Review: The Used

The Used "Self-Titled" (Warner Brothers) So yeah, these guys have a music video and songs on the radio, but I've never heard (of) them. What has this CD taught me? Take everything you can learn from bands...

Review: The Young and the Useless

The Young and the Useless "Self-Titled" (Thorp Records) I went down to LA last weekend.  I was hoping I'd run into Kelli Skye, but I'm not even sure if she lives in LA, so I had to admit my chances of...

Review: The Agenda!

The Agenda! "Start the Panic" (Kindercore) Like The Hives?  How about The Strokes?  Well, there's another mod-core band out there with a singer that sounds more distorted than Charlie Brown's parents...

Review: The Arrivals

The Arrivals "Exsenator Orange" (Thick Records) Whenever I hear a punk record I have to admit that I prepare myself mentally for some redundant replicated sounding shit.  It's always "Fuck this!" and...

Review: The Beautiful Mistake

The Beautiful Mistake "Light A Match, For I Deserve to Burn" (The Militia Group) Someone was so behind this release, and wanted us to check it out in advance so they burned us a CDR.  The first one...

Review: The Blood Brothers

The Blood Brothers "March on Electric Children" (Three One G) Classically different.  The Blood Brothers blend so many ingredients into this masterpiece, "March on Electric Children," that you could...

Review: The Blow

The Blow "“Bonus Album”" (Secretly Canadian) As my wife so eloquently put it “The Blow, blows!”  Frankly, I have to agree with her because I just don’t know where the hell this stuff fits into the...

Review: The Boils

The Boils "The Ripping Waters EP" (Thorp Records) Karl Marx would have liked The Boils. Their anthems of rising up against the bourgeoisie will have every kid in plaid pants and spiked bracelets singing...

Review: The Crush

The Crush "Here is Where I Cross My Fingers" (Adeline Records) Adeline has got a serious talent for scouting new bands.  Their latest offering is a four piece emo-punk outfit from Minneapolis that simply...

Review: The Forms

The Forms "“Icarus”" (Threespheres) The music on “Icarus” is about as unreserved and beautiful as the scenic pictures in the album sleeve and the enhanced portion of the disc.  Arrangements on this...