Articles by Rob Ferraz

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  Stinking Dogs

  Downtown on 34th

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

  Why is it that bad band names are endemic to punk rock? The genre’s history reads like a road map of ill-thought out monikers: Sex Pi...

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  Snatch Bandits

  Only a Million Beers?

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

  Then there’s Vancouver’s self-proclaimed “Dictators of Drunk Rock,” the Snatch Bandits. Coming atcha like a stream...

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  Vaginal Croutons

  Eightball Stench

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

  Johnny Jackoff, Spongy Crackers, Brutus, and Harry Sacks compose members 35 through 38 of Montreal’s Vaginal Croutons. After going th...

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  Various

  Johnny Hanson Presents: Puck Rock Vol.2

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

  Twenty bands put in about two-and-a-half periods worth of hockey punk guaranteed to bring out the goon in everyone. As with any team, you&#...

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  Various

  Noise Kills Punk Dead

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

  The title sums this up — noise in every possible form, distortion, the same Japanese phrase repeated over and over, chickens, traffic...

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  Assertion

  A Great Refusal

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

  The self-proclaimed “volatile duo” of Chad and Rabo, from Vancouver by way of Fredericton NB, provide listeners with an interes...

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  Astream

  Jumps Giggles and Shouts

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

  Swedish melodic punkers play 28 minutes of NoFX/Bad Religion style foot-tappers on their second full-length. High points include a song abo...

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  Battershell

  Luv Punks

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

  Don’t let the title fool you because, with the exception of a few songs, this New York trio aren’t the most punk-sounding band...