The Five Deadly Venoms rock out heavily and bruise your ears with their angular melodies, but sometimes they dip in and out of the “soft-to-loud” formula.
Camber utilizes dissonant melodies and angular guitars to create a semi-DC sound for themselves, a move that usually puts a stake right through the emo style.
Boston pop doesn’t get much sweeter than Boy Wonder. This five-song, 15 minute, self-produced EP captures the sugary magic after the dissolve of CherryDisc.
Joined on bass by Screaming Trees veteran, Van Conner, Pickerel and TDF have put together 12 nocturnal sonatas not far afield from the Trees crazed psychedelia.
Blues purists may dismiss this slab o’ anarchic slide guitar’n’bass drum voodoo as mere hipster shuck’n’jive gimmickry. It’s sure not the “same old blues crap.”
Surprisingly, the total amount of lyrical lecture consisting of paraphrasings of Angry Brigade/King Mob sloganeering doesn’t outweigh the musical punch.
And while the layered girl vocals teeter close to B-52’s territory, the pounding drums and distorted roar of lead bass remind you this is rock-yer-ass rock.