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Actionslacks is the diligent straight-C student of rock, the kid who, despite studying for every test, stays so damn average it hurts. If everything goes right and no one is trying too hard, the Berkeley trio is capable of good music. However, Actionslacks spent the better part of a decade assembling a bland, impersonal discography…

The Frumpies could easily be boiled down into a tiny ball of forgotten cool made from the stylish hair of ’90s vintage punk rock women. The quartet’s half-baked singles, coated though they may have been with a temporary sheen of hipness, reflect little of the genuinely exciting music made by its members’ other groups —…

Wendy Case’s voice sounds like Chrissie Hynde turned into the Hulk, retaining enough subtlety to prevent Paybacks records from being overheated shoutfests while making a case for the most powerful bellow in rock — male or female. That bellow is the centerpiece of the group’s lean, ragged and bruisingly tuneful sound on Knock Hard by…