Talk about your split personalities… When I first heard A Wilhelm Scream’s 2005 release, Ruiner, it knocked me down, cracked my head open, and utterly rearranged the mental furniture before stitching me back together again. The music was (and still is, but I’ll get to that) smart and literate…
So unlistenable as to call into question whether X was worth it in the first place. Shut up and stop pretending that your name isn’t Christine, lady.
An unfortunate number of bands like A Wilhelm Scream leave me cold. I hate to say it, but it’s gotten so that most of the folks out there who sound like these Northeastern boys (and apparent diehard Red Sox fans) all just bleed into one another — they combine the speed and heavy guitars of […]
Rufio are yet another punk-rock band from California — that is, they sound more like hard-rock to me, but they probably think of themselves as a punk band. They engage us in the age-old debate revolving around technical ability vs. inspiration. Is a technically gifted voice more important…
Punkpunkpunkpunk. These guys are reportedly pretty cool (only seen them live once, myself), and they’ve got a brand-new CD out, Ever Revolving Never Evolving, on Nitro Records, alongside their 2 “classic” previous full-lengths, Acme — 143 and Divided We Stand…
