
December 4, 2023
Radio Chip Pan – Happy Now
Similar artists: U.K. Subs, Ramones, Cockney Rejects, Cock Sparrer, Stiff Little Fingers
Genre: Punk
If you ever find yourself a little too optimistic about the world, your fellow men, and just how much progress the human race has…