Articles by Mike Chilton
Kramdens
Quiet Collision
PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003
Even if you have heard the Kramdens and for some unknown reason don't like their fun and eclectic album, you've got to give this one a chan...
Mercenaries
The Last Resident in a Tourist Town
PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003
It's records like this one that just make me wonder if the great music god in the sky really intended humans to sing over music. Front-man...
Espadrille
Swimeret
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002
The new trio from Die Monster Die's Alice Cohen is a bad copy of everything that was only tenuously entertaining about girl-fronted alterna...
Nik Freitas
Here's Laughing at You
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002
Definitely not the recording you would expect from the world's leading skateboard photographer (Nik is a photographer for Thrasher Magazine...
Havalina
Space Love & Bullfighting
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002
Space Love & Bull Fighting sounds like the lost album by Black Francis and the Pixies. Latin nuances, surf-y western guitar and keyboards,...
Keepsake
Black Dress in a B Movie
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002
Summery anthemic power-pop confections make up most of this effort. The type of listening you might find in most teenagers' collections, if...
Kumquat
Indie Rock 4evr
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002
Even though this San Franciscan quartet's debut full-length stylistically hovers tentatively between the noisy feedback-driven moody pop of...
Rubyhorse
Rise
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2002
Strong radio-friendly fodder that beckons to the better elements of Hothouse Flowers and Collective Soul, this Irish quintet's major-label...
