Halfcocked
The Last Star (Dreamworks )
by Scott Hefflon
Remember Vixen? No? Well, ya won’t remember these girls in a few years either, so don’t waste your brain cells. Halfcocked use AC/DC to explain why they write stripped-down, predictable, (cliché-)pounding rock songs that leave absolutely no impression whatsoever. But they look pretty cool and they wear all the latest glammy/trashy fashion, so, like Kittie, ya kinda deal with the bottom-scraping music to check ’em out. The band’s from Boston, as is Executive Producer of Powerman 5000 (ahem) “Spider One.” I’ve made fun of those silly dopes for years, and I’m far from done. In his infinite wisdom, “Spider One” saw a buck to make, so he’d have a back-up plan when people catch on that his band blows, er, ah, he wanted to give back to the scene or something fake and tiresome… Maybe he simply figured Halfcocked deserved to be heard outside of Boston’s city limits, seeing as that’s their former label Curve of the Earth’s reach (he should know, PM5K started on CotE), and he’s right.
(www.halfcocked.com)