Articles by Craig Daniels

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  Various

  Instrobeat-2001 Canada West

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  While Eastern Canada might be in a bit of a drought as far as instrumental surf bands go, the West is apparently lousy with them. Maybe it...

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  Gas Huffer

  The Rest Of Us

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  I’ve never really been big on Gas Huffer’s vaguely rockabilly/pop-punk sound, and The Rest of Us, their first full length on Estrus, contin...

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  Priests

  Streetwalker

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Rochester roughies the Priests are back with their second full-length album, Streetwalker. It’s more of their raw, creepy, early Makers/See...

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  Sights

  Are You Green?

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  These guys look and sound like the nerdy little brothers of fellow Motor City rockers the Go. The Sights come out of the gate all lo-fi ret...

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  Soledad Brothers

  Steal Your Soul And Dare Your Spirit To Move

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Part of the blues punk movement, Toledo’s Soledad Brothers go heavy on the blues and light on the punk with their genre-specific, bass-less...

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  Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

  Plastic Fang

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  After the boring "connect the beats” exercise that was Acme, JSBX took three years to work at redeeming themselves with a new album. The re...

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  Chronics

  Make You Move

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

  The Chronics may look a lot less glamorous than label-mates the Flaming Sideburns, but their Nordic garage-soul is coming from the same pla...

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  Falls River Fiends

  Falls River Fiends

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

  This record promises "100 percent punk rock’n’fucking roll, muthas!" and it pretty much delivers on that claim. The sound here is straight-...