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THE MOST POWERFUL TELESCOPE IN THE UNIVERSE – The Moonlight’s Fair Tonight
reviewed by Garrett Lyons

THE MOST POWERFUL TELESCOPE IN THE UNIVERSE – The Moonlight’s Fair Tonight

The Moonlight’s Fair Tonight is just a beautiful record. The Most Powerful Telescope in the Universe blend the atmospheric feel of Death From Above with [...]

DOOMRIDERS – Darkness Come Alive
reviewed by Matt Edmund

DOOMRIDERS – Darkness Come Alive

Mixing a hard and fast rock and roll sound along with splashes here and there of hardcore attitude is the latest album from Boston’s Doomriders, [...]

RISE AND FALL – Our Circle is Vicious
reviewed by Matt Edmund

RISE AND FALL – Our Circle is Vicious

Who would have thought that it would take a hardcore band from Belgium to present hardcore vocals I could actually understand? Reviewing this kind of [...]

THE VULTURES – Chingus
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

THE VULTURES – Chingus

Oh man. Fuck. I’m sorry. This record is pure gold like King Tut’s shit. If urban asphalt had waves and curls in it, this would [...]

SAKES ALIVE! – Act II
reviewed by Garrett Lyons

SAKES ALIVE! – Act II

Take the worst parts of None More Black and throw in the tinny sounds of the standard audio system in a Dodge Omni and you [...]

CH3 – To Whom It May Concern: The 1981 Demos
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

CH3 – To Whom It May Concern: The 1981 Demos

History first: A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (California, circa 1980) there was this cover band that played at parties [...]

FRANK SCHWEIKHARDT – Life But No More
reviewed by Garrett Lyons

FRANK SCHWEIKHARDT – Life But No More

Midwestern folk singer Frank Schweikhardt’s album Life But No More is simply an album that exists. It adds nothing to the genre. Each and every [...]

SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE – Diary/LP2
reviewed by Jackson Ellis

SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE – Diary/LP2

You have to hand it to Sub Pop — they really went all out to make the reissues of the first two Sunny Day Real [...]

THE CHAMBERMAIDS – Down In the Berries
words by Matthew Wright

THE CHAMBERMAIDS – Down In the Berries

Listening to The Chambermaids’ album Down In the Berries is a strange experience for anyone who was a kid when the Athens sound had yet [...]

THAO WITH THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN – Know Better Learn Faster
reviewed by Ryan Brosmer

THAO WITH THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN – Know Better Learn Faster

Thao Nguyen’s energy has always been volatile, under pressure, and one open flame away from explosive. Well, it seems like somebody lit a match and [...]

MYSTERY OF TWO – S/T
reviewed by Garrett Lyons

MYSTERY OF TWO – S/T

Mystery of Two are a band out of Cleveland that sound like a cross between the Young Scotland sound of Josef K and the same [...]

THE UNIT BREED – Always Distance the Lonely
reviewed by Garrett Lyons

THE UNIT BREED – Always Distance the Lonely

Portland-based trio The Unit Breed do the impossible: they blend the sounds of a tone-deaf Johnny Cash remarkably well with a nasally Weird Al style [...]

THE EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING – S/T
reviewed by Garrett Lyons

THE EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING – S/T

Aussie garage rockers The Eddy Current Suppression Ring take the best of the sound of groups like The Stooges and The Pagans, add in the [...]

NATHEN MAXWELL AND THE ORIGINAL BUNNY GANG – White Rabbit
reviewed by Christopher Connal

NATHEN MAXWELL AND THE ORIGINAL BUNNY GANG – White Rabbit

To Flogging Molly fans, Nathen Maxwell is the bass player who lends his voice to “Queen Anne’s Revenge,” one of the louder and faster songs [...]

KEEGAN DEWITT – Islands
reviewed by Nate Griffin

KEEGAN DEWITT – Islands

Upon the first pass through Keegan DeWitt’s latest offering, Islands, I began setting various tracks to my unfinished soliloquy-ridden screenplay about an off-beat writer trying [...]