GOD AND TEXAS History Volume One 1992

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Noise rock band, based in Athens/Columbus, Ohio area from 1989 to 1992 then Chicago, Illinois form 1992 to 1994.

 

Tracklist

1	Bread And Circuses	5:26
2	Seas Of	3:45
3	Amalgamator	3:51
4	Hell On Earth	3:22
5	Mask And Glove	2:31
6	Join Or Die	4:18
7	Bastille	3:10
8	Trip To The Negative	3:23
9	Black Death	4:23
10	1979 Under God	4:31
11	1066	3:15
12	Then And Now	2:38
13	Mood For Self	3:13
14	Indulgence	1:45
15	Hope For You And I	3:13
16	Tear Ourselves Apart	3:09
17	Grist For The Mill	2:50
18	Shithouse	0:18
19	Purge	4:12
20	Metalcide	3:22
21	Colossus	1:30
22	Slowburn	5:34
23	Beneath The Wings	2:52
24	At My End	3:27

LICK Breech 1995

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TEEN HEROES Audio Satellite 1998

 

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The Teen Heroes Biography by Jason Ankeny

A product of the contemporary Orange County music scene, alternative power-popsters the Teen Heroes debuted in 1998 with Audio Satellite.

 

Tracklist

1

Who Are You

2		I Can't
3		1001 & 1
4		Change For The Better
5		Backseat
6		Missing Piece
7		Radio Listener
8		Try Me
9		Without A Dream
10		Neapolitan Girl
11		Now You Know
12		Sweet Dreams: The Further Adventures Of Captain Goodnight

 

ZIPGUN Baltimore 1993

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Punk rock band from Seattle, Washington. Formed in 1991 by former Derelicts guitarist Neil Rodgers and former Obituaries drummer Dan Cunneen. Blake Edwards of Empty Records saw one of Zipguns rehearsals and immediately asked the band to do a single.

In 1993, Mark Wooten quit the band and was replaced by bassist Andy Sheen. In late 1993 Sheen quit the band and was replaced by former Derelicts bassist Ian Dunsmore.

ZIPGUN broke up in 1994 and then reunited in 1996 for a single show at The Breakroom in Seattle with original bassist, Mark Wooten.

Zipgun released three singles and two full-length albums on Pacific Northwest independent record label, Empty Records and several other singles on various labels. The band toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada and appeared in the Doug Pray film Hype!, a documentary chronicling the 1990s Seattle Grunge music scene.

Currently, Rogers plays in Communist Eyes and The Derelicts (reformed in 2017). Clarke continues to play and record with the Seattle punk band The Burnz. Cunneen plays drums for Roxbury Saints and the Perkins Coie Band.  

 

Tracklist

1		Long Hot Kiss	3:18
2		Home At Last	1:58
3		Just The Way It Sounds	2:43
4		Highball	2:28
5		Through The Roof	2:27
6		Shadey	4:04
7		4th Prize	2:39
8		I Can't Wait	2:32
9		Missionary Miracle	2:05
10		In The Wire	2:49
11		Holiday	4:39
12		Hades	4:10

 

SNUG Caroline EP 1997

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THIRD STONE Hack 1995

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grunge

(thank you, Reb!)


Tracklist

1		Worms
2		Last Words
3		Mortal Coil
4		Soft Spot
5		Nothing
6		Mosh Pit Riot
7		I.O.W.A.
8		Sixteenfive
9		Tomorrow
10		Smeg
11		The Sting

SWEET WATER self titled 1993

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Biography

by Chris True

A Seattle, WA based band that got rolling just as that city's musical revolution of the early 1990s was taking hold -- their first show happened to be with a band (also making its first live appearance) named Mookie Blaylock, who would go on to find a bit of success as Pearl Jam -- Sweet Water managed to ply their trade through the waning years of the alt rock movement before being felled by the dreaded "hiatus" in 1999. Originally known as S.G.M., Sweet Water rode the wave of interest in the Pacific Northwest's musical offerings, and landed a major-label deal with Atlantic in 1992. The self-titled offering (not their first, however. The band put forth an independent release called Ter in 1990.) was a moderate success, but nowhere near that of other acts from the scene, i.e., » Read more

