: Fellow Workers CD
reviewed by Leigh Marble
You should check out this album because: 1. It contains stories from a people's history of the United States, stories of strikes and mining towns, that you're unlikely to find anywhere else, and 2. It...
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: Mx/Bx13,000 Miles at Light Velocity CD
reviewed by Dewey Mahood
In a recent interview vocalist Yasuko described her band's sound as "machine guns and laser beams fighting each other," but for all of Melt Banana's slice-and-dice freakiness they clearly possess a...
: The Last Pirates of Upsilon CD
reviewed by Dewey Mahood
Prog rock played with hardcore intensity. Sledgehammer metronome rhythms and guitar student scale charts galore. This is the kind of stuff that can easily choke on it's own pretension, but these guys...
: Do the Collapse CD
reviewed by Larry Crane
God, I hate record reviewers, especially the smug, confused bastards that write for little 'zines. They're all gonna (once again) tell us how Bob Pollard and company sold out by going into a fancy...
: Furniture Music for Evening Shuttles
reviewed by Steve Silverstein
Bands from the 1980s which most frequently received the label psych revival included Milwaukee's Plasticland and Los Angeles's the Three O'Clock. They combined wonderful 60s influenced playing and...
: I Want Some CD
reviewed by Dewey Mahood
This album collects the past four years of Makeup singles, beautifully displaying their progression from raunchy garage revivalists to sophisticated soul-psychedlia tune-smiths. We hear the group...
: Ghosts of Dead Aeroplanes
reviewed by Larry Crane
It has always seemed to me that UK "bands" are a lot less afraid to use effects and such in their recordings compared to their US counterparts. Prolapse are a case in point. These mixes are a study in...
: Ask Them EP
reviewed by Matt Mair Lowery
Guided By Voices' prolific Robert Pollard recorded this amazing, pseudonymous EP in a day at Cro-Magnon in Dayton, Ohio. Backed by Dayton's Tasties, Pollard tears through these six cuts old-school GBV...
: The Other Side Is Mud CDEP
reviewed by Matt Mair Lowery
Repp recorded all but one track on this EP at Hush Records' head Chad Crouch's PowerMac home studio. One of the hallmarks of Hush is Crouch's ability to capture warm, acoustic, singer-songwriter...
: In My Living Room CD
reviewed by Adam Selzer
If your record collection is anything like mine, you don't own many compilations, and the few that you have don't get much listening time. In My Living Room has become the exception. It actually has a...
: Drinking From Puddles CD
reviewed by Larry Crane
This is an interesting compilation, featuring live radio broadcasts from a local Portland show (on KBOO) from 1991 to 1998. Eternally grumpy Jay Bozich engineered most, affable host Brandon Lieberman...
: Dose
reviewed by Adam Selzer
A couple of guys from Los Lobos, Tchad Blake, and Mitchell Froom using all the knobs and toys at Sunset Sound Factory. It's the second record from this collaboration and like the first, all the sounds...