Articles by Bill Adams

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  Aberfeldy

  Young Forever

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Aberfeldy can’t possibly be for real. Young Forever is the debut of a Scottish band that wishes they were a band from the American West coa...

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  Blues Traveler

  On The Rocks

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Of all of the bar bands that got label deals in the second wave of the alternative music signing spree (i.e. Blind Melon, Gin Blossoms and...

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  Buffseeds

  Picture Show

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  After Picture Show, Devinshire’s Buffseeds will probably spend the next couple of records distancing themselves from the barrage of Coldpla...

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  Ceremonial Snips

  Fuck The Pain, Bring The Noise EP

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  How can doing something as simple as mixing hardcore’s urgency with ska’s inherent pogo and horn section sound as fresh as on the Ceremonia...

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  El Centro

  Alto

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Ever wonder what it would sound like if someone took Social Distortion’s Mike Ness and castrated him? Someone must have done just that and...

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  Forty Fives

  High Life High Volume

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Remember garage rock? Not the pappy crap being peddled on mainstream rock radio, the kind of music that was the by-product of the unmitigat...

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  Betty Moon

  Live At The Rectory

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  On Betty Moon’s newest EP, what was once a brilliant idea is reborn: harnessing arena rock anthemia to punk’s sense of urgency to create a...

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  Murder Thy Maker

  If I Die First…

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  In listening to If I Die First…, it’s impossible not to think of the old cliché "something evil this way comes.” Not that If I Die is formu...