Sunday, January 1 1995
Mudhoney: Here Comes Sickness: The Best of the BBC Recordings
According to guitarist Steve Turner’s liner notes for Here Comes Sickness: The Best of the BBC Recordings, Mudhoney seem pretty damn clear about what they…
My Favorite: Joan of Arc Awaiting Trial
Be careful what you wish for, young man, you will surely get it. Depeche Mode has switched places with U2, as the one became more…
Mark Mallman and Vermont: self-titled
Maybe it’s just because as I write I’m sitting with my feet in a bucket of ice-water next to a fan that’s turned on full…
Billie Myers: Vertigo
Billie Myers could probably get by with marching onto a stage and just standing there—uttering not even a note for two hours and get a…
Steve Morse: Major Impacts
To begin with, Steve Morse is one of the finest rock guitarists in the world, so I’m not sure how I feel about critiquing his…
Momus: Folktronic
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The Montgomery Cliffs: self-titled
FLASH! Apparently quite a number of people in the rock press have likened The Montgomery Cliffs to Elvis Costello and the Attractions. Look, just because…
The Myracle Brah: self-titled
The following interview is fictional, which doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Ben Varkentine: We’re talking this morning to the unlikely named Andy Bopp, singer, songwriter…
The Mercury Program: All the Suits Began to Fall Off
The stock is rising for The Mercury Program no doubt. This Floridian quartet has managed to do something very few bands in its class have…
u-Ziq, Royal Astronomy
Mike Paradinas (a.k.a. µ-Ziq) delivers his first set since 1997’s Lunatic Harness with the staggeringly amazing Royal Astronomy. A tour with Björk renewed Paradinas’ interest…
Monster Magnet: God Says No
Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey, Dave Wyndorf and company concoct gloriously big, dumb teen stoner anthems with little more than a dream and a…
Matt Pond PA: Measure
Philadelphia band, Matt Pond PA creates delicate, soft-spoken music that possibly can only be described as “beautiful.” The name is pretty self-explanatory: band lead by…
Minibar: Road Movies
There are certain things that make spaces feel homier: your favorite blanket slung over the couch, childhood photos propped in frames, a calendar scrawled with…
The Moto-Litas: For the Greater Good
It sounded like a good idea to Mary and Courtney and Erin and Stacy: let’s start a band! After all, we all listen to good…
The Microphones: It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water
Listening to the Microphones latest release, It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water, is much like the sensation of looking at visual works by…
The Masters Of The Hemisphere
Athens, Georgia boy pop combo the Masters of the Hemisphere are youngsters for sure, but its members are veterans of more than 30 bands and…
Medeski, Martin and Wood, Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps): Best of (1991-1996)
Until now, I’ve never been entirely sure whether or not I liked Medeski, Martin and Wood. Perhaps I’ve heard them dismissed one time too many…
Molly Hatchet: Live at the Agora Ballroom Atlanta, Georgia, April 20, 1979
When the smoke clears after rock ‘n’ roll dies for the final time, a select few artists will forever stand high above the hordes of…
Make Lisa Rich: Another Venus
Naming everyone from Tommy James to Nirvana as an influence, Boston’s Make Lisa Rich hype themselves as the torch-bearers of power-pop. The songs on the…
The Makers: Rock Star God
The Makers have already had their ripple in the independent press. The band has had perhaps the biggest controversy that one could have at this…