Tracklist

1	Crawl	4:23
2	Everything Will Be All Right	4:14
3	Head Down	3:43
4	Sleep	4:00
5	Stripped Down	4:47
6	Where Has The Day Gone	7:03
7	King Of '79	3:49
8	Losing	3:44
9	Can't Say No	5:12
10	Feel Good	3:25
11	Like A Child	4:44
12	[Untitled]	1:24

SMACK DAB Majestic Root 1994

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SMACK DAB
This quirky Brooklyn combo was formed at the urging of Wm. Berger (here playing drums), who recognized creative sparkle in modern dancer Linda Hagood and encouraged her to take up guitar and songwriting. The duo was joined by bassist Alec Stephens on Queen Crab, a wonderful collection of light, idiosyncratic material like "Big Planet," "Lucky" and "Dancing Uvula." With a cartoony Southern voice so high-pitched that many reckoned it to be contrived (it's not), Hagood fits in with the love rock of Beat Happening and the Mad Scene but shows more musical ambition. Contributions to tribute albums for the Fall and Love around this time showed Smack Dab's versatility and humor.

After Berger left to concentrate on Uncle Wiggly, newcomer J. Z. Barrell (ex-Alter Boys) brought his studio engineering prowess and add instrumental versatility to the fuller, more mature Majestic Root. Where Queen Crab was a fanciful one-woman show with excellent support, Majestic Root shows Hagood's positive reflections on love and life in a more adult light, with subdued tones and more intricate arrangements. The agile band covers a great deal of sultry, arty and troubled ground under her indelible stylistic stamp. Stephens exited Smack Dab in 1994 for a career slinging guitar with Railroad Jerk and was suitably replaced by Kansas City's Jeffrey J. Jensen, a Jonathan Richman fanatic.

Confusingly, there is an eponymous 2007 album by a second group called Smack Dab, this one an unrelated trio containing Spanish musician Paco Loco, Steve Wynn and his wife and drummer, Linda Pitmon.

[Ian Christe]

LALALAND Nude 1998

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MAN WILL SURRENDER self titled 1997

 hardcore out of California

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Tracklist

1	Tim
2	Climbing Out
3	Repressed
4	Darkroom
5	Lullaby
6	Hate In Gold
7	Castrato
8	Change
9	Open Up
10	Free Lesson
11	Let It Slide

ROADS TO SPACE TRAVEL Ballad Jazz Waltz 1999

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Roads to Space Travel Biography by Rick Kutner

Taking their name from the 1930s book of the same name about the possibility of space colonization the indie rock trio Roads to Space Travel formed in 1995. The nucleus of the group came together when Roman Kuebler convinced college pal Tim Baier to relocate back to their hometown of Baltimore in order to start a band after the two had recently graduated from Villanova University in Philadelphia. The two guitarists recruited bassist Greg Preston and drummer Andy Laughland and played their first show in March of 1996. Not long after Laughland decided to call it quits and the group recruited veteran Baltimore indie rock drummer Adam Cooke, who had done time in local indie rock units Helakopter and Science Kit. Shortly after Cooke joined the fold, Preston decided to part ways with the group, and Kuebler moved over to bass, making the group a trio. Kuebler handled most of the vocals, while guitarist Baier sang on a few tracks.

Initially the group was inspired by the quirky and inventive guitar work of Chapel Hill's Polvo and Archers of Loaf, as well as local Baltimore bands Candy Machine with their heavy Gang of Four and Fall influences as well as long time Charm City underground staples Lungfish. But the trio found its biggest inspiration from Norfolk Virginia art-punk transplants Buttsteak, with their quirky-jerky rhythms and jagged melodies. Guitarist Baier also added analogue keyboard loops to the trio's sound that at times evoked the sound and spirit of Ohio art-punks Brainiac.

The group's first release was a split 7" with Science Kit for local indie label Ambiguous City Records in 1998. Later on that same year, the band went into the studio again and recorded their self-titled debut for Amish Records. The following year saw the release of another 7," this time for Washington D.C. indie punk label Desoto Records; this was followed by their second full-length Ballad Jazz Waltz also on Amish.

