Everyone remembers the Violent Femmes. At least anyone who was a fetus prior to about 1975 or so. They were this weirdo band who felt raw and just a little bit...
Mike Krol’s Power Chords is like an ode to what music ought to be. No, seriously. There’s so much garbage out there. So much “experimentation.” So much electronica...
Sheer Mag is a band without high aspirations. Or maybe they have super-high aspirations. And that's what kind of makes them awesome. They are like the garage pu...
Like The Strokes in acid wash jeans, White Reaper tear it up on their latest album, keeping a weird hipster streak alive despite sounding like dudes who are mos...
Man how I loved this album back in 1987 when it came out. It was fresh and fun and, best of all, it rocked. It's been a few years, but listening to it again now...
I had this tape back in junior high and I swear I just bought it because of the cover. I wanted a t-shirt of it too, but settled for a drawer full of Stussy and...
Punk rock, noise rock, whatever this is, I like it. It has that kind of garage rock 50s swing with a thick bassline and bonkers drum fills (with that tambourine...
Jay Reatard may be gone but his spirit lives on in the disturbingly manic Mike Krol. Clocking in at a mere 18 minutes, his 10-track album loads pop gem after po...
At first I felt kind of weird or bad listening to this guy. But by this, the third of his albums I purchased, I got over the fact the guy calls himself Jay Reat...
The cover of this album makes me gag a bit, but from the opening track when Jay's fake Brit cartoonish voice and his $12 amp start up I just want to hug that bl...
