Anti-Nowhere League So What: Early Demos and Live Abuse Castle Compiling two previously released albums, So What: Early Demos and Live Abuse is a 2 CD set by the UK band, half demos and half live. The first disc is Out of Control which consists of demos recorded in 1980, prior to their first actual [...]

Dustin’s Bar Mitzvah Get Your Mood On Hungry Kid I love this record. Although they’ve already released a few singles this year, this record is the first by London’s Dustin’s Bar Mitzvah that I’ve heard and it’s good, good stuff. The opening track is a slow intro with spoken vocals and I wasn’t sure where [...]

Sonic Youth The Destroyed Room Geffen I’m not going to bother writing much about Sonic Youth, you probably either like them or you don’t. Their latest CD (and the last needed to finish their contract with Geffen) is a collection of 11 b-sides, unreleased tracks and rarities. The choices here were made by band members, [...]

Tiny Masters of Today K.I.D.S. Tigertrap Records The second release from Brooklyn’s TMOT isn’t a whole lot different from their summer record "Big Noise". Lo-fi garage rock with semi-coherent lyrics and smashing cymbals all over the place. Not that it’s a bad thing. One difference between them and other bands that don’t make it out [...]

Wasteland D.C. Through Hollow Eyes Happy Couple Never Last Playing crusty metal, this Indianapolis band (nope, they’re not from D.C. as their name might suggest) is loud, angry and heavy as Hell. The album opens with some nice acoustic guitar before tearing into frenzied thrash and the rest of the record continues the rage. The [...]