“Sunday†starts out with a very classic type of sound that shows The Cakes as a band that are very in touch with the bands that they listened to as kids. This means during “Sundayâ€, there are hints of Toni Basil, The Moody Blues, and even Styx. The production value of this EP is solid enough to allow for The Cakes to not be held back but anything but their…
The dreamy opening to “I Guess I Was Daydreaming†allows Cake on Cake to give individuals a foundation for which to base opinions of the album off of. There is a smart decision made by Cake on Cake at the beginning of the disc, as the first track barely cracks the two minute mark. Having such a short track opening up the album allows for two different styles to come…
I cannot give any information about this act, except that they played a local punk show about 4-5 years ago with other local Ohio acts, and that I picked this disc up in Columbus a few years back many months after they probably disbanded. While “Cooperate†has some serious problems, as it sticks to the typical pop-punk song, it has a very interesting sound to it. While they don’t thank…
Playing a style of rock that mixes together the smoothed-out vocals of Matthew Good with a Geddy Lee-style of voice and scruffy-distorted guitars, Cafebar 401 strikes at the heart of many a listener with their first salvo, “Full-pro Discoâ€. Slowing down the tempo but not removing the strong bass presence during “Many Left Here Long Beforeâ€, Cafebar 401 play a track that is the equivalent of a monotone – flat,…
Stephenie Meyer’s fawned-over vampire soap opera Twilight may have been stealing all the press this Spring, but HBO’s True Blood is hands down the far more interesting vampire saga. The first season, told over 12 episodes, comes off like a cross between Twin Peaks and Six Feet Under (whose creator, Alan Ball, also happens to be the man behind True Blood).
The Caesars are known unfortunately because of their song “Jerk It Out”, which is annoying to say the least. What is more indicative of their music is a track like the one they opened up “Paper Tigers” with; namely, “It’s Not The Fall That Hurts”. The straight-forward rock sound of that track, with a twinge of eighties dusky electronics, really makes a play for an entirely new genre of music.…
13 songs, released in 2001 on BEC Recordings. Cadet is a 3 piece band whose CD clocks in a 43:20, or about 3:32 a song. Cadet is a very clear sounding Christian punk band who begins to impress with “Speed of Sound†using a synth and also laying the bass on heavily creates a toe-tapping song which owes more to the Presidents of the United States then anything.
This band from Detroit/Ann Arbor is a punky Monster Magnet/Corrosion of Conformity style band that has an extreme dependence on the amazing bass lines that are put out by Oliver Blades. Busy Signal is a very innovative band, playing a style of self-proclaimed punk that is totally independent of most of the current punk bands out on the market today.
I must admit that this was the first recording by The Business that I was lucky enough to receive for review. I was only informed about the band because of their split with the Dropkick Murphies.
With a very deliberate set of guitars starting off “Skateboards and Kung Fuâ€, Bury the Living really do not come into individual’s attention until the band kicks it into high gear during the choruses of the track. There is not this start-up time needed during “Your Brutality Has A Nameâ€, a track in which Bury the Living compresses a few minute long song into something that ends well before the…
