Embodyment – Hold Your Breath – Review March 8, 2002 Imagine A Perfect Circle writing songs for Texas Is The Reason and Quicksand and you’ve got Hold Your Breath.
Wolfie – Tall Dark Hill – Review March 8, 2002 Combining the chiming pop of Sloan, warm fuzzy guitars, and a Midwestern-college-rock air of sophistication, Wolfie rock out boy/girl garage-power-pop songs.
Homo Iratus – Human Consumes Human – Review March 8, 2002 Broken Hope vocals over a death metal Stompbox. Yes, you heard right: Deathcore stripped to its bare minimum.
Crashpalace – Review March 8, 2002 Filter/God Lives Underwater in the production, something fuzzy and vaguely futuristic, and that may be what saves CrashPalace.
Fu Manchu – California Crossing – Review March 8, 2002 Fu Manchu has settled into their sound and concentrated on writing good songs. This has led to complaints of “everything sounds the same.”
Tomahawk – Review March 8, 2002 A beautifully-sculpted hard rock record rooted in the expansive non-arena ’70s/early-’80s rock, encompassing hard “new wave” era gunch.
Finntroll – Jaktens Tid – Review March 8, 2002 With the Lord of the Rings the new rage, it probably only makes sense that this umpa-umpa-woo-woo! silliness strikes now.
Tilt – Been Where? Did What? – Review March 8, 2002 A collection of early demos, out-takes, and rarities, has finally put to rest the question of if “Weave and Unravel” was a brilliant fluke.
Therapy? – Shameless – Review March 1, 2002 These guys started as an analogy to middle-American noise rock a decade ago and have since moved to the center of the hard rock road.
The Orange Alabaster Mushroom – Space and Time: A Compendium Of – Review March 1, 2002 For those of you obsessed with Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd and the Nuggets boxes on Rhino, boy have I got something for you.