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Here’s my year end list as originally published at Punknews.org. I think all of the staff lists this year left a lot of the regulars scratching their heads, but I’ll comment on that later.
Crisis on Infinite Orgs
If my efforts this year seem a bit abbreviated, I moved into the house I’ve been renovating for the [...]

Not that the Deadly Snakes’ abilities were ever in doubt, but there’s something about 2005’s Porcella that’s all the more remarkable months after the fact. 2003’s Ode to Joy went lengths to shed any stylistic constraints that roped the band to their garage rock label, so the direction on Porcella was certainly not out of [...]

* This article is originally from Punknews.org, where I’m a news editor and reviewer, of course.
My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
When historians sit down to write the annals of the House Of A, 2005 will span chapters. I finished school in May and with degree in hand moved from the wonderfully cultured city [...]

How good is Porcella? The Deadly Snakes completely reinvented themselves here, and while there’s less outright garage freakouts the amount of layered, atmospheric compositions makes up for it. You’d suspect they were listing to Rain Dogs quite a bit when recording it. The fact that the band sequestered themselves in an cabin somewhere in northern [...]