Fifty Tons of Black Terror – Demeter – Review April 1, 1999 You’re immediately slugged by”Voyeur’s Blues”‘s ham-fists of Big Black love propelled by drunk-on-deltablues harp and creepy Aussie psychophile vox.
D Generation – Through the Darkness – Review April 1, 1999 Throw this up against Backyard Babies, Hellacopters, Gluecifer, and Turbonegro, and it comes off closer to a spittle-inflected Poison without hooks.
Zoobombs – Welcome Back – Review January 1, 1999 Nipponese punx drunk on funk. Includes Keith Richards’ riffs and ? and the Mysterians’, as well as farty synth grooves and electronic handclapping.
UFO – Walk on Water – Review January 1, 1999 Walk on Water represents the reunion of the “original” (or, at least, the most famous) line-up of a band that found success in the mid-to-late ’70s.
The Murder City Devils – Empty Bottles Broken Hearts – Review January 1, 1999 MCD fills Empty Bottles with more high-octane punk intoxicants than can be legally sold in the Bible Belt on Sundays.
The Lurkers – Greatest Hit – Review January 1, 1999 The Lurkers, FYI, were first generation UK punkers, messy partiers like the Damned, but musically more deliberate.
Gearwhore – Drive – Review January 1, 1999 It’s harsh enough for industrial fans and dance-oriented enough for club kids and has every right to sound like Chicago industrial.
The Leaving Trains – Favorite Mood Swings – Review January 1, 1999 Unappreciated and unknown, they create usually short, sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant rock’n’roll which veers from driving punk to drunken country blues.
The La Donnas – Rock You All Night Long – Review January 1, 1999 This Denver-based crew walk a mile high in their Converse All-Stars, constructin’ 2:30 punk rock epics.
Electric Frankenstein – Spare Parts – Review January 1, 1999 Spare Parts (the title shoulda clued me in) is Fractured in its entirety with the instrumental “EF Stomp” and three live tracks tacked on.