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Eluvium – Talk Amongst the Trees
Review — December 15, 2005
1:49 a.m. I'm tired. Not tired enough to pass out, but tired enough to browse the internet and listen to music. So I put on Eluvium's Talk Amongst the Trees. Perfect. The first song, "New Animals from the Air," whispers from my speakers. As if the effects of my …
Graf Orlock / Greyskull – Split
Review — December 29, 2005
Unless you're backless, you have a backpack. What do you have in your backpack? I'd imagine there's a collection of paper, pens, and hidden condoms. Then again, maybe you have one of those packs equipped for bicycle riding. Oh, watch out for that bump! Just kidding. You're in the comfort …
The Advantage – Elf Titled
Review — January 12, 2006
Unlike movies, video game sequels eclipse their predecessors. The graphics are better, the gameplay is tightened, and the quantity of visible buttocks is increased. For The Advantage, a band that only plays video game covers, their second full-length has to be better than the first. For all the gamers in …
Neon Blonde – Chandeliers in the Savannah
Review — January 27, 2006
When it comes down to it, negative reviews serve one purpose: to invoke laughter from the reader. After reading reviews, bands aren't going to say, "Hey bandmates! Zed from Scene Point Blank said our new album blows chode. Let's have a band meeting under the waterfall in ten and discuss …
Ruiner – What Could Possibly Go Right...
Review — February 6, 2006
When I hear the term "melodic hardcore" I think of something in between 7 Seconds, Gorilla Biscuits and Lifetime. But there's a new brand of melodic hardcore that strays from those influences while still being melodic and hardcore. Bands like Final Fight and Life Long Tragedy seem to be pushing …
Mass Movement of the Moth / Polar – Split
Review — February 9, 2006
I've heard many people blaming over saturation for many of the problems associated with punk/hardcore: too many bands and too many labels. The overabundance of bands and labels can lead to streets filled with diarrhea. But for every toilet brimming with brown stains, there's a white alligator stalking the sewers. …
86 Mentality – Goin' Nowhere Fast
Review — February 12, 2006
Washington D.C. is known for putting out some of the best punk/hardcore bands of all time. If you were to simplify their history into Minor Threat and Bad Brains that would already be the type of track record that any respected trainer strives for. More recently though, D.C. hasn't been …
Dear Whoever – Sound the Trumpet
Review — March 16, 2006
What does it mean to have over 407,000 plays on Purevolume, over 170,000 plays and over 10,000 friends on Myspace? After listening to Dear Whoever's EP, Sound the Trumpet, I have found the answer to these questions, among others. Such as, what happens when you mix teenage angst with Christian …
Sabertooth Zombie – The Only Good Politician is a Dead Polititian
Review — March 23, 2006
Biting through the flesh of the unwilling. Fingering eye sockets and spilling vast volumes of blood. Some want to smash the system; others want to skull fuck it with barbed wired bats, like Sabertooth Zombie, who just self-released an EP titled, The Only Good Politician is a Dead Politician. We …
Souvenir's Young America / Spylacopa – Split
Review — March 29, 2006
Whether a record is really good or really bad, it can be very inspiring to write about. You can either go on about how "amazing" it is or stoop on how much it "sucks." But in between, there isn't much inspiration and writing about one of these types of records …
La Quiete – Tenpeun '01-'05
Review — April 11, 2006
For whatever reason, the Italian La Quiete is supremely underrated. They've been putting out releases since 2001 and for whatever reason dudes and dudettes alike are sleeping on them. Well, now's your time to wake up, because their newest release, Tenpeun '01-'05 is a discography of sorts that includes their …
Loma Prieta – Our LP is Your EP
Review — April 23, 2006
When it comes to jocking, there's no place better to be jocked than Northern California. This magical place is blowing up like an infirmary the day Ebola hits the streets. Their roster includes bands like Hella and Xiu Xiu, bands like Ceremony and Look Back and Laugh, bands like Funeral …
Witch – Witch
Review — July 11, 2006
If you've seen An Inconvenient Truth, the summer's biggest blockbuster hit, you know shit is hitting the fan. Carbon dioxide is seeping out from every industrial pore and the long-term effects of this are outright frightening. In terms of the short term, Al Gore put a major emphasis on …
Envy – Insomniac Doze
Review — July 23, 2006
"In such an ugly time the real protest is beauty," said some smart dude once. Right now, July 17 of 2006 at 3:36 p.m. I'm living in one of the ugliest times in the history of the homo sapien. Reading any newspaper makes that abundantly clear with who-knows-what on the …
Ambulette – The Lottery
Review — July 27, 2006
When a band breaks up, it can be a good thing. The members who your ears felt a pull for will start new bands in new directions. Such is the case when Denali broke up, a band that started off jaw-dropping-good with Denali and then stagnated into something slightly better …
Sidetracked – Just a Front
Review — August 1, 2006
When Tacoma, Washington mixed early Internal Affairs with a handful of power violence and took out the repetition, Sidetracked was birthed. The Northwest has been known recently for their exceptional melodic hardcore - Sinking Ships, Shook Ones, etc. - but Sidetracked is a quick reminder of what a dose of …
Dangers – Anger
Review — August 24, 2006
It's all been done before. I'm not being jaded; I'm referring to what bands do to be "edgy." Hair in mohawks, boys wearing makeup, and eating your own (or someone else's) shit on stage, none of it is progressive and none of it is offensive. Actually...eating shit would still shake …
Souvenir's Young America – Souvenir's Young America
Review — September 7, 2006
When one's prerogative is to spend half their time chilling out and the other half flying to Jupiter, there is a much-debated question on what to listen to. Souvenir's Young America has brought this dilemma upon themselves and answered it with their first full-length, Souvenir's Young America. The album in …
The Black Angels – Passover
Review — September 28, 2006
In retrospect, the sixties were a time of incredible music. While many aspects of the sound have influenced, been watered down, and filtered to fit the mainstream's acute taste of accessible blankness, some of the most important aspects of this era were quickly passed over. Bands like 13th Floor Elevators, …
