Slump – Review June 1, 1995 Alright, let’s rock! Catchy choruses, and good grooves, I hope I can catch them live with a six pack.
Smoking Popes – Born to Quit – Review June 1, 1995 They have elements of Ramones and ’50s-style rock mixed amongst the pop love songs. Very Morrissey vocals on top of simple catchy pop rock.
Silverchair – Frogstone – Records June 1, 1995 If I didn’t know Silverchair came from Australia in 1995, I would swear they were Seattle circa 1990. Sounds like Pearl Chains Alice Jam.
Rosemary Caine – Under the Big Top – Review June 1, 1995 Alternative pop with emotion and bite. I actually didn’t mind listening to this one.
Q-South – Review June 1, 1995 One of those bands that sit on fences. Alternative-acoustic-pop with a Latin flavor. Like nachos with Velveeta and ground beef.
Pond – The Practice of Joy Before Death – Review June 1, 1995 A deeply personal musical work which deserves to outlive its genre of fairly mainline alterna-rock.
Pamela Davis – Play To Win – Review June 1, 1995 Play so that I’ll have to listen to this trite pop nonsense instead of reviewing struggling new bands?
Overwhelming Colorfast – Sourdough – Review June 1, 1995 Overwhelming Colorfast is captured here as close to live-in-your-living-room as you can get. Power pop at it’s finest.
Low – Long Division – Review June 1, 1995 Produced by Kramer, Long Division sports a heavy-lidded brand of non-rock that yawns around the same realm as The Red House Painters and Galaxie 500.
Lori Lieberman – A Thousand Dreams – Review June 1, 1995 14 3-5 Minute Sub-Tori Amos “Watch My Criminally Misunderstood Heart Bleed All Over the Piano While I Whine Along In A Most Laughable Fashion” Nightmares.