Bury Your Dead – Beauty and the Breakdown (c) 2006 Victory RecordsMassachusetts band Bury Your Dead brings down a brand new furious assault with their new release ‘Beauty and the Breakdown’ Behold the 11 tracks of hardcore metal power. Grinding guitars, and pounding drums will hammer a rhythmic pulse into the deep recesses of your mind, while subtle melodic underpinings keep you intrigued as the songs continue their constant pummeling. This is good old fashioned hardcore metal, the kind your parents will still be afraid of.�Cheers,Jerry Actually
Month: July 2006
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Don't You Fake It (c) 2006 Virgin Records The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus brings about more emo-esque pretty-haired new metal pablum. I really hope to never have to listen to this CD again. It reeks with banality and is about as insipid as anything else you're going to hear on new rock radio. I suspect that one of two things is going on. 1. People really like this type of music. Ok, bully for you. Rock on with your lame self. 2. People are convinced that this is what they are supposed to like. Ok, bully for you too. Bottom line, get a set!
Grrrl : A Novel
Grrrl : A Novel – Jennifer Whiteford (c) Razorcake / Gorsky PressIf you ever were, are, or wonder what’s going on witha teenage suburbanette… READ THIS BOOK. Ottawa’sJennifer Whiteford weaves a boldly textured andbrilliantly colored tapestry of early 90’sadolescence. Grrrl is a wonderful adaptation of a highschool riot queen diary . There are too many awesomethings to tell you (the reader) about but I bet you’llenjoy it. When you get finished, pass it on to yourlittle sister. – Krystal Tolle
Dennis Bagwell
Dennis Bagwell – A Random Litter of Thought (c) 2006 Batteryface RecordsI don't very often have the opportunity to review spoken word CD's, but that is what, in fact, we have here. "A Random Litter of Though" is 29 tracks of the recorded thoughts of OC area "Beat Punk" Dennis Bagwell. Funny thing is, if you do some research on Mr. Bagwell, you turn up a whole lot of info about a Texas former death row inmate of the same name. I'm going to suspect that unless this is a posthumous release, they are not one in the same. This Dennis Bagwell carries on in more of the vein of Ginsberg and Burroughs. The poems speak of death and redemption, love and loss and some liken humanity to feces. Though I respect the work done here, it isn't very easy to rock out to. In fact, it is kind of dragging on and on. I think poems are likely better left to the printed page.