Although Happy Go Licky has the same line-up as its predecessor, Rites of Spring, it’s not difficult to distinguish the two DC ensembles. The entire recorded output of the short-lived Happy Go Licky is from soundboard recordings from the group’s seven live performances. Unlike Rites of Spring, whose songs were more melodic and less buzzy…
It should come as no surprise that, in the enlightened era of cyber-dominance, a band has emerged to loosen the human grip on musical culture. A robot rock band. And should it come as a surprise that said band includes members of Man or Astro-Man? and Supernova? (Only prior to their proper full length release…
The entire post-scene (post-rock, -Rodan, -emo, -you name it) has never seen a creature the likes of the VSS. As with all sure-to-be “legendary” bands of the ’90s, this Berkeley (via Denver) band of sonic butchers spent its entire existence in obscurity. But the quartet’s importance will undoubtedly escalate as future high schoolers and dropouts…
As a performing unit, Athens, Georgia’s Harvey Milk — named, of course, after the assassinated gay San Francisco politician — is harder to pigeonhole than a jacked-up sugar freak having an epileptic seizure. You wouldn’t expect a band that can do entire sets of either Hank Williams or REM to play original material more aligned…
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 BeckerJohn BergstromArt BlackJohn…
