These folks either wrote reviews that appear on the site or wrote for Trouser Press magazine. If anyone listed below cares to E-mail us with a link you’d like added, just let us know. And ditto if anyone is AWOL from this list. Grant AldenDavid AntrobusJem AswadTroy J. AugustoMichael AzerradCary BakerMichael BakerEmily BeckerSeth BenderJohn BergstromArt…
[This review was first published in Badaboom Gramophone #3 and appears here with permission.] Few punk bands could court fights like the Epileptics. In just a couple of years, this feisty English lot from Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire managed to collect complaints from the British Epilepsy Association (which eventually led the band to briefly rename itself Epi-X and…
[This review was originally published in Badaboom Gramophone #3 and appears here by permission.] Faith had the misfortune of being a very good hardcore band living in the shadow of a great one, with a sibling connection that made comparisons inevitable. But from the beginning, Faith took a different, more introspective approach to hardcore and…
[This review was originally published in Badaboom Gramophone #3 and appears here by permission.] Before their current role as a Nirvana footnote, Scream was actually one of Dischord’s best bands. Formed in Northern Virginia in 1981 by singer Peter Stahl, his brother Franz on guitar, bassist Skeeter Thompson and drummer Kent Stax, Scream channeled rabid…
[This review was originally published in Badaboom Gramophone #3 and appears here by permission.] In 1981, three critically acclaimed bands in different corners of the country were exploring the dark side of surf music. Two of them — Agent Orange in Southern California and the Wipers in Portland, Oregon — became American underground legends. The…
[This review was originally published in Badaboom Gramaphone #3 and appears here with permission.] Baltimore’s most prominent early-’80s post-hardcore band, Reptile House made its debut with the four-song I Stumble as the Crow Flies. Produced by Ian MacKaye (who also supplied some keyboards), the record has an artfulness and beautifully twisted poetry uncommon to Dischord releases. In 1985,…
[This review was originally published in Badaboom Gramophone #3 and appears here by permission.] If the excellent Washington, DC trio Chisel — Ted Leo (voice/guitar), John Dugan (drums) and Chris Norborg (bass/voice) — tires of being compared to the Jam (or to Mod Fun, for that matter), they have only themselves to blame. With their…
