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Although Buffalo Tom began with the stated intention of capturing the din of a “guitar army,” the Amherst, Massachusetts trio later did an about-face to invoke the unplugged sound and fury of a small platoon of folkies. The band’s penchant for melody-laced amps-on-stun racket (and its chummy relationship to Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis) earned a…

Cross-dressing singer Tyson Todd Meade crawled from the wreckage of Norman, Oklahoma’s Defenestration to form Chainsaw Kittens as a low-rent Bowie-cum-New-York-Dolls glam unit. Displaying the rudiments of the quartet’s sound (romping, guitar-goosed melodies, theatrically fey vocals), Violent Religion is a promising first album with some memorable tunes (“Here at the End,” the Syd Barrett-like “Feel…

Cultural pluralists have been extolling the possibilities inherent in rap/metal fusion since the days of Run-DMC’s “Rock Box,” but few bands have come up with a hybrid as gleefully diverse as that found on Mental Floss for the Globe, the first volley from a Holland-based five-piece that can claim responsibility (or at least prescience) for…

Although largely hidden in the sudden explosion of late-’80s thrash-funk combos, this exceptional New York quartet is virtually everything Living Colour would be if Vernon Reid weren’t such an overachieving technician and Corey Glover didn’t take himself so seriously. Jimi Hazel can play guitar in a variety of speedmetal, jazzbuster and post-funk styles, but spends…

Most rock bands would prefer to turn a blind eye to the subject of getting older, but Iron Prostate looks middle age in the face and laughs. Determined to grow up gracelessly, this band of (mostly) 40ish punk enthusiasts — including veteran rock critic Charles M. Young on bass — proudly displays its influences (Dead…

The late composer/guitarist Frank Zappa’s role as a spiritual godfather of punk has been largely obscured by the genre-vaulting scope of his voluminous output. His predilection for uber-fusion, avant-garde classicism, pornographic fandangos and what he called “jazz from hell” helped make the very mention of Zappa’s name anathema to large segments of the rock audience.…