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RECORDS GET REVIEWED WOVEN BONES
Woven Bones is a trio out of Austin, TX who play a stripped down, no frills rock and roll that’s just as likely to take on a psychedelic beach bum beat as get sopped up in a reverby swamp-land, stompy stew. The nine songs on In and Out and Back Again stick to that basic script and the result is as liable to leave a snarly buzz in your brain as a ditchweed fatty. That’s what it does for me anyway. This is music for crappy amps and basements that smell like cigarettes and puke. Those particular smells may not have been on hand at the band’s Empty Bottle show on June 24th, but perhaps there was still a trace enough sent of stale cat urine wafting through the air to get people in the mood—Joey T. Germ RAYON BEACH
Rayon Beach concoct a highly lustered, if not brightly sheened psychy garage sound on this six song EP. Pitching their tent as well in the Austin HoZac camp, Beach bunnies Tom Sutherland and Mike Naccarato set the tone early with side one's "Wave Pool Ether" but let it get even weirder with the trippy manipulations on the side closing "Dust Will Never Sleep." That all gets outdone by the flipside when the boys bring it to a boil on the raving "Comet Songs" before turning down the heat to let the brain simmer in "Jacuzzi Limo Explosion"—a song which, if someone were to tell me was an early Modern Lovers demo, I'd believe them. In summation, Rayon Beach will knock your memory teeth out and make you forget you ever had them—Joey T. Germ CLASSIC WOODROWS THE WOODROWS
That's the Woodows' way of saying "put up or shut up," and that's exactly what our boys do on this 15 minute blast of pure punk rock energy. Features some early Woodrow classics like: "Weed Bag" plus 23 more! |
COMIC ARTIST
UK comics creator, Simon Gane, got his start in the underground punk and comix/zine scene in the 1990s. Those years spent drawing comics and interviewing friends' bands helped Simon develop his easily identifiable and unique style. Read the Reglar Wigar Interview. ACTOR/COMEDIAN
It's a bird. It's a plane. No, wait a minute, it's Comedian & Actor, Matt Champagne. We managed to catch up with Mr. Personality to find out what life is like in LaLaLand for a working stiff of an actor. Read the Reglar Wiglar Interview. REGLAR WIGLAR BAND SPOTLIGHT
Dinero, everybody wants some. It doesn't matter which side of the border you're on. We caught up with Fort Collins, CO's own Dinero band and asked them a few questions about just what makes them tick. Read the Reglar Wiglar Interview, dagummit. THE ADVENTURES OF
Written by BIF LEBEAU in the late 1980s before his mysterious disappearance, The Adventures of Jim Bob & Pencilneck chronicles the lives and misfortunes of two American kids growing up in the Heartland. The Reglar Wiglar will be running this exclusive serial in its entirety. READ CHAPTER ONE
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THIS WEEK IN ROCK
This week in Rock is enjoying a one week vacation from the rock. Please check back next week.
