Laurels – 90-95 – Review

February 1, 1996

Laurels play a peculiar brand of loud art-rock, so dark and powerful that it’s hardly a surprise that it’s been apportioned out mostly in the small doses.

The Stuffings – Macro Metal – Review

February 1, 1996

Macro Metal may be a bunch of really stoned guys in a living room with a four track and too many effect pedals, just fucking around and giggling. But so what?

The Marshes – Review

February 1, 1996

Steven Wardlaw’s strafe-stringin’ is a virtual encyclopedia of fifteen years of punks from ’81-vintage L.A. blooze to the odd Hüsker Dü electrical storm.

The Amps – Pacer – Review

February 1, 1996

A side project for Breeders Kim Deal and Jim MacPherson, The Amps are a charming blend of Deal’s sweet-girl vocals on top of drunken garage band vigor.

Happy The Clown – Larvae – Review

February 1, 1996

This is not happy music. It’s fuzzy bass, pseudo-psychedelic distortion and slow industrial sludge. Rough, strange and beautiful, but monotonous.

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