Spazboy – Twilight Area – Review January 1, 1999 Add another name to the long list of pleasantly punky bands who write songs about what losers they are and how everyone’s a jerk.
Crime Family – Rock Cartel – Review January 1, 1999 CF’s latest, Rock Cartel, is an economy-sized bucket of garage, punk, grunge, and distortion.
SNFU – Let’s Get It Right the First Time – Review January 1, 1999 They pepper Let’s Get It Right the First Time with chestnuts like “I Forget,” “Bobbit,” and “Eric’s Had a Bad Day.”
Cranium – Speed Metal Slaughter – Review January 1, 1999 Guitars scale madly, whammy bars shudder, and umPA-umPA drumming ensues, meanwhile vocalist Chainsaw Demon cackles wickedly and emits Baloffian yelps.
Slaughter – Eternal Live – Review January 1, 1999 While every other falsetto-screaming cock rockin’ quintet had to get haircuts and start dressing like guys for a change, Slaughter still attracts an audience.
Codex – Review January 1, 1999 Laid back, almost ambient, like he’s puffing on Banco De Gaia’s last joint. Post-club for certain.
Skinny Puppy – ReMix Dys Temper – Review January 1, 1999 In order to keep the canine catalogue alive, Nettwerk has re-opened the dog pound’s archives and allowed their classics to be remixed.
CIV – Thirteen Day Getaway – Review January 1, 1999 Somewhere in its fur, clutched in its curled paw, is a marker, still poised to deface an image of youth oppression… can you see it?
Blonde Redhead – The Expression of the Inexpressible – Review January 1, 1999 I hope to God that these conceptual purty-anti-melodic noodler nitwits aren’t as fucking earnest as they come off.
Block – Timing Is Everything – Review January 1, 1999 Block smartly and sharply provides a soundtrack to the great tack that is America in the 1990s.