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DUNC THE PUNK Dunc the Punk sods off! JUSTIN BEIBER
ROLLING STONES
OASIS
Dunc was supposed to review these records, but quite frankly he can't be arsed. He has no interest in listening to a bunch of men with more wrinkles than his own ballbag. He has no idea who Justin Beiber is, but assumes he is a moronic numpty who gets pre-teen girls wet. And Oasis are a band with egos inversely proportional to any talent they may have ever had. No. Dunc is only interested in the World Cup. The single greatest event in the fucking world. Even when all the fans are unaware that vuvuzelas sound worse than Satan's farts and England are playing like toilet, Dunc can't get enough of it. This one is particularly good, with the Germans (sorry Justin— Jewmans) losing to Serbia and the Frogs fighting with each other. (When the French fight each other, who surrenders first?) Oh, and Dunc wants all you septics to know that we gave you that goal to make up for the BP farrago. So we're even now, right? |
DUNC THE PUNK He's Dunc the Punk and he's pissed! ALL TIME LOW
Horrible fucking manufactured cunts playing dog-shit fucking pop-punk for shit-for-brains fucking gibbons on a sellout fucking music channel. Without fucking electricity. No fucking thanks. MARIAH CAREY
A skid-mark on the adams of humanity. LIL WAYNE
So Lil' Wayne reckons he's gonna pick the world up and drop it on my fucking head? The only thing that Wayne's rock rebirth is putting in Dunc's loaf is violent thoughts of disemboweling Lil' Lil' Wayne with a scrotal clamp and a rusty chainsaw. Dunc's Guide To
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From RW 1.2 Comic Artist
Battle-hardened in the mini-comics trenches of the mid 90s, artist Jef Czekaj has found a whole new audience: the kids of the kids who used to read his indie comics! Read the Reglar Wiglar interview. Garage Psychos
Formed as the surf rock combo Hodads in the early '00s, then resurrected nearly nine years later as The Mediums, this quartet play 60s style psychedelic garage rock like nobody's business. Read a soggy post-show interview! REGLAR WIGLAR BAND SPOTLIGHT
Star Reporter C. Bales poses some insightful and provocative questions to Chicago's Coupleskate band in our new band spotlight feature. Read the interview immediately! |
CLASSIC WOODROWS
THE WOODROWS
Run, Woodrow, Run! Good advice if you're a Woodrow. The classic first album from this scruffy punk rock troupe. The year was 1980 and punk rock was in the White House. Running time is only 10 minutes, but that's enough for 30 raunchy Woodrow gems, Including: "Piss Pants" plus 23 more! Visit the THE WOODROWS CASSETTE REVIEWS
by JOEY GERM T.S.O.L.
Few 80s bands went through as many stylistic somersaults as the OC's T.S.O.L. Melodic hardcore, gothic guitar rock, hard rock and metal where all tackled with a fluctuating line-up and a loyal fan base. By the tim this reissue came out in 1988, The True Sounds of Liberty were dressing like the rest of the L.A. glam poseurs who were starting to chart at that time. Admittedly, T.S.O.L. had a much harder sound than your Poisons and Cinderellas... Read the Whole Review R.O.T.A.
Rights of the Accused started out as a juvenile hardcore band in Chicago in the early 80s. That's not to say that their subject matter was juvenile (it was) but these snotty punkers were barely out of puberty when they formed in 1982. Their 1984 Innocence 7" is considered a classic of early Chicago hardcore. Read the Whole Review
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DUNC THE PUNK In the interest of keeping things interesting, we here at the Reglar Wiglar Record Review Dept. are always on the lookout for a new way to kill off a couple of reviews, and what better way to do that than to give them to a real life Brit punk rocker? So here he is, he's Dunc the Punk and he's pissed* LADY GAGA
How do you make Lady Gaga cry? Poker Face. Right? Wrong! The real answer is kick her in each of those exploding bacon bits of hers. And add a couple of cheap shots to her Pizza Huts for good measure. FOREVER THE
It probably goes without saying that Dunc is no fan of the rozzers. Well that was until Dunc heard that the Philly police beat up these MTV-fellating twunts without apparent provocation. Releasing laughable Jedi like this is provocation enough in Dunc's eyes. BOYS LIKE GIRLS
Boys like girls? Well, to paraphrase Shakespeare: methinks these knob jockeys doth protest too much. Either way, Dunc likes his punk without third-rate teen wangst, so he's off to the pub to get Schindlers and forget these drooling morons ever existed. Dunc The Punk Guide To Cockney: *The opinions of Dunc the Punk do not reflect those of the Reglar Wiglar or, quite possibly, anyone anywhere.
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From RW 1.1 TOM COMERFORD of
Filmmaker and musician (and punk rock history professor!), Tom Comerford of the Chicago band, Kaspar Hauser, waxes philosophic about music and art over falafel and tabuleh. Read the interview BIRDS & ARROWS
Star Reporter C. Bales has returned to the Wiglar staff, despite a move to Dixie. Check out her triumphant return by reading this exciting interview with North Carolina folk-indie pop band, Birds & Arrows. Read the interview Joey Germ's
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