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X – The Unheard Music: Silver Anniversary Edition
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

X – The Unheard Music: Silver Anniversary Edition

Angel City Media 84 min., dir. by WT Morgan, with John Doe, Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom, and DJ Bonebreak After coming to the conclusion that [...]

V/A – The New Hope
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

V/A – The New Hope

The ’80s were a great time for hardcore/punk. People “skanked.” People “thrashed.” Ye olde counter-clockwise circle was a viable form of movement. And there were [...]

KIMONO DRAGGIN’/BOBBIE PERU – S/T split
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

KIMONO DRAGGIN’/BOBBIE PERU – S/T split

What you’ve got here are some beautifully messed-up tunes. The A-side of the vinyl delivers the UK/USA guitar rock of Bobbie Peru. The tune “Mongering The [...]

STREET DOGS – S/T
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

STREET DOGS – S/T

Bagpipes play prevalently in Irish music (moreso in Scottish tuneage but I show my haggis-eatin’ bias). And the drone of the pipes comes through traditionally [...]

DEVIL’S BRIGADE – S/T
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

DEVIL’S BRIGADE – S/T

Guitarist Lars Frederiksen has the Bastards. Guitarist/vocalist Tim Armstrong has his solo stuff going. So it’s only natural that Rancid bassist Matt Freeman has his [...]

GBH – Perfume and Piss
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

GBH – Perfume and Piss

Wait — really? GBH? Really? “Great Big Hair”? Hee hee hee! Oh, my aching’ Jeebus. These Brits have been spitting out street-ish, gutter-drunk, pyramid-studded, Knox-gel-haired [...]

THE VERY FOUNDATION – This Restless Enterprise
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

THE VERY FOUNDATION – This Restless Enterprise

How many indie-pop bands are out there that you wouldn’t know the guys in the band had any hormones what-so-freakin’-ever except that they sport really [...]

CANCER BATS – Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

CANCER BATS – Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones

Fourteen tracks of Canadian metal….hints of sludge and stoner but with breakdowns and understandable bellowing….a small amount of groove in there, too…..they got a fair [...]

THE IZZYS – Keep Your Powder Dry
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

THE IZZYS – Keep Your Powder Dry

So I gets this to review. And I says, “Oh, looky at that! An urban band of young guys who play a country-esque flavor of [...]

ALKALINE TRIO – This Addiction
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

ALKALINE TRIO – This Addiction

Okay…point blank: I have never listened to Alkaline Trio. For serious. Never. They’re just one of them bands that I’ve heard of for a while [...]

KILLED BY THE BULL – Failing Is Fun
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

KILLED BY THE BULL – Failing Is Fun

You know that kid in school? The one that didn’t really bother anyone and kept to himself? Others may have even projected some assumptions of [...]

Interview: Joshua Hatton of Kimono Draggin’
words by Craig Gilbert | photo by Danielle Swirski

Interview: Joshua Hatton of Kimono Draggin’

New Haven, Connecticut — besides being the home of that bastion of higher education Yale University — has a much clearer and more respectable distinction: [...]

MOTT THE HOOPLE – The Whole Story
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

MOTT THE HOOPLE – The Whole Story

Mott The Hoople is one of those bands that people hear the name, know the name, and recognize them for the tune “All The Young [...]

KIMONO DRAGGIN’ – We Are the Dudes
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

KIMONO DRAGGIN’ – We Are the Dudes

To quote the pre-GOP Dennis Miller, “I don’t wanna go off on a rant here, but…..”. We, as a people, have an aural problem. We [...]

KIMONO DRAGGIN’ – Space Orphans
reviewed by Craig Gilbert

KIMONO DRAGGIN’ – Space Orphans

It seems that these three guys with a bend towards pop culture love Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart), surreal compositions, and herky-jerky rock fun, [...]