This tape is from 1989, and was re-issued on Noise/Futurist records in 1993. This is very fast clear sounding guitar riffs along with nice chunky ones.This is pretty good 80`s metal, but not a hair band. The lead singer is the typical metal screamer, but his voice can be understood. Songs on this tape sound like mid-80’s Metallica or Megadeth. The drums are somewhat hollow sounding on this recording. Overall,…
JFT-2 Song Single-Farren Music-1999 . The bassist for JFT learned from the Matt Freeman school of bass playing, which is to play fast and noticible. The songs generally have a pop-punk sound . This cd has very catchy, excellent planned hooks. The songs rangs about two and a half minutes, which is normal for punk songs but short for all other songs. If the band is properly promoted, they could…
This was released in 1996, on Lobster Records. The lead singer has a very young sounding snotty voice and the guitarist and the drummer sound very talented. The thing that distinguishes Joystick from all of the other bands, is that their songs poke fun at various things (A grand band makes fun of the punk scene). The lead of Joystick can also sing really fast, and he sounds like Greg…
Track Listing 1)Runaway Assholes 2)Rodeo Blood Monkeys 3)Definite Problem Upstate 4)A Night of Shirt 5)Pants Dance This band is extremely cool.I saw them live at a local concert along with mr.tORNaDo heAd and even talked to a few members of the band.Their music is funky and good to rock dance to and even moshable (hehehehe….thats how i got this tape). All and all i give this tape about an 7…
3 song EP, 1999, self released. A 3 piece somewhat local band with an indy rock sound in the vein of 3rd eye blind and the goo goo dolls. Light riffs with nice sounding lyrics and a truly polished sound. They sound better live , with much more bass and cooler songs. In their live set they can even sound like an alt metal band. This tape is definitely not…
Track Listing 1)God`s Greenest Acre 2)Sister 3)Sweet Pea` 4)Touch What can i say.This band is amazing live,and the tape is pretty good.The guys i talked to from this band are really cool.At the show they played like 10 or 11 songs that werent on the tape so i recommend seeing them live.The best song on the tape is “Sister” and on a 10 point scale i give them an 8.…
The album has 12 songs, and it was released in 1998 by Pine Creek Entertainment. This is the first release by Pine Creek, and boy is it a good one. Indigenous can be reached at www.indigenousrocks.com.They are a 4 members band, and all the members are related (3 brothers and 1 sister). They play a style of blues rock that is updated for the 1990’s. They are very talented guitar…
This band is simply great sounding. They are fast old style punk, with obvious influences of Surf music and Oi! Punk. The recording is a little rough, but their talent really shows through. All of the pieces of the album fit together to make a very cohesive sounding band that should be able to get somewhere, provided that they stay around for more then a month. I really wish that…
Oooh, another compilation. For those that do not know, compilations are CDs with a lot of bands that are really cheap, for those punks that don’t have the money. How considerate. That shows that all record labels aren’t stuffed suit bastards trying to gain a buck. Well, enough with the personal commentary. This album is from Kyan Records, and it features the 2 bands on the record label, and 8…
Please notice that this band is regrettably no longer together, as they were great. What can I say about this band? This album is great. Good sounding vocals, and 70-s style guitar blend together in a formula that sounds like Ted Nugent meets Pantera. This album also includes a Motorhead cover: “Out of the Son” . This album also includes 3 songs in a row just about drinking “Too Damn…
This is a 6 song EP out on Noise/Futurist Records. Hellhammer was formed in 1983, and lasted until 1984, when two members of Hellhammer left the band and formed Celtic Frost, which is one of the most popular metal bands out there today. Hellhammer is speed/death metal and the recording on this tape is really shitty. The only thing different about Hellhammer from all the other Speed metal bands is…
There are Dio-ish vocals on this album, and a typical level of hair band lyrical quality. This has many amazingly neat sounding guitar solos.This album has 9 tracks. The form of this is a dirgy style of Hair Rock that is electrifing. The guitars and vocals on this album are top notch , but the bass and drums are just average. The band sounds a little bit like Twisted Sister,…
Issued Scat #35, released on Scat records in 1994, with 20 songs from the 6 piece band named Guided By Voices. “Hardcore UFOs” is Indy Rock with distortion filled guitars. These songs are definatly influenced by Pop Music ,as “Buzzards and Dreadful Crows” has vocals that sound like Rod Stewart. The songs are relatively short for non punk songs. “The Goldheart Mountain Top Queens Directory” is awesome, strong, and a…
 7 inch / 2 Songs / Sonic Swirl Records (SSR) The albums has 2 songs: Satan Superman and Dotbuster. I got this piece of vinyl for only 50 cents at Schoolkids Records, which is one of the only things there that is worth the price that Schoolkids charges.There are much better record stores in Athens, Ohio, including places like Outer Limits. This is good, fast, indy punk with vocals delivered…
Very Odd, Very indy minded music from California. Too bad that this tape is from 1993, and i do not know if the band is still together. Any info about this band would be greatly appreciated, and the person that gives me valid info will get a link on my index page. Now back to the tape. This band is female-leaded, and it is on GODCO tunes. This tape has…
The CD has 14 songs ,was published in 97, and is on Flying Nun Records . GL is a 4 piece band from New Zealand. They have very decent Indy songs with excellent tempo changes, while still keeping a cohesive sound. The transcribing of the lyrics to the CD liner is horrible. GL can sound like all sorts of acts, going from hard rock to pop to Alt. Rock. “Nude…
This album is on Discovery Records and it was released in 1995 with 11 songs. This is Indy rock done by two bothers that are Australian. They sound only like one other Aussie band, and that is Midnight Oil. Their influences also include Bowie, and Elvis Costello. This is slow tempoed music. The vocals are alright, but the whole presentation of the music is incredibly boring. The two brothers write…
I notice about this tape is that the sound is abnormally clear for being a bootleg. Really good old school punk with great riffs, clear vocals, and awesome drumming. The voice of the vocalist is awesomely strange. Fugazi makes me want to mosh, because they are so awesome, even on a bootleg. Fugazi is evidently also a very political band which always makes the songs a lot better. It gives…
1995 Fear Records, and it has 16 songs. These bands are one of the best examples of a old punk band coming back in the 1990s. An anomaly in this band is that they have a black guy in the band. All the parts of this band are great, with excellent vocals and great audible bass, and best of all, funny as hell, sexist lyrics. The songs are very catchy…
Self Released, 1999, 3 song demo. This 4 piece band from California is a kick ass metal band. They can be best described as thrash/death metal, and they’re songs are very catchy and will make you mosh. Typical great guitars with unintelligible vocals that make the whole genre good. They do a little it of symphonic metal, and then just rock balls out. The fallen are very talented, and they…