Archive for August, 2004

The Weight - Ten Mile Grace

Tuesday, August 17th, 2004

As a band of punk-minded folk jamming out heartfelt, irony-free indie-country with a heavy Replacements influence, The Weight’s Ten Mile Grace covers much the same ground as Lucero did on their latest record That Much Further West. However based solely on Joseph Plunket’s incredible vocal performance and sincere, literate songwriting this record may well eclipse […]

The Ripcordz - Are Go(d)

Tuesday, August 17th, 2004

I didn’t find The Ripcordz latest material all that interesting and took a rather disinterested stab at their 2003 release What If We Held a Revolution and Nobody Came?. The title was appropriate, as the band’s second generation Exploited / GBH sound really didn’t seem all that interesting on the disc. For a latecomer to […]

Darlington - Euthanize Me

Friday, August 13th, 2004

In the past few months, Disaster has released both the Exploding Fuck Dolls retrospective and Darlington’s new record Euthanize Me, effectively unearthing the father and giving birth to the son at the same time: Christy Darlington’s latest sound bears more than a striking resemblance to a young Duane Peters and the Fuck Dolls in particular. […]