Backlash - Lodestar e.p.

Bucky: Euro-pop EBM, very Depeche Mode. Heavy analog synthesis and dark vocals - gives Wolfsheim a run.
Rudy: Well named. I'll take them up on it… depressed people shouldn't make dance music.
Mushmouth: Mesh t-shirts, ecstacy light sticks, South Beach playboys… Dance, Dance, Dance!
Russell: Depeche Mode should look into copyright issues.

Black Keys - Black Keys Live DVD

Bucky: Ferocious live set from Akron's blues mongers. High energy, great tone - Hendrix stylee.
Rudy: Low down, stripped down American blues rock. Deceptively simple. Hendrix. MC5.
Mushmouth: One guitarist, one drummer playing rock'n'roll that makes other cultures idolize the middle of America.
Russell: One word: Rocking!

Catfish Haven - Please Come Back

Bucky: Mid-tempo semi-lo-fi rock and roll… classic rock style, gritty vocals, groovy basslines. Garagey and cool.
Rudy: Fantastic raw 60's soul. Foundations, Billy Paul. No harmonies, just tons of ehart.
Mushmouth: Mid-fi Jackson Browne. Good drinking music.
Russell: Gritty soulful rock. Simple, straight & honest. A nice change.

Ran Devyn - Soltrain

Bucky: Soulful urban soundtrack - cool songs, excellent basslines, very groovy, very soulful. Prince at times.
Rudy: If Stevie Wonder was G-Rock, he would cap Jamiroquai. Ran's clean hot soul.
Mushmouth: Stevie Wonder would like to take Ran Devyn to the bridge and push him over it.
Russell: Shows some potential, but there are too many oohs and aahs.

Gooding - Angel/Devil

Bucky: Tasteful borderline jam rock guitars and groovy basslines that higlight good songs. Very enjoyable.
Rudy: Masterful musical masturbating mediocrity. Collective Soul.
Mushmouth: Jam band drumming, sensitive singing. Will get you laid at a liberal arts' college.
Russell: I wish the music was better, because the cover art is amazing!

Mad Francis - Let's Get Naked

Bucky: Good songs by a kid who sounds like Billy Bragg without the accent.
Rudy: He is becoming but is not yet a musician. Wears a parka in class.
Mushmouth: Insufferable. So tired of this sensitive hurt-guy shit, so tired. Thank Christ for the DVD.
Russell: This guy would kill at the Holiday Inn!

Mary-Jane - What I Came Here For

Bucky: Straight ahead rock and roll in the style of Joan Jett. Energetic and cool.
Rudy: Her rich rock voice doesn't fit the music and her breasts don't fit her blouse.
Mushmouth: Rocks hard, sounds gritty, excellent production - bass heavy. Guitar sounds like Concrete Blonde.
Russell: Back to the trailer park with you!

Masters Of The Lunaverse - The Anonymous e.p.

Bucky: Post-punk ethics on clever songs with thick, echoey guitars and crisp rhythms. Hives meets Kinks.
Rudy: Nervous modern rock, making it retro. Exciting explosive power pop. Quite good, actually.
Mushmouth: Lots of surf and new wave. Touches of Fugazi. Totally cool.
Russell: Don't let the name fool you, this is real rock, not retard rock.

Jeff Merchant - Window Rolled Down

Bucky: Ultra-pop elements in a down-tempo, semi-jazzy format. Too campy for most and very silly.
Rudy: Emo-folk. Pleasant music, but humorless and very fey. Andrew Bird raised in a test tube.
Mushmouth: Campfire music for a rehab. Lutes and recorders should have died with the black plague.
Russell: Trying to be too pretty. I don't like pretty boys, Jeff.

Mi And L'au - Mi And L'au

Bucky: Very downbeat and moody atmosphere. Serene and low music for mellow-out times. Smoothly excellent.
Rudy: Delicate and darkly beautiful. The lives of circus people behind the scenes.
Mushmouth: Mom said if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all…
Russell: Weird and overly artsy-fartsy. Very Belle And Sebastian.

The Motion Sick - Her Brilliant Fifteen

Bucky: Keyboard infused smart indie rock around excellent drumming and atonal vocals. Clever lyrics & brilliant musicianship.
Rudy: They might not be giants, but manlier than Jeff Merchant. Cute. Dead Milkmen.
Mushmouth: Flaming Lips no longer thinking.
Russell: Indie rock goodness at its freshest. Most excellent.

Nagg - Nagg

Bucky: Like Pat Benatar fronting a garage version of Jesus & Mary Chain. Rock and roll!
Rudy: Sleazy chick bar punk. Nashville Pussy, Hemicuda. Not too engaging.
Mushmouth: Standard rock'n'roll. Not bad, just needs bigger hooks and more background vocals.
Russell: This band should be called THE Nagg.

Malcolm Palmer - Between the Womb And The Tomb

Bucky: Acoustic guitar hip-hop lite. Dude has a whole lot to say and says it all.
Rudy: Great music, dull deliberate rapping. Soul Coughing wannabes. Heard it all.
Mushmouth: Dropping heavy social commentary, rapping over jam band funk.
Russell: Social hippie-hop. Hip-hop + Dave Matthews + Phish… Don't let this continue. Please!

The Red Note - Weatherman

Bucky: Indie Sesame Street rock. Awesome when horns play, even better when things get wilder. Calexico-ish.
Rudy: Stellar Mexican horns and a pissed Marc Anthony. Then snoozeville. The Klezmer is okay, too.
Mushmouth: Dixie Russian Jewish folk dancing with a little smashing piñatas for good measure.
Russell: This band rocks. The room started dancing… it was scary, but awesome. Note: identity crisis.

The Relief Effort - At Your Mercy

Bucky: Mid-tempo lo-fi Creed rock. Talent in the rough, really poorly recorded drums. Maybe better someday.
Rudy: Sloppy drumming, clichéd lyrics. Vocals had us laughing. Get Chloraseptic.
Mushmouth: Creed stuck in the Astrodome with a very-out-of-work Joe Cocker. Most entertaining cover in years.
Russell: Creed sucks, too… which sucks because they have such a pretty vinyl record-looking CD.

Tic Code - Faccade

Bucky: Schizophrenic math rock - all over the map, but some interesting spots… I still don't get it.
Rudy: Musical terrorism. Threatening a tune, then shattering it with arithmetic.
Mushmouth: Math rock/ interest x (melody) - (lyrics) = % 2/stupid to uinderstand.
Russell: Who listens to this crap? This is fucking shit.