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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...Bomb Turks "American Soul Spiders" 4. Bikini Kill "Alien She" 5. Kudgel "Chicken Pump" 6. Royal Trux "Back to School" 7. Rancid Hell Spawn "Eyeball in my Mouth" 8. Boredoms "Bore Now Bore" 9. The Fumes "Empty Cell" 10. The Queers "Bonehead" 11. Fat Day "Choad Nickel" 12. Frances Gumm "So Much of Nothing" 13. Element of Crime "Delinquint Squint" 14. Huggy Bear "Teen Tighterns" 15. Killdozer "The Pig Was Cool" 16. The Lune "The Traveller" 17. Skinned Teen "Punk Rockest" 18. Adickdid "Eye Level" 19. Sparkalepsy "Bong Ammo" 20. Guided By Voices "Stabbing a Star...
...FRANCES GUMM Cruella (CD: Landspeed) & NEW RADIANT STORM KING Rival Time (CD: Homestead) An hour west of us, two years ago, there were five colleges, a mental institution, a bunch of small towns, and two new bands with a lot in common: a crisp, visceral punch, a fondness for odd rhythms and offbeats, strained singing, and atonality. (Those aren't "chords" Frances Gumm plays; more like "bunches of notes.") As the two new bands started releasing singles and playing out in New England together, they both got better by sounding less alike...
...Frances Gumm, which has toured with Pavement (and now is based in St. Paul) developed a simpler sound you could duplicate night after night, show after show: short songs, no jazz, no instrumentals, with the melody locked up in the jumpy bass lines. Eric, the singer, started singing as if his lungs were being torn from his body and his liver ripped apart by vultures every time the two-line choruses began. Cruella is therefore one of the year's most emotionally wrenching rock records, if you can get used to the singing; the whole package reminds...
...stayed at home, evolved a sound you'd be more likely to sit in your room and enjoy than to thrash to. On Rival Time there are numerous tempo changes and a few failed sonic, or Sonic Youth, experiments. NRSK's successes, however, are more accessible than Frances Gumm's--especially "Phonecall," which my roommate describes as "a good college-rock song that's actually about college." Sample lines: "Are you enjoying all your classes/Running round in the woods on too much acid?" Beat that for a capsule desription of the Five-College Area. New Radiant Storm King performs...
...Much of Nothing Frances Gumm...