Many of the songs are heavy, but they’re heavy in a King’s X way, not heavy in a “we base our songs off the parts of Pantera songs we can actually play” way.
Part greaser rock, part melodic punk. There’s thoughtful, hard-livin’ lyrics, but there’s also countrified punk, and ’50-style whoa-whoa melody and harmony.
The Planet Smashers are a five piece ska band. They’ve been together for nine years, and have garnered a lot of cred in their five albums for Stomp Records…
Mix bouncy acoustic guitar with sporadic piano bursts and folksy, yet poppy, falsetto vocals and you get a catchy album you can’t help but tap your feet to.
Released in ’97, Law of Inertia decided to remaster and re-release it ’cause they didn’t think it got the recognition it deserved. Maybe there was a reason…
There are still hints of sarcasm (the title track), but the happy-go-lucky nature of Dear Catastrophe Waitress is so thick that you hardly notice anything else.
While most “indie” bands are paying homage to the lo-fi rock of the ’70s and early ’80s, Pink Grease is doing them all one better and delving back to the 1950s.
RCC is the graveyard party of some good Boston bands: 8-Ball Shifter singer EEE Adams, Cherry 2000 bassist Poundy, and Gardner Key from The Syphlloids.
Not much info on this band, but not really much needed. Boston hard rock, with members from such local heavyweights as Honkeyball, Lazlo Bane, and Claymore.
Les is passionate, a multi-instrumentalist. But he’s not a wimpy singer/songwriter you want to kick the shit out of, for fear he’d write a song about it.
The Format specialize in ’80s acoustic-y light pop-rock, and songs often include sleigh bells, a banjo, a mellotron, and a wurly (what the hell is a wurly?).
The production is smooth, the rough-fuzzed guitars are sexy. The lyrics are a work in progress. Perhaps tweaking the prescription could set things right.
Ten years strong, the Converge machine carries on, and here we have an album full of songs – some sounding better than the originals -for us to digest.
A four-song EP from this novel New York metal band. Melodic metal with violin and male/female singers has been done before, but it perks the ears every time.