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HOTCHACHA/SUMMER PEOPLE – Do It
reviewed by Josh Diamond

HOTCHACHA/SUMMER PEOPLE – Do It

The first four tracks of Do It are from Cleveland’s HotChaCha, delivering mostly simple but effective garage rock.  This all-female four-piece has more of a [...]

COMPANY – Holy City
reviewed by Patrick Hosken

COMPANY – Holy City

Any singer that rhymes “happiness” with “acquiesce” is cool in my book. That’s exactly what Company vocalist Brian Hannon does on the opening track from [...]

HERZOG – Search
reviewed by Garrett Lyons

HERZOG – Search

Cleveland-based rockers Herzog take the best elements of ’90s rock groups like Pavement and The Tragically Hip and produce a solid mellow rock album in [...]

HOTCHACHA – Fantastic Static
reviewed by Ryan Moore

HOTCHACHA – Fantastic Static

I’ve got to admit, I almost feel guilty writing about HotChaCha without ever having seen them live.  A minimal amount of Googling will yield countless [...]

NEW LOU REEDS – Hit Songs
reviewed by Peter Cauvel

NEW LOU REEDS – Hit Songs

Don’t let the name fool you — the New Lou Reeds don’t really sound like The Velvet Underground. Hit Songs, the band’s latest, is 100 [...]

LIKE BELLS – Palma
reviewed by Andrew Good

LIKE BELLS – Palma

Far too much music is fueled by a need to titillate the listener, to keep the sonic landscape so busy with hooks and surprises that [...]

HOTCHACHA – The World’s Hardest Working Telescope and the Violent Birth of Stars
reviewed by Ryan Brosmer

HOTCHACHA – The World’s Hardest Working Telescope and the Violent Birth of Stars

Think of Joy Division then replace Ian Curtis with a female vocalist and you’ve basically got HotChaCha. Mostly simple guitar riffs over rambling drums…

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 [...]

HOME AND GARDEN – History and Geography
reviewed by Jordan Humphrey

HOME AND GARDEN – History and Geography

If you enjoy tripping on peyote, acid, or mushrooms, and you simply need a soundtrack to your wild ride, Home and Garden might be for [...]