by Gail Pop | 2000 | Music Reviews - A
Ann Beretta – To All Our Fallen Heroes – CD (Lookout Records) “To All Our Fallen Heroes” is pure power driven rock music that will annihilate most punk music with it razor sharp guitars, snappy back beats, and punchy vocals. Ann Beretta makes...
by Grog Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - B
Blanks 77 – C.B.H. – CD (Radical Records) These guys have been around for a while and have made a name of playing 77 style punk rock. It’s just what you’d expect snotty, beer drenched punk rock. Yes, this is also the band that was searching for two...
by Mite Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - C
Clone – Not Feeling Like Yourself Today? – CD (Evil Eye Records) This bands is noisy, freaky and cheesy. Their sound is experimental and psychedelic spaghetti western-space age music. If I could use two words to describe this it would be funky monkey. -...
by Superchunk Steve | 2000 | Music Reviews - E
Ester – Default State – CD (Thirsty Ear Records) If you’re into Soundgarden, then you’re into Ester. If you’re still mourning that loss, then go out right now and buy an Ester. I’m not even into this stuff, but these guys have a very good sense of the...
by Superchunk Steve | 2000 | Music Reviews - G
Guided By Voices – “Do The Collapse” – CD (TVT Records) There’s not one not-great song on this whole record. It’s their best record since “Bee Thousand”. Everything is strong on it. They shake their ‘Lo-fi hero’ status and let the songs speak for...
by Gail Pop | 2000 | Music Reviews - J
John Stuart Mill – Forget Everything – CD (See Thru Broadcasting) I can’t remember anything expect I feel like I listened to Beck on downers in a canteen and I keep repeating the line from one of the songs, “Cows go moo. Owl goes who. Someone’s got to...
by Mite Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - M
Meatloaf – VH1 Storytellers – CD (Beyond / BMG) Okay, either you like Meatloaf’s music or you hate it, but none-the-less he is a part of rock-n-roll history. His album Bat Out of Hell is one of the top-selling albums of all time. This release is a...
by Fibi Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - N
Nova – Rise – CD (Galaxy 10 Records) Nova owes a great debt to the trip rock of bands such as Pavement. While it’s not full-fledged hippie rock, it’s not straight-ahead rock either. There are a number of flights of fancy in guitar solos and the...
by Johnny Death | 2000 | Music Reviews - S
Satyricon – Rebel Extravaganza – CD (Nuclear Blast Records) The latest offering from those evil black metal zombies , Satyricon. The face paint these guys wear makes them look as if they were murdered hundreds of years ago. Basically the same formula as...
by Fibi Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - S
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros – Rock Art and the X-Ray Style – CD (Hellcat Records) Ex-Clash frontman Joe Strummer mixes up the musical pot on this album with the Mescaleros, who used to be a Clash cover band. From dub to funk, swing to ska, rockabilly...
by Johnny Death | 2000 | Music Reviews - U
Unruh – Setting Fire to Sinking Ships – CD (Pessimiser Records) Mellow acoustic and piano music for about 50 seconds that quickly turns into all-out insanity. Speeding guitars, guttural growls and screams from hell. Speed metal/ Black metal/ Death metal...
by Mite Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - V/A
V/A – The East Coast of Oi! – CD (Radical Records) When I hear Oi!, I always think about the story of the skinhead who got the word “Oi!” tattooed on his forehead. The tattoo bleed making the “Oi!” turn into “Oil”. So I...
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