Indie/Alternative Review – Page 20

House of Fire – Review

June 1, 2008

Cleanly sung and chimingly wrought, House of Fire works the territory between shoegaze and Brit-pop before those impulses filled for an annulment.

Mock Orange – Captain Love – Review

June 1, 2008

This isn’t my kinda “quirky indie rock,” but I respect Silverthree and Lobster and producer J. Robbins, and I’ll trust they understand why this band is worthy.

Reggie and the Full Effect – Last Stop: Crappy Town – Review

June 1, 2008

Does the album title mean Reggie and the Full Effect will finally stop putting out albums?

Supergrass – Diamond Hoo Ha – Review

June 1, 2008

Light and breezy without being trite, catchy without being formulaic, mature songwriting skills tempered by the youthful joy of writing great songs.

Teacher’s Pet – Review

June 1, 2008

Classic, mid/late-70s amped up guitar rock and roll with the churnin’, yernin’, burnin’, winsome gal crazy focus firmly grasped in hand.

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Real Emotional Trash – Review

June 1, 2008

Real Emotional Trash takes you back to Pig Lib’s grandiose running times, blazing fretwork, and zany stonerisms.

Story of the Year – The Black Swan – Review

March 1, 2008

Anthemic emo hard rock, the kind you’ll find on the Warped Tour and Taste of Chaos tour, plus on the radio between My Chemical Romance and Linkin Park.

The Press Corps – Urban Truth Rural Myth – Review

March 1, 2008

The label’s site sez “First full-length with members of Mudhoney, The Fluid, Green River, Mother Love Bone escaping the past and embracing the now!”

Tad – Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears – Review

February 1, 2008

Pure hard rock riff action without Soundgarden/Alice In Chains’ metal, Mudhoney’s salt blast garage howl, or Pearl Jam’n’Nirvana’s classic rock balladry.

Destroy All Monsters – Live in Tokyo + Osaka – Review

February 1, 2008

Bleeping honking and farting sine/cosine waves that fell from the art-inflected U.S. pre-punk underground’s soft, white underbelly via rusty knife c-section.