Juliana Hatfield – Only Everything – Review April 1, 1995 She’s cute, her bubblegum voice is cute, she writes catchy cute songs with lots of noisy, fuzzy guitars and loud drums.
Alphabet Soup – Layin’ Low in the Cut – Review March 1, 1995 Alphabet Soup’s hip-swinging bass riffs, sizzling sax, and smoothly rapped vocals pull the listener in hook, line, and sinker.
Dillon Fence – Living Room Scene – Review March 1, 1995 A real mixed bag from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Some songs fail to hold one’s attention, others are irresistible.
Laundry – Black Tongue – Review February 1, 1995 Laundry blends industrial rage with jazz sensibilities for a high-impact sound with dark undertones.
Velo-Deluxe – Superelastic – Review December 1, 1994 Clever, crafted, crystalline and crunchy in milk, these songs speak volumes, one story at a time. The best pop album heard around this office in a long time.
Kill Creek – St. Valentine’s Garage – Review December 1, 1994 A strong disc, crammed full of pissed-off, high energy, sub-rock, garage-on-fire songs.
Jabberjaw – No. 5: Good To The Last Drop – Review October 1, 1994 A compilation of 17 of the most palpitation-inspiring scenesters around (Jawbox, Girls Against Boys, Seaweed, Hole, Beck, etc.) and for a good cause.
Porch – Review October 1, 1994 This hits you like the real thing. The best use of the tired power-grunge format in a long while.
M.I.R.V. – Cosmodrome – Review June 1, 1994 Hmm. A disturbed adolescent just happens to find a guitar in the trash, starts gigging, gets blow jobs, and becomes the post-apocalyptic messiah.
Machines of Loving Grace – Concentration – Review February 1, 1994 The lucky 13 songs of Concentration rage with guitar-heavy metalcore, whisper dark somethings, and suck you in with pseudo-syrupy pop catchiness.