DJ FatKid

January 24, 2002

Rockin’ the Clichés

By DJ FatKid

Vue rhythm guitarist Jonah Buffa's least favorite review was the one that labeled his band "retro."

January 24, 2002

Beehive & the Barracudas | Plastic Soul with The White Apes | Swami

By DJ FatKid

I've just gotten trashed with a bunch of San Diego punk rock all-stars.

January 24, 2002

Top Ten Instances of the Arts Proving Artistic and Entertainment Proving Entertaining in 2001

By DJ FatKid

Top Ten Instances of the Arts Proving Artistic and Entertainment Proving Entertaining in 2001 By DJ Fatkid, the naked Artsweek Staff Writer 1) Mariah Carey’s Nervous Breakdown “You mean the hot pants, sir?&#8...

January 17, 2002

Atombombpocketknife | God Save the ABPK | Southern

By DJ FatKid

Being a fan of Atombombpocketknife guitarist Justin Sinkovich's old ensemble Thumbnail, I was pretty amped to get my grubby hams on this release.

January 10, 2002

Digging Up the Dirt

By DJ FatKid

Your hometown can leap out and grab you at the oddest of times. In this case, Isla Vista leapt out of the carpet backstage at the El Rey during the penultimate Murder City Devils' Los Angeles gig.

January 10, 2002

Champagne Kiss | Dancing in the Pockets of Thieves | Troubleman Unlimited

By DJ FatKid

Champagne Kiss is the latest offering from Michelle Maskovich and Russell White, the motivating forces behind Moog-happy bands The Shortwave Channel and Camera Obscura.

November 1, 2001

One for the Road

By DJ FatKid

"I'm tired of Budweiser," said Spencer Moody. "I drank four and a half years of Budweiser on tour, so I'm drinking Heineken on this one."

October 11, 2001

The Pattern | Immediately | Lookout!

By DJ FatKid

For every moment the band sounds like AC/DC, there's another where it sounds like the Stooges and yet another where it sounds like Pussy Galore.

September 27, 2001

The Faint | Danse Macabre | Saddle Creek

By DJ FatKid

The Faint's use of analog synthesizers and live instrumentation is widely touted, but all I hear is Depeche Mode.

May 31, 2001

The Icarus Line | Mono | Crank!

By DJ FatKid

Where's Axl? If you've caught some shows on the Pickle Patch/Biko co-op show circuit, you probably know the answer.

May 24, 2001

Useless I.D. | Bad Story, Happy Ending | Kung Fu

By DJ FatKid

It is rare that a dime-a-dozen review jobber for a somewhat progressive news rag gets to indulge in rampant, drooling nationalistic condescension.

May 17, 2001

The Rapture | Out of the Races and On To the Tracks | Sub Pop

By DJ FatKid

Now that the founder of Up Records is dead, and Matador Records' taste is nearly as moribund, Sub Pop is left as one of the last high-profile indie rock labels in the biz.

May 10, 2001

Tsunami Bomb | The Invasion From Within | Tomato Head

By DJ FatKid

Brief digression: AFI sweatshirts emblazoned with the East Bay Hardcore (EBHC) logo seem omnipresent in the city of Santa Barbara, which is odd because, well, there're no bays to speak of on the South Coast.

May 3, 2001

Burning Airlines | Identikit | De Soto

By DJ FatKid

Postmodernism is hardly unknown to independent rock. Nearly every crap conceptual Polyvinyl band can quote Baudrillard or Foucault.

April 26, 2001

Bats and Mice | s/t | Lovitt

By DJ FatKid

I feel dirty, sullied, debased, degraded and all around icky. But let me start at the beginning.

April 12, 2001

Rocket From the Crypt | Group Sounds | Vagrant

By DJ FatKid

Six men. Fifteen minutes of fame. A vast multitude of different labels. One esoteric ’70s proto-punk reference. Count it down, baby, and you get Rocket From the Crypt, formerly the next big punk band, currently one...