Articles by Steve English

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  Trews

  Den of Thieves

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005

  Despite only having one stylistic gear (hint: it’s the one labelled "rockin’!”), the Trews’ 2003 debut became quite the little big deal, sp...

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  Tsar

  Band-Girls-Money

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005

  There are over 2500 artists listed in The All Music Guide to Rock, and the influence of almost all of them is dutifully referenced somewher...

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  Breaking Point

  Beautiful Disorder

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  Wind-Up signees Breaking Point are a quartet of post-grungy Tennesseans whose very existence besmirches the hard-living and hard-loving rep...

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  Cherrybomb

  Speed of Light

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  At some point, Hollywood’s relentless intellectual property recycling program will cough up a quickie remake of Fast Times at Ridgemont Hig...

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  Elevator Division

  Years

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  Elevator Division are what UK dream-rockers Elbow would have sounded like had they grown up in the American Midwest and been reared on a st...

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  Freak Accident

  The Freak Accident

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  In his old band, irritable Bay Area noiseniks Victims Family, Ralph Spight smothered his pop instincts under a thick porridge of art-damage...

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  Hadley

  Seventy-One the Beautiful

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  Like cockroaches, Volvos and Keith Richards, grunge seems destined to outlive us all. With nary a grumbling heroin lament, look-at-me guita...

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  Hurst

  Wanderlust

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  Brand New History, Econoline Crush’s third and evidently final album, found the band tinkering with an increasingly commercial strain of in...