It’s funny, but the memory had gotten totally and completely buried, deep in the base of my brain. It wasn’t until I put Burn Berlin Burn, the 1997 double-EP opus from Berlin-bred, raw-as-hell electro-noise slam-punks Atari Teenage Riot on the player once again…
The Willowz. I figured that any band popping up on the Eternal Sunshine soundtrack was worth a listen. Top that off with a turn-of-the-century American controversy for a title, and it gets even better…
Ladies and gentlemen, back from the dead, I give you…the triumphant resurrection of Elastica! Okay, so that’s not quite true; yes, on Scanners’ debut disc, Violence Is Golden, there is indeed a serious resemblance to those ’90s Brit-popsters, particularly in the sleek, sensual feel…
For nearly a decade, the music industry’s armchair quarterbacks waited for “the next Nirvana” — the band that would remind big record labels and radio listeners (again) what decent music sounded like (and that it could be sold to teenagers). When it came, bands that hit the (much smaller, due to hip-hop) rock jackpot…
I’ve got a soft spot for Seattle noisemakers the Blood Brothers, it’s true. Unlike a lot of their fellow travelers in the noise-rock arena, they always seemed to hang onto to some semblance of a groove, and vocalist Johnny Whitney always staggered relatively close…
