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Long Beach, CA's Maxeen fuses punk, new wave, and power pop with tremendous finesse on its self-titled debut. Drawing on influences like the Pixies and U2 while corralling its own sound, the outfit frequently conjures up visions of the Police on amphetamines. In fact, frontman and bassist Tom Bailey delivers his lyrics with the same type of wiseass exuberance that Sting used to craft Outlandos d'Amour and Reggatta de Blanc back in the day. If the songs on Maxeen seem derivative at times, they also embody a uniqueness, thanks to drummer Jay Skowronek and guitarist Shannon McMurray's charged playing and Bailey's frazzled lyrical outlook. America's children are desensitized to violence on the explosive "Please"; an Internet girlfriend gets the boot on the marvelously executed, worldbeat-steeped "Delete Lola"; and the music biz gets the middle finger on "Strangers." Veteran producer Ed Stasium gives the record a vibrant, punchy feel, but above all else, the members of Maxeen -- together just a year at the time they committed these dozen rockers to tape -- thrive on their own chemistry. With nary a clunker on the disc, the result is one of 2003's most auspicious debuts. ~ John D. Luerssen
Recorded at Eagle Sound, Durango, Colorado and Kozytone, Bayfield, Colorado between June & July 2003.
Maxeen: Tom Bailey (vocals, bass); Shannon McMurray (guitar); Jay Skowronek (drums).
CMJ (11/17/03, p.8) - "With a healthy dose of self-satisfying '80s ambition intact, Maxeen's self-titled debut presents a young pop-rock band with a big sound, willing to take risks..." Purchase Maxeen CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Spitalfield Remember Right Now CD (2003)
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Spitalfield are back with Remember Right Now, once again posing the musical question, "How melodic can melodic punk get and still reasonably be considered punk?" Of course, the only rational response to that question is "Who cares?," which is why we're not even going to discuss the glockenspiel that keeps popping up on the bridge during "Those Days You Felt Alive." Instead we'll focus on those irresistible hooks, those delirious harmonies, those big fat crunchy guitars, those sometimes-just-a-bit-too-dewy-eyed lyrics ("It's a brand new day/You've got someone to be/And that someone is you"). Given their age, it's no surprise that these guys seem mainly obsessed with questions about what life holds in store for them ("Stolen from Some Great Writer," "In the Same Lifetime," "Am I Ready?") and the incomprehensible vagaries of romantic love ("Make My Heart Attack," ...
| | General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners CD (2005) Digipak
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The methodology went like this: former Faith No More/Mr. Bungle/Tomahawk frontman Mike Patton sends hip-hopping turntable masters the X-Ecutioners a bunch of oddball records, then the X-Ecutioners create "sound blocks" out of the albums and send them back to Patton for final tweaking and song-building. Two years in the making, the collaboration feels more like a Patton project than an equal-footing outing, but that doesn't narrow the sound down much, does it? On one hand, there's Patton's penchant for the aggressively avant-garde. On the other, there's his not-as-wild-as-you'd-think appearance on Handsome Boy Modeling School's White People. Ridiculously long and cryptic song titles might point to a crazed, "out there" experience, but General Patton vs. the X-Ecutioners is surprisingly crisp and funky over half of the time, and it's a good guess the X-Ecutioners were the ones to bring the noise. Crazed turntable workouts that recall the crew's greatest underground DJ battle tapes appear throughout the album. They sound untouched for the most part, leading the listener to believe ...
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There's something about a post-millennium album cover that features a giant blue-horned minion of Satan in pre-pounce with an illuminated crystal ball in its leathery hand that simply warms the soul, and the fact that it adorns a record called Master of the Moon can mean only one thing: Dio. Unlike many in the aging metal community, Ronnie James Dio still possesses the same powerful voice that fueled the genre through its late-'70s and '80s heydays, and the reigning dark prince of Elfdom and two-time Black Sabbath frontman is still capable of writing a killer song or two. MOTM resembles earlier works like Last in Line and Sacred Heart in its ability to buffer those one or two great tracks with seven or eight forgettable ones. Luckily, it's the first one out of the gate, "One More for the Road," that packs the biggest wallop. Similar in attack to classics like "We Rock" and "Stand Up and Shout," it sets a breakneck pace for a record that gives up just minutes after the firing of the start gun. What follows is a series of midtempo rockers outfitted with RJD's generic fantasy lyrics about dreams, evil, and being "stronger than the wind," which flirt with creative arrangements and forward-thinking ...
| | Live From Austin Texas - Outlaw Country CD (2006) Digipak
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