Articles by Rob Ferraz

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  Real Kids

  Down to You

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Back from the dead and ready to rock are Boston’s Real Kids. They may not be kids anymore, but their Kinks meets punk style still sou...

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  Reset

  No Limits

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  The new album by Pennywise, err, Lagwagon, no wait a minute… Reset is chock fulla all those prosaic hooks and melodies ringing throug...

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  Smak!

  Pull

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Four 30-something Edmontonians play Clash-inspired punk rock on their second record in two years. In a somewhat interesting twist on the pu...

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  Starpoint Electric

  Bad Directions

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  The debut record of Chapel Hill’s Starpoint Electric borrows bits and pieces of what preceded it, particularly Archers of Loaf and Sm...

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  Undecided

  Undecided

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  This is the first Canadian band to grace the roster of America’s premier Christian rock label. Being from Winnipeg, they seem to have...

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  Various

  Cinema Beer Belly

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  This is the fourth volume of the Hopeless CD/video comp and it’s quite an impressive line-up. A good mix of bands and styles with 20...

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  Visitors

  Sniffing Glue

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Texan punkers the Visitors take on everything from skinheads, to their hometown of Dallas, to Fugazi’s Ian Mackaye on their debut alb...

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  d.b.s.

  Some Boys Got It, Most Men Don’t

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  They’ve come a long way from Tales From the Crib, and on this, their fourth album, they’ve come up with some excellent material...