The Amity Front - Highway Bound

Joey: Like the looser moments of The Band - slower and more Whiskey influenced…er something.
Marky: Southern Mad Dogs and Southern Men. A little Leon Russel. Singer needs a tune-bucket.
Dee Dee: Yo! It's Randy Newman! Randy Newman, play me a song!
Johnny: Vagabonds with ponytails, the bridge between what's hippy and what's hip.

The Bosch - Buy One Get One

Joey: Good solid pseudo-punk rock. A more pop-savvy Ramones or modernized Stooges. Awesome.
Marky: Ramones-influenced, but with their own chunky flavor. Great rhythms and drills. Cool, buddy.
Dee Dee: Loud rock that would be ablast live. Rock on!
Johnny: Fun, upbeat lo-fi with and organ.

Cholo - Cholo

Joey: Like the most musical moments of The Fall…similarly redundant lyrics and wild content.
Marky: Frank Black meets Black Francis in Sweden to discuss Lou Reed. Nice stuff.
Dee Dee: Rawkus Pixies spawned off-key rock.
Johnny: Mucho Pixies, un polito sabroso, como Surfer Rosa.

Early Grace - Kick The Sky

Joey: A slower, gentler, countrier X - Burning House Of Love era. Really great instrumentation & production.
Marky: Soul pop hard-folk closest to 4 Non-Blondes. Her voice is slightly grating and needs effects.
Dee Dee: Carly Simon…is that how you spell Carly Simon? Cause this is definitely Carly Simon.
Johnny: Good alt-country, inspirational crying jag. Sponge-bathing the mule.

Exeter Popes - Exeter Popes

Joey: Off-key warbling on tunes that sound like rejects from Cure records. Downbeat and moody. Nice.
Marky: The Carpenters for the new age. Inoffensive and pleasant. Pass the suppositories.
Dee Dee: A sleepy jog through the Tootsie Roll forest of Rock and Roll land.
Johnny: Morning sounds like this when you kill the pain of a trust-fund with heroin.

Gingerbread Patriots - Wax Lips And Hummingbirds

Joey: Cool, catchy Indie-electronica. Fairly low-beat with excellent production and really nice songs. Postal Service stylee.
Marky: Smashing Pumpkins playing quiet so as not to wake the neighbors. Bittersweet wussiness.
Dee Dee: Mellow downbeat toons to chill out to.
Johnny: Seducing the Snuggle Bear ™, breaking his heart. His little fresh-smelling heart.

Arden Kaywin - Quarter Life Crisis

Joey: Amazing vocalist on mature pop music. Kind of Dionne Farris style. Terrific production and nice songs.
Marky: Another nasal, breathy piano popster with hidden country roots. Good songwriting, style wears thin.
Dee Dee: Solid singer/songwriter.
Johnny: Is sexy and, apparently, a musician.

Lack Of Knowledge - Grey CD

Joey: The continuation of The Factory sound continues. Section 25 mixed with Joy Division. Imagine that!
Marky: So much like Ian Curtis it's startling. Something attractively naïve about it. I dig big.
Dee Dee: Is it legal to put a Joy Division CD in your own jewel case?
Johnny: Faraway post-punk with melody and angst.

Lowry - Awful Joy

Joey: Some nice indie rock from a kid who might be Conner Oberst's little brother…adopted.
Marky: J Mascis took Sleep Eze and No Doze. Then had someone sporadically cinch up his jewells.
Dee Dee: More of that Bright Eyes crap. When will it end?
Johnny: Good music, talentless singing.

Mojo Gurus - Shakin' In The Barn

Joey: NRBQ went back to playing smoky barrooms! 12 bar blues trying country. Nice job.
Marky: Hoodoo? Southern pop rock? Billy Vera goof-country-rock. Next please.
Dee Dee: Well, it has happened; hipster indie cowboys. Those boys sure dress pretty.
Johnny: Standard rock with the edges smoothed out and sanded. Piano, muted slide-guitar.

Nuffsed - Ignite The Fuse

Joey: Some good high energy white reggae wih good rapping. That's a fair solid, mate.
Marky: Decent reggae. Good power and tunes. Some dancehall/reggaeton. Good for dancing with babies.
Dee Dee: Ruff-reggae-rock that hasa twist of hip-hop, sadly it leaves an unpleasant taste behind.
Johnny: Mostly white reggae which undoubtedly plays well in mostly white ski towns.

Amy Obenski - Kite

Joey: Crisp, clean new folk. Nice songs. Fans of Ani Difranco's good music should pay attention.
Marky: Simple, pretty early 70's folk pop. Carol King, Maria Muldaur. Great for hitting on hippie moms, OK?
Dee Dee: Singer sonwriter chick laying down what you expect from singer songwriter chicks. Not bad.
Johnny: Sensitive, self-involved girl (brushes, piano, acoustic guitar, liberal arts degree.) Required listening for introspection.

Adam Rich - You Can't Escape Life

Joey: Basement Joe Satriani gives it a shot. Some good playing, fair ideas, but lacks soul.
Marky: Loved him as Nicholas Bradford, but Grant Goodeve writes better lyrics. Poor man's Joe Walsh.
Dee Dee: Simple, predictable, and often off-key. Which is OK if you're into that.
Johnny: The best album I have ever heard! I feel like I'm actually in Adam's basement!

Robert Cherry - The New Forever

Joey: Lloyd Cole style slow pop. Thoughtful songs and cool production. Terry Scott Taylor-ish
Marky: Hard to pin down. Robbie Robertson meets Rob Dougan. Divirsity for old people.
Dee Dee: Not very inspiring, a serious blend of popular 90's styles.
Johnny:Good time to get another slice of pizza, have another cigarette. Most of the time, I fight the urge to be a glutton but seeing as I can't slow my head down enough to figure out what my next step is, I may as well dispense with all of the slight grief in my life and enjoy another slice of pizza, another beer and another cigarette. I will distract myself with slow music in the meantime. Then I figure I have to make some sort of effort. Fucker. Robert Cherry is a fucker.

Matthew Shaw - Convenience

Joey: Perfect electro-pop along the lines of Postal Service and Say Hi To Your Mom. Awesome.
Marky: So unengaging, I jack-jawed through the whole thing. It's whiny enough, I'll give him that.
Dee Dee: Beep Beep Postal Service Beep.
Johnny: Reminds me of that stupid Republican bitch.