Swell Whenever You're Ready Beggars Banquet By: Eric Greenwood Even in its heyday, which is now almost a decade past, Swell was always criminally ignored, except by the French for some inexplicable reason… So, a new Swell album released in 2003 will no doubt be met with similar apathy here in the United States. It's […]

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Erase Errata At Crystal Palace Troubleman By: Eric Greenwood Erase Errata has been riding a wave of hype since its debut, Other Animals, allowed crusty white kids that haven't the faintest idea how to dance a chance to take over the floor without shame for their collective lack of rhythm. Erase Errata's brand of art […]

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Araby Your Wate And Fate Curve Of The Earth By: Eric Greenwood In the fifteen months since I happened to catch Araby opening a show in its hometown of Boston, Massachusetts, its self-released, three-song demo has rarely left my rotation. The quartet's haunting and complex music is nothing short of stunning, but, at first, the […]

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Guyana Punch Line Direkt Aktion Prank By: Eric Greenwood As evidence of the fact that punk is a meaningless term, take the gulf that separates a band like Guyana Punch Line from, say, any emo band you can think of and try to reconcile any semblance of commonality under the punk umbrella. It can't be […]

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The Life And Times Flat End Of The Earth Ep 54 or 40 or Fight! By: Eric Greenwood Shiner's sudden, self-inflicted demise at the start of this year confused its loyal fanbase to no end. Why would a band at the height of its powers just willingly let it all die? For the band to […]

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The Blood Brothers Burn, Piano Island, Burn Artist Direct By: Eric Greenwood The Blood Brothers' spastic, abrasive aggression is an acquired taste to say the least- even for those with a predilection to appreciate insanely frantic hardcore. On Burn, Piano Island, Burn, the Seattle quintet's third album, the band teams up with Limp Bizkit's producer, […]

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The White Stripes Elephant V2 By: Eric Greenwood Miraculously untainted by severe over-exposure, The White Stripes return with another blistering set of mock-blues through the eyes of two pasty white-faced Goths from Detroit in candy stripe drag. Musically, Elephant is just as raw and spontaneous as it would have been had no one given two […]

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