The Degenerics
Generic Record Collection
Soulrebel (2007)
Our recent Scene Point Blank reader's poll told us at least two things about you, the reader: (1) you want to see less reviews of "generic hardcore", and (2) hardcore is your favorite genre. (If this doesn't apply to you, sorry; you should've chipped in!) So you love hardcore, but also hold high standards for it; maybe you're sick of bands that seem like they sat down before ever playing a note and decided exactly which Judge/Cro-Mags/Infest record they wanted to ape. Good deal - so am I. But here I sit, writing a review of a retrospective discography entitled Generic Record Collection. You may have suspected that there's some amount of irony at work here: the band, after all, is called The Degenerics. Now, I haven't met many Degenerics fans, but the ones that I have met tend to talk about the band the same way that Christians talk about Jesus. And they usually explicitly point out how non-generic the Degenerics are: I've heard their full-length opus Generica praised as a mind-blowing, genre-hopping masterpiece worthy of The Clash or the Bad Brains at the height of their powers. And so the hype built and built, until I finally sat … Read more
New Idea Society
The World is Bright and Lonely
Exotic Fever (2007)
For The World is Bright and Lonely, New Idea Society's Mike Law walks a fine line between poetry and prose. … Read more
The Black Atlantic
Send This Home
Five Point (2007)
Have you ever gone to a movie expecting to see an action movie, but as you watch it, you realize … Read more
New Found Glory
From the Screen to Your Stereo Pt. 2
Drive-Thru (2007)
Last year I interviewed New Found Glory drummer Cyrus Bolooki about the possibility of another cover album in similar fashion … Read more
