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Cheap Tragedies – 2000 and 7: Demo
Review — April 30, 2007
Cheap Tragedies note that they formed shortly after the members ran into each other at this summer's Gorilla Biscuits reunion tour in Cleveland. Given this fact and their extensive collective resume of previous bands, one may be concerned that their current project might serve as nothing more than a nostalgia …
Low – Drums and Guns
Review — May 10, 2007
Low are known as pioneers of the slow-core genre, or what I like to call "intense sleepy-time music." They reached their noisiest peak in the winter of 2005 with The Great Destroyer, an album that boomed with huge percussion and the most distortion they had ever put on guitar. …
The Death of a Party – The Rise and Fall of Scarlet City
Review — May 29, 2007
Bands need to stop trying to sound like Gang of Four. It's a fact that they will never be Gang of Four, and no one ever will be. Of course there will be cover bands, but those songs are Gang of Four songs. Leave the repetition for Clear Channel Radio, …
CocoRosie – The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn
Review — June 3, 2007
A guitarist who died too soon, going by the name of Rust Epique, once said: "Bad art is still art." These words came back to me when listening to CocoRosie, and brought back the memories of when I was a young kid that listened to shitty music, like Crazy Town, …
Misericordiam – Unanimity and the Cessation of Hostility
Review — July 8, 2007
Unanimity and the Cessation of Hostility is six tracks of blistering death metal that lasts a mere fourteen minutes. And while this EP is extremely short, any longer and the band would have be charged for assault and battery. Las Vegas quintet Misericordiam unleashes a full-on attack of technically amazing …
Loser Life – I Have Ghosts and I Have Ghosts
Review — August 14, 2007
Loser Life comes from a place called Bakersfield, California, an area the band has numerously described as "the armpit of California." This is what Loser Life is influenced by, and the band's sound makes their pleasant description seem all too realistic. Loser Life is dirty, grimy, filthy, and fucking pissed …
Rocky Votolato – The Brag and Cuss
Review — August 16, 2007
Rocky Votolato has been a busy man of late. He released last year's Makers to wide acclaim and only just recently re-issued A Brief History with his long time collaborators at Second Nature recordings. This brings us to his latest musical foray. The Brag and Cuss is Votolato's sixth album …
Signs of Hope – First and Foremost
Review — August 20, 2007
It wasn't more than twenty-four hours from the time that I started typing up this review that I was having a conversation with a friend of mine in the basement bathroom of Cheapo Records about the '88 styled hardcore resurgence that happened, for the most part, in Boston in the …
Nekromantix – Life is a Grave and I Dig It!
Review — August 23, 2007
Sometimes a joke can go too far. You know what I mean - like that puny kid at school who you gave a horrible name to so that by the end of year everyone was calling him it and then by the end of the next year he was found …
Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape (Reissue)
Review — September 4, 2007
The Colour and the Shape was the Foo Fighters second full-length release, though it was the first album in which Grohl enlisted a full band to back him in the writing and recording of the album. Grohl gathered an ensemble of musicians to surround him for what would become the …
The Swede – And the Swede
Review — September 5, 2007
God bless Matthew William Kohnle. Kohnle is The Swede. While I'm not sure if the name is a reference to his nationality (or if he is in fact a root vegetable), this project is solely his. With the exception of some bass clarinet by Todd Knapp and some vocals by …
Between the Wars – Death and the Sea
Review — September 17, 2007
Everyone has his or her favorite guitar virtuoso. For some it might be the finger-tapping charmer Eddie Van Halen or maybe they go way back and think of the blues inspired violin bow using wizardry of Jimmy Page. There are even some people out that really know their collective six-string …
Patton Oswalt – Werewolves and Lollipops
Review — September 17, 2007
For the most part, humor is always subjective. Not in this case, however. If Patton Oswalt doesn't make you laugh, then you, my sad little friend are wrong. Dead wrong. So wrong in fact, that I can't even look at you. Go on. Get out of my sight. Go …
Cold War Kids – Robbers and Cowards
Review — September 19, 2007
With a few EP's and a couple of renowned festivals under their belt - Lollapalooza and South by Southwest - Cold War Kids have finally released (in late 2006 actually) their full-length album, Robbers and Cowards. Like a few of their indie predecessors, Cold War Kids borrows from 1970's …
Weedeater – God Luck and Good Speed
Review — September 24, 2007
When a band's name makes reference to sinful pleasures, especially of the herbal nature, it's a sign their sound will be akin to Black Sabbath; the emphasis on slow riffing that sounds even heavier due to down-tuned instruments. Weedeater is a perfect example, taking the suggestive themes of drug abuse …
New Idea Society – The World is Bright and Lonely
Review — September 25, 2007
For The World is Bright and Lonely, New Idea Society's Mike Law walks a fine line between poetry and prose. The lyrical structures are simple and for the most part unchanging, and there is a more simple pattern within it all, almost every line the start of a new …
Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
Review — September 30, 2007
In their twelve or so years as a band, Foo Fighters have had a more than respectable career. This is equally impressive as it would seem that no one ever thought it would last, including frontman/founder Dave Grohl. As the sole member at the time, Grohl recorded all the instruments …
Coalesce – Salt and Passage
Review — October 1, 2007
It scares me to think that some people reading this were still in grade school when Coalesce put out their last album 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening; the idea that a band that I found so aggressively destructive almost a decade ago can release something new and have those …
Ronen Kauffman – New Brunswick, New Jersey, Goodbye: Bands, Dirty Basements, and the Search for Self
Review — October 4, 2007
High fives to Ronen Kauffman for head stomping all over my pretentious attitude about what good literature should be. When I first heard about this book's release I was glad to see a paperback devoted to the subject matter but I was a little annoyed that yet another memoir was …
