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rock reviews

Cake – Showroom of Passion

Cake comes back at us with “Showroom of Compassion” after a 7 year stretch with no studio recordings. If you loved the other Cake albums, you will love this one as well. The songs are very reminiscent of the older…

SSSSnakes – Kissss Thissss

These guys are super hard to classify into any one genre, but one thing is for sure, this album is great. It has an old Descendants & Dead Milkmen feel to it. The songs are fast paced and have humorous lyrics. Songs…

Circa Survive – Appendage EP

This EP follows closely behind Blue Sky Noise, and is actually comprised of B-sides and 1 demo from that album. If you enjoyed Blue Sky Noise, you will surely love this EP. Although the instruments are played well and the…

Dirty Tactics & Bangers Split 7″

This split 7″ has two solid bands on it, Bangers and Dirty Tactics. Dirty Tactics covers a Crimpshrine song, “Another Day”, awesomely. They are reminiscent of the Bay area punk scene where Chrimpshrine thrived. On the flip side is Bangers who…

Mike Patton – Mondo Cane

Mike Patton comes back at us with his newest album “Mondo Cane”. If you are expecting anything close to Faith No More or Mr Bungle you will be sad. This album is a bunch of Italian pop songs from the…

The Vaselines – Sex With An X

Just the mention of The Vaselines bring up thoughts of Nirvana.  Kurt Cobain considered this group some of the greatest song writers in history and covered numerous songs of The Vaselines. Listening to this album it is easy to see…