The Voids
Sounds of Failure, Sounds of Hope
Label: Doctor Strange Records
Release Date July 10, 2007

Adri – vocals
Mike – drums
Chris – guitar
Ruby – bass guitar

01. Money and Music
02. Bad Dreams
03. Suburban Boredom
04. Disconnected
05. Fear
06. Grasping Hands
07. Are You Happy?
08. Romance and Heartbreak
09. Take It Back
10. Undone
11. Violent Nights
12. 24 Faces

Vocally, and musically The Voids sound like a hybrid of 1980 L.A. Hardcore with a twist of Devo influence.

Musically, the group is really good, but my only problem with this album was the vocals, Adri sounds like Bret Michaels from Poison trying to sound like Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys.

The seventh track Are You Happy? is a Regan Youth cover.

Al in all a fun listen, check them out.

If you get the chance to get a copy of this, go get it.

Rating: ** * two out of three stars

Download:
Suburban Boredom
http://drstrange.com/pub/dsr112_suburban.mp3

Are You Happy?
http://drstrange.com/pub/dsr112_are_you_happy.mp3

On to the story . . .

Back in July of 2009 I hopped a train for San Diego to attend the San Diego Comic-Con. Talked to a bunch of people. Rapped with David Finch, the artist of the latest Disturbed album covers. Stuff like that. Henry Rollins didn’t appear this year.

The absolute highlight of the four-day trip was hanging out at Taang Records on 5th Avenue. The owner, Curtis gave us a punk history lesson like I had never heard, played us a bunch of old singles (Victims – Annette on Plan 9), and gave us run down on how he started the Taang label, and how the shops came to be. Great shop, if you’re in the area stop in and check the place out.