REVIEW: The Varsity Weirdos: Can’t Go Home

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Uncle Critic

It’s Alive Records hits us with the Varsity Weirdos full length album ‘Can’t Go Home’. It’s some pretty goddamn awesome pop punk, do yourself a favor and pick it up, there’s the standard version (which this is for) and a double CD, check em out! Now!

‘Cut Throat’ A 50′s style intro riff fits in great on this song, some catchy stuff to boot.
‘Can’t Go Home’ A bass intro, you don’t get a lot of that now a days, reminds me of a Teenage Bottlerocket song.
‘Look At The Stars’ Ramones-core at it’s best.
‘L.S.F.E.S.’ A catchy song about a girl, there maybe some drinking involved too.
‘I Hate The Phone’ Lots of Whoa’s, some power cords, I’m certain this song rules hard.
‘End World’ Not a bad song but the weakest on the album, I blame the kind of whiny vocals.
‘F.B.I.’ Injecting a little more ‘punk’ into this pop punk than some of the other stuff on here, thumbs up!
‘Disconnected’ Your standard pop punk song, but I don’t mean that as an insult at all, very enjoyable.
‘Why I Didn’t Like August ’93′ Maybe my favorite song on the album, there’s got a girl problem.
‘October’ A looooooot slower than the rest of the album, but a solid song none the less.
‘Hammer’ Second best song on the album, some kind of melodic pop going on here.
‘You Bother Me’ This song rules but I don’t like the placement on the album, I think it should have been thrown in the middle…and I’m not quite sure why, just makes me wish the album was still going now!

1. Cut Throat
2. Can’t Go Home
3. Look At The Stars
4. L.S.F.E.S.
5. I Hate The Phone
6. End World
7. F.B.I.
8. Disconnected
9. Why I Didn’t Like August ’93
10. October
11. Hammer
12. You Bother Me

Get it from It’s Alive Records HERE

Get Can’t Go Home from Amazon HERE

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REVIEW: Pretty Boy Thorson & The Falling Angels/Worthwhile Way: Split

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Uncle Critic

As Pretty Boy Thorson & The Falling Angels were coming to an end they cranked out a few more songs, two of them there put on this split with Japan’s Worthwhile Way. Both bands are great, all four songs are great, buy this and enjoy!

‘The New Hamburger From McDonalds’ A long fucking song title…that makes me hungry. Much drinking involved here, this song rules all kinds of ways.
‘Fault Line’ A mellowed out slow song for us here, but glasses are being raised soon in excuses to drink. Drink to this song because it’s great too.
‘Lyon’ Starts out with what sounds like it’s going to be a Hank Williams song, but about thirty seconds in it speeds up, but still keeps that honky-tonk undertow.
‘Birds Sing’ A pretty bouncy song but still with a country twang in there somewhere, I’ll be on the lookout for more Worthwhile Way from now on.

1. The New Hamburger From McDonalds (PBT&TFA)
2. Fault Line (PBT&TFA)
3. Lyon (WW)
4. Birds Sing (WW)

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Releases Worth Getting June 1, 2010

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Uncle Critic

DVD/Blu-Ray:
The Wolfman
Burn Notice: Season Three
The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 8: 1955-1959
Fierce Creatures

Music:
Doom: Doom!
Rumspringer: Empty Towers
House Boat: Processing Complaints
Dead Mechanical: Addict Rhythms

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REVIEW: The Atom Age: Kill Surf City

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Uncle Critic

I first ran into The Atom Age by way of their split with the Queers, a great split, so I was looking forward to diving into the full length album, Kill Surf City out on Solidarity Recordings. First thing I have to mention here before I get into the actual album is the album cover. Best album cover of the year. A monkey in a space suit, does it get any better? I say no. Overall this is a pretty good album, there are only a few minor things I don’t care for. The main thing I’m not a big fan of is the Sax in, not all, but some of the songs. This I’m pretty sure I’m going to be in the minority on though. I think most people will be into it especially the ska kids. The album itself is solid, flows pretty well and is a pretty damn good punk rock album. I’m gonna jump around a little with the songs so try to keep up.

‘Turn It Around’ The intro on this rules, sets a good tone for the album.
‘Much Harder’ This is one of my favorite songs on the album, pretty catchy, and it has somewhat of that CA style punk that I’m a fan of.
‘One Minute To Midnight’ One of the best written songs on the album, high reply value here.
‘Rock ‘n’ Roll and Why I Preach Against It’ Starts off a little slow I think but really picks up into a pretty good song.
‘Cut and Dry’ More heavy on the CA sound, I don’t care too much for how the intro fits on this but besides that it’s pretty great.
‘No Matter What I Do’ Some catchy stuff here, you’ll learn it in no time.
‘Kill Surf City’ A little bit of a surf rock beat on it, this song rules a lot.
‘Everything I Got’ Another one of the best songs on the album this would be the song I’d throw on a sampler for the band.
‘Where To Go’ Closing it out is another great song, a slightly slower pace than most of the other song, but I wouldn’t call it a slow song.

1. Turn It Around
2. Atom Man
3. Baby Says
4. Much Harder
5. One Minute To Midnight
6. Rock ‘n’ Roll and Why I Preach Against It
7. Cut and Dry
8. Look, Watch, and Listen
9. No Matter What I Do
10. Kill Surf City
11. A.I.
12. We Become
13. Everything I Got
14. Where To Go

Get it from Asian Man Records HERE

Get Kill Surf City from Amazon HERE

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REVIEW: Nina

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Uncle Critic

After reading Nina you realize just how much of a fucked up vile human being Blag Dahlia is. However that is, of course, the reason we all love him. For those of you that do not know this is the same Blag Dahlia of the punk band the Dwarves, and if you think the Dwarves lyrics are too tame for you a little while back Blag started a venture into book writing. His first book, Armed to the Teeth With Lipstick, was more of a seedy sci-fi detective story, but Nina takes a totally different direction. Nina is the story of a teenage girl who has no remorse and makes no apologies for her actions. There’s plenty of sex in this book, but the drugs and rock n roll is lacking. Instead you get more sex, death, and a lot of cold-bloodedness. While I did like Blag’s first book better this one does have a fucked up charm to it. Only 110 pages and short chapters (which I’m a personal fan of) you should be able to breeze through it pretty quickly then take some time to let everything you just read sink in.

Get Nina from Amazon HERE

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