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Various: Power for Passion Label: Dionysus Release Date: 2004 Review Date: 9/16/05 Power for Passion is subtitled “file under power pop 1978-85.” As compilations go, this one is pretty darn good. Originally this review was to be written by my friend Shane who is Mr. Power Pop. The first thing he did was grouse about […]

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Various: Just Go Destroy Everything In Sight! Label: Dionysus Records Release Date: 2005 Review Date: 4/12/05 Every once in a while a compilation comes out that becomes the definitive example of a particular scene, a snapshot that gets pulled out every so often through the years and instantly transports you to another time and place. […]

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Various: Resistance Label: Factory13/No Front Teeth Release Date: 2003 Review Date: 2003 From London England and Cleveland U.S.A. comes the Resistance! Not content to promote anarcho-non-conformist skateboarding, Factory 13 has teemed up with No Front Teeth to promote anarcho-non-conformist skate rock. Resistance is a mix of studio and live recordings from the Americas and the […]

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Various: Early Modulations Vintage Volts Label: Caipirinha Music Release Date: 1999 Recording Date: 1953-1967 Review Date: 2002 Do you like electronic music? Consider yourself an afficianado? Listen, you probably don’t know shit. Now don’t get your Kraftwerk bowels in an uproar. Pick up a copy of Vintage Volts and educate yourself. This is the origin […]

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If you’ve bought one Ramones record, you’ve probably bought a lot of them. Sometimes you’ve had to buy the same record more than once because people borrow and steal them. Then CD’s came out and you had to buy imports because that was the only way you could get the earlier records until the multi […]

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Bruce Haack: Hush Little Robot Label: Normal Release Date: 1998 Recording Date: 1968-1974 Review Date: 2000 Update: At the time this review was written, there was literally no information available on the internet about the Bruce Haack. The very sparse liner notes didn’t provide much help either. The review was written under the assumption that […]

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No, you haven’t somehow slept through the release of Social D’s 6th album. This is a very limited CD, released only in Germany, which brings together most of their B-sides from their many demo singles over the years. On those demo singles they would pair their most popular songs with a cover of an obscure […]

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