Contributions
Golden City - Golden City
Golden City Christie Front Drive remain one of the most underrated bands of the mid-'90s emo explosion, never capturing the same audience as peers the Get Up Kids and Braid, but doubtlessly influencing as many aspiring near-punks before their implosion in the late '90s. CFD braintrust Eric Richter briefly ventured into atmospheric post-rock with Antarctica, […]
Pissed Jeans - King Of Jeans
King Of Jeans After the total sonic destruction and abandon of 2007's Hope For Men, this Allentown, Pennsylvania, quartet weren't in for an easy ride with their third full-length. Thankfully, it crushes with more speed, weirdness and sheer sonic weight than Hope For Men and the band's punkier debut, 2005's Shallow. While Pissed Jeans have always cribbed […]
Landlord - Lifers
Lifers Emerging from Bloomington, Indiana, garage-punk three piece Landlords have issued a powerful, lo-fi sonic statement with Lifers. Featuring members of the Door-Keys and Defiance, Ohio, Landlord doesn't sound much like either; instead, the songs seem to be drawing parallel influences from classic Bay Area punk and '90s rock, with "Not Fair" bouncing between Fifteen's Jeff […]