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BARRY THOMPSON
Latest Articles
Jeffree Star | Cupcakes Taste Like Violence
Popsicle (2008)
Why am I listening to this pitch-corrected-to-death excrement when we should all be watching Jeffree Star's Cunt of Love (or something to that effect) on VH1?
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| December 02, 2008
Psych out
The depunking of Darker My Love
Conversations about music can easily turn into conversations about geography.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| November 24, 2008
Punk buccaneer
Jonee Earthquake rumbles below the surface
Jonee Earthquake rumbles below the surface
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| November 24, 2008
Mob rules
Bang Camaro gang up for round II
Bang Camaro gang up for round II
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| November 11, 2008
O’Death | Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin
Kemado (2008)
O’Death, from the rural backwater town of New York City, are a little bit country and a lot more calamitous power-folk.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| October 28, 2008
Cellars by strobe light
We Are The Seahorses, Killspree Burlesque, and Real Life Time Machines at an “undisclosed” basement location
The ensuing batshit hysteria of this gathering was probably as close as one can realistically and safely get to a temporary autonomous zone.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| October 24, 2008
Scenic route to Hell
Easter Bloodhounds take their sweet time destroying you
When it comes to goals a band can strive to achieve, having an excuse to get hammered and make noise with your buddies is surely among the most practical.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| October 20, 2008
Soup to completely nuts
Rise Against at T.T. the Bear's, October 7, 2008
I half-expected Rise Against to play their obligatory hits for 20 minutes and say “goodnight”; instead, they tore it up for well over an hour.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| October 15, 2008
Star Fucking Hipsters | Until We’re Dead
Fat Wreck Chords (2008)
Of course, one could argue that anything called Star Fucking Hipsters gets an automatic three stars.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| October 08, 2008
Sweet release
The Urinals can’t hold it in any longer
I don’t want to waste your time waxing philosophical about the problematic logic behind qualifying music “good” or “bad,” much less pontificating on whether “sophisticated punk” is an oxymoron.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| October 08, 2008
Sex on wheels
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult just never get old
Subcultures all need their touchstones: entities that over time assume the stature of full-fledged institutions.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| September 16, 2008
Satan's little helpers
Thrash legends Wargasm only 99 percent pure evil
Everyone knows that metal is the most evil of all music, what with all those references to the occult, destruction, drinking, the color black, and long hair.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| September 10, 2008
Painfully sweet
The Toothaches are a gas
Ask the same boring question enough times to enough people and you’ll get a not-so-boring answer.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| September 02, 2008
The kids are all right
Teenage kicks courtesy of Mindwalk Blvd
There is an outstanding possibility that your high-school band sucked.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| August 26, 2008
In and out of fashion
Paradosaurus Wreck invades the Dilboy VFW
Something felt eerie about scruffy, squirrelly Rhode Island trio Deer Tick as they entertained the bleep out of the densely occupied VFW.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| August 19, 2008
Smokin’ rock
Leftover Crack at Club Lido, August 7, 2008
With an all-star cast of Choking Victim, Morning Glory, and F-Minus alums, NYC’s Leftover Crack have a sometimes problematic knack for jacking adrenaline levels.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| August 19, 2008
Refuse Resist
Mind: Yourself | Rodent Popsicle
With almost every song making its point and ending in well under three minutes, Mind: Yourself isn’t out to waste anyone’s time.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| August 19, 2008
AOR with ADD
The Coke Dares take a minute to rock you
I’m told there’s an epidemic of shrinking attention spans, yet our demand for rock remains unchanged.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| August 14, 2008
Pariah Beat
Pariah Beat Radio | Vital
Pariah Beat Radio might have benefitted from some tactful restraint.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| July 29, 2008
All action, no talk
Mouth Sewn Shut speak louder than words
At the end of civilization, there is Wonderland.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| July 15, 2008
Future perfect
Ladytron at the Paradise, June 30, 2008
If you stood close to the stage, your torso bones rattled along with the backbeat.
By:
BARRY THOMPSON
| July 07, 2008
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