Song: I Lost (My Mind)Artist: Angry SamoansAlbum: STP Not LSD The Angry Samoans are best remembered for the silly manic punk tirades of their first couple of albums, but they released an EP and an LP of cool, fun psych/garage/punk albums in the mid-to-late 80s that often get overlooked. This one comes from 1988’s STP Not LSD which, for all… Read more »
Label: self-released Released: 2008 Ah, pop punk the way it was meant to be played. No sappy, whiny singer fronting a band with all the punch of Muzak. No songs by a band more interested in posing as “sensitive guys” than in expressing discontent. No boring, fake sentiments. No calculations to “make it.” Yeah, Canine 10 is the real deal…. Read more »
Label: SideOneDummy Records Released: August 19, 2008 Finally, someone has married punk with Springsteen. On one hand, it seems like a daunting task and on another like something that should have been done long ago. Springsteen is, after all, one of rock’s biggest artists, racking up bazillions in album sales and selling out arenas the world over. There’s not much… Read more »
Label: Wood & Bone Released: May 27, 2008 I’m not going to write a record review of Albertine. If I were, the review would be short and sharp: generic Christian adult-oriented pop, blah blah blah, whatever. But there’s something great about this album that I can’t dismiss with a handful of snarky words and superficial judgments. So instead of writing… Read more »
Label: Sony BMG Released: May 27, 2008 Live at the Fillmore East was recorded only a little over a month before I saw the Dolls play in Baltimore, so I had a good idea of the potential this release had. Despite my feelings about One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This, I found the show to be… Read more »
(photo courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollface)Moving Mountains is currently touring to support their fantastic Pneuma album. JUN 21 – Yorktown Heights, NY @ First Presbyterian Church,JUN 25 – Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Loft (Chance Theater)JUN 29 – New York, NY @ The Mercury LoungeJUL 11 – Croton-On-Hudson, NY @ The Black CowJUL 18 – Bellows Falls, VT @ Kyle’s HouseJUL 19 –… Read more »
Check out “Filthy Flowers” from Thomas Function’s self-titled debut on Alive Naturalsound Records.
Label: Loose Recs Released: 2008 The Monocles tap into punk circa 1977 or so. Their songs consist of a single driving layer of frenetic energy, each of the three musicians moving in a single and deliberate direction at the same quick pace. Hey, it worked for the Adverts, right? And it works for the Monocles too, 30 plus years later…. Read more »
Label: Crusher Records Released: May 5, 2008 For outsiders, prog rock really seems like a limited genre full of musicians whose musical narcisism takes center stage, relegating things like hooks, emotion and all things rock n roll to the background. That may be true to some extent, but prog has also expanded rock’s palette in many ways. A band like… Read more »
Label: Parks and Records Released: Spring/Summer 2008 About six or seven years ago, I bought a 7″ on whim. It was only a few bucks and on colored vinyl, so I couldn’t go wrong. Still nothing prepared me for what I was about to hear. That 7″ was Rum Diary’s Mileage EP and the title song so rejuvenated my interest… Read more »