MISS MELVIS AND THE BUFORD PUSSER EXPERIENCE
SELF TITLED // 2009, Self-Release
Although not the greatest musicians, they do use the simple aesthetics of garage rock to express themselves, and they accomplish this admirably. I imagine young “riot grrrls” with multi-colored hair laughing and breaking bottles over someone’s car…then speeding off in some rusted out 86’ tomato-colored [...]

KID TESTED
POP ERA LAUNDRY // 2009, Self-Release
Kid Tested has managed to produce a sound that is distinct, singular, and unquestionably their own, yet reminiscent of Nirvana’s Bleach. Shawn Mishak and crew have avoided the ditch that many bands run into head on in which all of the songs sound the same. With this stated, I will [...]

OHIO SKY
APOPHIS // 2009, Self-Release
Holy Motha’ Grabbin’ Space Jams! “Apophis”, the new 10” 45rpm by the band Ohio Sky is three songs of all the music you wanted to play in high school. They are certainly not a high school band, however. The record is well produced, and sounds quite impressive sonically. It’s also appropriately [...]

A Review by Ian P.E.
 

Zombies! Yeah…right, we’ve seen them before. They chase and bite and crowd around in groups, waiting to get their heads lobbed off by an Afro-American hero. But in Jean Claude the Gumming Zombie, we have a parody on our hands…not in the sense of a genre re-visit, in fact – it’s [...]