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Gemma Ray – “It’s A Shame About Gemma Ray”
Posted in Reviews on 12 August 2010
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If you ever catch Gemma Ray with her band, you’ll notice how close her music is to Sixties Pop – to a very dark version of Sixties Girl Pop, that is. Chances are though that you will see the British artist live playing music the way she does on “It’s A Shame About…” – solo and very raw – because Gemma usually only plays with her band in the UK and on the continent, while she goes solo overseas.
But even though her shows are solo a lot, this album – …

3 Kisses – “Lethal Love Addiction (Batteries not included)”
Posted in Reviews on 10 August 2010
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There was a time when good, threatless punk rock (if this is not a contradiction in itself) had its moment. Green Day’s “Dookie” is one of the finest examples of this style – an album that is heavy and catchy, aggressive but not angry. An album that makes you want to do things: not smashing windows but riding your bicycle or your skateboard. “Sunday morning punk,” that is what I call this music.
3 Kisses call their songs “Texas Party Punk” which is pretty much the same idea. It’s music for …

The Pack a.d. – We Kill Computers
Posted in Reviews on 31 May 2010
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Chances are that you’ve heard The Pack a.d. before. The duo from Vancouver played an impressive 157 gigs last year, even made it to Europe with No Means No, and played at Santo’s Party House In NYC this March. They still found the time to record an album, entitled ‘We Kill Computers’, their third release after the self-published ‘Tintype’ and 2008’s ‘Funeral Mixtapes’.
‘We Kill Computers’ is a bit of a surprise: Even though the duo consists of a drummer and a guitar player (the standard line-up these days, it seems), …