January 07 Issue
Features
- Column:
- 2007: Time to Bring In The New Guns! Nick gives the lowdown on three bands to watch.
- Concert Review:
- MOSH Santa Brings the Holiday Cheer. Haste the Day, Calico System and Heavy Heavy Low Low rock the house in a holiday hardcore showdown.
- #1 Hits From Another Planet:
- January Nick finds the newest pop from across the pond.
- Well, Now That You Asked:
- How do you save the scene? You forsake the money for the music.
- Editorial:
- Work. It's not appreciated how much work independent music is.
Featured Review
Pineross – S/t
Pineross: the name of Kevin Larkin’s neo-Western folk band;
the title of the first full-length CD of said band; the piecemeal, mythical
soundtrack for our Western heritage; the musical embodiment of a dead
or dying ghost that is the Great American West. This eleven-song CD shades
in the gaps between The West’s endless highways, stumbles through
tumbleweed-ridden expanses, encounters and outruns bandits, waxes quixotic,
drinks itself to oblivion, turns country legend, and rides off into the
sunset, six-gun shining at Kevin Larkin’s side.
New Reviews
Underride – Insanity
Land
Headbanging arena rock that pushes the pansies to the side.
Fairmont – Wait and
Hope
Guitar-based indie-rock that excels in every area possible.
Triclops – Cafeteria
Brutalia
Brutal, grating music that amazes with its audacity.
After the Sirens –
What I Have to Give, Let it Be Enough
Post-hardcore with passionate delivery and lyrics to match.
Johnny Boy – S/t
Joyous pop whose avant-garde leanings ensure that the songs are entirely unique.
The iOs – In Sunday Songs
Mid-nineties power-pop revived and resuscitated for maximum cheeriness.
Linda Sundblad –
Oh My God!
The female pop album of the year, Linda Sundblad is what Gwen Stefani should
have been.
80th Disorder - Transform
EP
A dance-ready EP that builds on its new wave fathers instead of ripping them
off.
Don’t Die Cindy
– Most Imperfect Skies
A strange amalgamation of classic rock, indie rock, punk rock, and post-hardcore
that works.
O Pioneers!!! – Black
Mambas
Frantic, passionate punk rock with high ideals and simple execution.
Knife the Symphony
– Please Knife the Symphony
Intense, artsy punk rock with lots of yelling makes an impression.
Tuesday’s Debut
– Raise Your Glass: We’re Armed and Jealous
More than your average pop/rock group, a lot of promising songwriting helps
out this band’s debut.
Joe McCready – Simple
Songs
Warm, comfortable, pleasant songs that fall between Jason Mraz and Jack Johnson.
W. Robert Peek –
Adventures in Science Fiction
An album of dedicated science fiction storytelling.
Denelian – False:Positive
The 80’s never left for Denelian, and it’s time to hit the dance
floor like it’s 1984.
Veto – There’s a Beat
in All Machines
An interesting debut that establishes Veto’s desire to be a non-dance
electronic band.