CLICK HERE for Reviews of Albums by GBH! FROM REVIEWS: It’s everything the Ramones excelled at, just sped up faster and without Joey Ramone’s vocal lessons. Some of the songs even feature weirdass drum/guitar rhythms (“Passenger On The Menu”) and excellently head-bashing drum breaks (the title track). With the fuzzed, muzzed distorted guitar tones just …
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Butthole Surfers (album reviews)
CLICK HERE for Reviews of Albums by THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS! FROM REVIEWS: LOCUST ABORTION TECHNICIAN – This is the one. My god, what an unholy racket! The concept this time is frigged-up blues metal. A semi-cover of Black Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf” starts it off rather uneventfully, but then it really gets weird. Little bits of …
Defiance – ‘Out of the Ashes’
Defiance – ‘Out of the Ashes’ Punk Core info@punkcore.com BUY ON AMAZON: Defiance – Out of the Ashes Those crazy hardcore streetpunks, with their crazy fashions, crazy lifestyles, and crazy ideas…but they still express some VERY raw versions of the people’s thoughts (even if they spit them at you), and some of them can rock. …
The Germs (album reviews)
CLICK HERE for Reviews of Albums by THE GERMS! FROM REVIEWS: The Germs were a legendary punk band from Los Angeles … Singer Darby Crash sang like a juveline delinguent with a mouth full of live cockroaches … guitarist Pat Smear played with a trebly wiry energy unlike that of any other SoCal hardcore band …
REM (album reviews)
CLICK HERE for Reviews of Albums by REM! FROM REVIEWS: Chronic Town – Clearly, this young band had three strengths that they could either develop or waste: (1) a great guitarist in Mr. Peter Buck – the king of jangly arpeggiated chords, (2) a singer who, although a bit mic-shy at times, still had the …
Melt-Banana – ‘666 6-inch’
Melt-Banana – 666 6-inch Level Plane info@levelplane.com It’s not every day that one receives a vinyl record in the mail. One probably never unexpectedly receives a 6″ vinyl record in the mail (unless you mail-ordered your 1950s breakfast cereal). Upon lowering the needle, I had no room for expectations. Melt-Banana (Japan) varies their sound a …
Pitch Black – ‘Self Titled’ album
Pitch BlackPitch Black (same)Revelation Recordspublicity@revhq.com BUY ON AMAZON: Pitch Black Hailing from the San Francisco “Bay Area”, Pitch Black is a quartet that includes a keyboard player in addition to a standard punk lineup. No edge is sacrificed for the addition of eerie synth harmony, as the harder tracks may evoke images of leather and …
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