Saturday, 27 August 2022
Primrods - Shit Side Story (2002)
Friday, 26 August 2022
Minks - Von Gundy (2002)
And if you don't know, grab the download.
Thursday, 25 August 2022
Mannequin Depressives - Trash-Eighty (2002)
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Lorrie Mateson - You Should Know By Now (2002)
After the demise of the excellent National Dust, Lorrie Matheson embraced playing and recording under his own name and released this, his first solo CD. This picks up where National Dust left off - maybe skewing more power pop than that band. It's always struck us as a bit weird that Matheson recorded this in Edmonton with a bunch of session musicians, but maybe that was just him trying to distance himself from the legacies of National Dust and Fire Engine Red.
This one is available for streaming via Spotify.
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Kris Demeanor - Lark (2002)
Demeanor's discography can be pretty hard to track down (looks like only his last CD is on Spotify), so grab the download here.
Monday, 22 August 2022
Knucklehead - Hostage Radio (2002)
Sunday, 21 August 2022
Jeff Caissie - I'm Just Trying Not To Lose My Mind (2002)
This solo CD from the usually audacious and over-the-top frontman of the Browns picking up an acoustic guitar and throwing his heart on his sleeve for a CD of stripped down, more singer-songwriterly tracks. Jeff Caissie's inspiration might be the Replacements' Paul Westerberg (whose "Here Comes a Regular" is covered as the hidden track on this - and covered quite, quite well, we should note) and he (Caissie, that is) does pretty well in that tradition. The songs on here are heartfelt and really great - they show that hardcore kids can turn it down and not suck.
Stream it on Spotify.
Friday, 12 August 2022
Kara Keith - The Love Years (2002)
It looks like this CD (with different art - our copy is obviously a one-off, handmade affair) is available for your streaming pleasure on Kara Keith's Spotify.
Thursday, 11 August 2022
Anne Loree - roAr (2002)
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Honeyrocket - Comforting Violence (2002)
Oh, wow - we had forgotten about Honeyrocket until we pulled out this CD for posting. We had featured singer Thérèse Lanz on an ¡Olé! 7" a few months ago, but forgot about her earlier work with the all-grrl Honeyrocket. We're going to turn to She Rox for the full story:
Honeyrocket began in the early 2000’s, based out of Calgary, Alberta they quickly gained local notoriety for their punky guitar driven brand of grunge rock. Founded by sisters Therese Lanz aka Trezzy-Guitar and vocals, Francesca Lenz aka Franni-Bass, along with Jen Foster-Drums, and Jamie Fooks on vocals. This line-up proved however to be short lived, and guitarist Marlene Lau and new drummer Stefani Makichan would solidify the line-up. Touring throughout Canada with punk legends Fugazi in 2001 opened the band up to larger punk base, although many described the band as Canada’s answer to L7. By 2002, Honeyrocket would release their debut album “Comforting Violence”, with its guitar driven hooks the album received numerous positive reviews and saw their popularity reaching far beyond their local music scene. However not long after its release the band called it quits leaving many of their fans wondering why. Founding members the Lanz sisters would continue on with drummer Stefani Makichan and form the all female trio Kilbourne, a punk influenced sound with hints of pop in it, he band would last until 2009 and eventually add a male guitarist to the line up. By 2010 only frontwoman and guitarist Therese Lanz and drummer Stefani Makichan remained and the duo switched to a heavy doom metal sound and became the duo known as Mares Of Thrace, which proved to be the most successful out of all the incarnations of the genius that is Therese Lanz. Guitarist Marlene Lau would go on to found the co-ed band Kill Matilda and remained that band's guitarist until eventually leaving the band. Honeyrocket however may remain an undiscovered gem by many and for those is becoming a much sought after band that were indeed forerunners in what some have called Canada’s Riot Girl movement.
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
Failure - The Failure (2002)
Friday, 5 August 2022
Daggers - Right Between the Eyes (2002)
Get it here!
Thursday, 4 August 2022
Corta Vita - Communication Is Nothing Without Feedback (2002)
Get this one from the posthumous Corta Vita bandcamp.
Wednesday, 3 August 2022
Central City - The Periscope Demo (2002)
How did this end up in our collection? We have no idea. And what is it? AH! We have an answer to that one! This CD is a basically a Clinton St. John solo thing, with two songs that would ultimately show up on the Cape May's excellent first CD. These stripped-down, early versions are quite good as well - and you can get them here.
Tuesday, 2 August 2022
Agriculture Club - Farmageddon (2002)
Monday, 1 August 2022
Aaron Booth - Transparent (2002)
You can get this from Aaron Booth's bandcamp.