Halo Friendlies – Get Real – Review

January 3, 2003

Another chick punkpop band that bucks most of the pitfalls. Sure, they’re cute, sure, they rock pretty well, sure they write pretty lil’ peppy pop gems.

Agalloch – The Mantle – Review

January 3, 2003

There’s a real chilly, sparse beauty here. Mostly acoustic, with very few vocals (which is good: the vocals are echo-drenched blah when they surface).

Every Dog Will Have Its Day – Review

January 3, 2003

If you want to be the new Lookout! (now that Lookout! wants to be the new Sub Pop, and who knows what Sub Pop is up to these days), take it all the way.

ADZ – American Steel – Review

January 3, 2003

Some pop-punk influence, but thankfully beefed up in every facet to take it out of that genre. The lyrics are funny and poignant and not sung like a sissy.

Chumbawamba – Readymades – Review

January 3, 2003

Very catchy and playable. Still, it lacks the teeth-gnashing anger of Tubthumper, with its backwards Hail Mary and lines like “kick your face in so politely.”

Billy – Volume One – Review

January 3, 2003

Rockabilly is a hipster costume party emulation of rock and roll’s first unsteady steps out of the primordial soup until Marty McFly invented the guitar solo.

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