Ska-punk bands usually begin their careers mining the two tone tradition, playing lots of Specials covers and sporting three-button suits and porkpie hats. Then they gradually get punkier and punkier until their former identities as ska bands are lost forever. MU330 seems to be following the opposite trajectory, and Ultra Panic, the band's seventh album, is its most explicitly ska-oriented yet. Joined by Blue Meanies organist Chaz Linde (to add an extra dose of that old-school first...   [ read more ]

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Washington DC's Shortstack play doom country ? a kind of lonesome, demented version of old school hillbilly country-and-western blues. These 13 songs are best likened to a run-away train, speeding mercilessly around the bend to meet the devil or death, whoever gets there first. Although the music is firmly rooted in the present, the band strives to uphold an important element in traditional country music: to meditate the more despairing aspects of life. Think a less gothic Cramps, or punkier Americana-root...   [ read more ]

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'Although leader Stewart Anderson is seemingly incapable of keeping a band lineup together for more than a couple of records at a time, his band Boyracer is one of the longest-running and most prolific bands of the '90s U.K. indie pop scene. Noisier and more aggressive than many of their rather twee contemporaries, Boyracer actually has more in common with more rocking American indie bands like Henry's Dress or Pavement than with any of their contemporaries on the estimable UK indie Sarah Records.Boyracer ...   [ read more ]

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