Hey all--heading out on vacay! See you on 9/19.

I wasn't really right and I wasn't really wrong. Do You Have A Formal Dining Area? is 1990s af, but it's not grunge. It's more like...

There are far more layers of irony here than any one band should have. We've got the punning band name, which actually counts double...

Suddenly that joke about the band being time travelers doesn't seem like a joke anymore. Ant Farm absolutely sounds like a lost 1980s...

I don't care that there's a 1997 copyright date, I look at those three guys and the only thing I can see is "1980s College Rock." No...

I was not right and this was not good. It's not art rock or freak folk or anything else that I would've guessed, as evidenced by the fact...

K, we're gonna start this one off with a data dump, because a lot of basic info is readily available from the packaging. Vinyl Williams...

I was exactly correct: Industrial metal, with all the influences I predicted. But there's so much depth and variety even within...

Well, we've got the best cheap CGI figure available in 2k1, which means it basically looks like what James Cameron was able to make with...

So as suspected, Operation Pick A Generic Rock Album I'll Have A Hard Time Getting Through was a failure; this is indeed a record of...

For this post I randomly grabbed a disc out of the stack of CDs I've got ready to go for the blog, and I have to say this is not what I...

There are a lot of dark colors in the artwork, yet it feels warm and inviting. Which makes it perfect for this album, which is...

Even if I didn't love comics books--if you haven't checked in lately, there's a lot of comic art like this these days--the art would've...

Called it: This is straight up melodic rock & roll. Tuneful, nice harmonies, energetic but never all that loud, you know how melodic...

A fear of absolutely everything, huh? These days I consider that a healthy, well-adjusted response to life, but in 2001 it was just a...

Hey I was right! And what's more, it's really good! OK, so only two songs are full-on, nothing-else-you-could-call-them freak folk: You...

Ayo, what up birds? I could've posted nothing but the first track title and it would be obvious why this disc caught my eye. I mean come...

I was wrong, it's not ska. It's also not distinctive, catchy, or anything else that makes me glad I picked it up. Left End Girlfriend...

First thing that jumps out at me is a mad decent sense of humor. The cover takes a party time template and colors it in with a sparsely...

This is what I get for saying "I know" about something I've never listened to. CFP did not sound at all like what I thought it would. ...