Band: No-Shadow Kick
Album: The Promo EP
Label: self-released
Released: Fall 2001
Catalog#: n/a
Rating (out of 10): 6.5
***It’s both funny and sad that I can’t really give links for any of the thousands of words I wrote for the Northeast Performer back in the day. Instead I have to rely on band websites that still happen to have old [...]
Song: “Wonder Beer”
Band: Naked Raygun
Album: Understand?
Analysis: A crisp, refreshing draught of vintage Raygun.
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The first time I heard this song was 1992 or 1993, well after Understand? had come out, but it was still new to me. A friend of mine had found the cassette in the bargain bin of a chain record store and was [...]
Band: Helicopter Helicopter
Album: Great Big Meaningless
Label: Lunch Records
Released: November 2002
Catalog #: LR038
Rating (out of 10): 8
Great Big Meaningless, a repackaging of Helicopter Helicopter’s first two albums –Squids and Other Fishes (1998) and Analog & Electrical Fields (1999), is 60 minutes of woozy rock’n’roll bliss. It’s rare enough to find an entire album that is good [...]
