Burning Airlines | Identikit | De Soto

May 3, 2001 by

Postmodernism is hardly unknown to independent rock. Nearly every crap conceptual Polyvinyl band can quote Baudrillard or Foucault.
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Bats and Mice | s/t | Lovitt

April 26, 2001 by

I feel dirty, sullied, debased, degraded and all around icky. But let me start at the beginning.
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Rocket From the Crypt | Group Sounds | Vagrant

April 12, 2001 by

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...
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The Causey Way | Causey vs. Everything | Alternative Tentacles

March 1, 2001 by

Are reviewers somehow honor bound to play into bands’ gimmicks? It seems sycophantic to do so, which means I guess I’ll be a stick in the mud (shtick in the mud?) and declare straight off ...
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Album Review: The Hex | No Car | Troubleman Unlimited

February 21, 2001 by

Ask John Q. Fourtrack, and he’ll say he’s an experimenter and an artist. The Hex, however, says nothing and then rips your fucking ears off. The liner notes are terse to the point of being...
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Music Review: Engine Down | To Bury Within the Sound | Lovitt

February 15, 2001 by

As of last week, I have four screws and two wires in my right cheek, and perhaps this explains my mild disappointment with this album. I have the metal in me, but this album does not have The Metal in...
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Enemymine | The Ice in Me | Up

February 8, 2001 by

Before I describe the soul-shredding noise monster that is Enemymine, let me just say that the group once accidentally left its drummer in a roadside cafe while on tour. That’s fucking rad. Evol...
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