The trio completed five tours up and down the east coast and some of the midwest, including a joint tour with D.C.'s Burning Airlines. With its wry and geeky sense of humor, the band came up with a novel idea that has yet to be duplicated in the world of indie or mainstream rock. The "Balti-Tour", which essentially entailed the group booking two straight weeks of shows at every dive bar in Baltimore they could get a gig at. The group thought it would be a great way for their fans to go to different clubs around the city, and for them to play with other bands. But it turned out to be futile, as the group's fans generally waited until they played at the "cool" club and skipped the rest of the tour. At its best the "Balti-Tour" achieved its objective, and at its worst, found the band breaking into loft spaces and getting kicked out of public squares. The band did the tour for three consecutive years in a row from 1997-1999. Roads to Space Travel went as far as making tour shirts, screened posters, and backstage laminates for the local tour but regretfully according to Kubler, "No satin jackets, I wish we had."

 

 

 
Tracklist

1		When I Gave Up	3:37
2		Ballad / Jazz / March	4:01
3		The Reference And Hurry Up	1:30
4		The Phrase What You Say	3:49
5		Is Alright	2:25
6		No. 1 Part	3:47
7		Roads To Nowhere	1:17
8		Birds In Trees	4:38
9		That's Not Traffic Roar	2:42
10		Numbers	3:08
11		The Record High	2:11
12		Unraveling	6:02

 

THE HOT MONKEY More Than Lazy 1996

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Tracklist

1	Favors
2	That Certain Thing
3	4 Eyes
4	Steam
5	Wheel
6	Sometimes
7	Monty Carlo
8	Hide-N-Seek
9	Wait Up
10	Dandy Lion
11	Other Ideas
12	The Strap
13	Sooner
14	I Won't Tell
15	Meat Truck
16	Hours
17	Think I Love You
18	Dinosaur Angel
19	Sain

 

CIAO BELLA 1 1997

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Biography

by Jason Ankeny

Alameda, CA-based indie-pop duo Ciao Bella teamed singers/songwriters Mario Hernandez and Jamie McCormick, longtime friends who first joined forces under the name Teeny Hi-Fi for a 1992 single, "Weekend Go." Appearing live on only the rarest of occasions, the duo spent the next several years collaborating in their home studio, finally releasing their first material as Ciao Bella on a 1996 EP on the Winnipeg-based Endearing label. The full-length 1 followed on March Records in 1997, earning the band a worshipful following among indie-pop fanatics, but after a handful of subsequent compilation tracks Ciao Bella went on hiatus; McCormick went on to produce sessions for acts including the Aislers Set and the Fairways, while Hernandez recorded under the alias From Bubblegum to Sky. 

Tracklist 

1	In	2:13
2	How Low	2:50
3	Old School Digital Watch	2:43
4	Dropped Once	2:55
5	Meet The Great LIfe	2:03
6	Another Pill	2:13
7	Astronauts In Love	3:37
8	Details From The Deep End	1:51
9	We Were Always Too Young	2:07
10	Sink	2:50
11	I've Should !?	1:51
12	Brown Make-Up	3:58
13	Party Song	1:49
14	Feeling Low	4:12

 

SUPER 8 Super 8 1996

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Super 8 Review by Alex Henderson

Known for his work with Everlast and others who have been associated with Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate operation, Bob Khalil, aka Bronx Style Bob, is generally considered a West Coast hip-hopper. But in fact, some of his work has been outside of hip-hop altogether. You won't hear a trace of hip-hop influence on this debut album by Super 8, an L.A. band that Bronx Style sang lead for in the '90s. This disc falls somewhere between the soul-minded retro-rock of Lenny Kravitz and the Seattle grunge of Pearl Jamand Stone Temple Pilots. Though some of the songs are fairly psychedelia-influenced (especially "Railroad" and "Going Nowhere"), no one will mistake this CD for a late-'60s or early-'70s recording--Rick Parashar's production techniques are very '90s, and John O'Brien's guitar playing has '90s alternative rock written all over it. A generally decent and sometimes excellent illustration of Bob's ability to function outside of a hip-hop setting, Super 8 should have done well. But unfortunately, the CD fell through the cracks.

Tracklist

1	Pain
2	Nothing
3	King Of The World
4	Pills
5	April 19th
6	Going Nowhere
7	Mountain
8	Heavens Don't Cry
9	Fire
10	Natural
11	Railroad
12	Washed Away
13	Here We Go Again
14	Fly Away