Not to be confused with The Essential Pebbles Collection, Vol. 2, which overlaps somewhat with this album, Pebbles, Vol. 2 is part of the original series of '60s garage punk collections that began in 1979 (the CD version omits a couple songs from the LP & adds six bonus tracks). The opening number, Makin' Deals by the Satans, is a mid-tempo rocker featuring a vocalist who snarled " Can you guess my name?!?" two years before Mick Jagger pranced through " Sympathy for the Devil." "99th Floor, a ...

You may have heard Jefferson Airplane & Jimi Hendrix, but you haven't truly experienced psychedelic rock until you've heard the exploitation quickies, novelty records, & inexplicable dementia that fill this collection, the third volume in the classic Pebbles series of garage-punk compilations. Granted, most of these songs aren't in the same league as " White Rabbit" or "violet Haze" -- indeed, several of them don't merit repeated listening -- but they are as much a part of our musical heritag ...

Never content to remain stagnant over the course of their almost decade long career, 2009 finds Pelican has shifted gears once again. This year sees them on Southern Lord, a label which has long been admired by the Pelican camp; & they are also presenting a brand new 4th full length What We All Come To Need. This record is Pelican through & through & the apex of their creative aspirations. It is the album that straddles most confidently the fine line between adherence to roots & the mini ...

It's too bad that this best-of compilation of sneering & snotty British punk from the legendary but painfully overlooked Penetration is an import, because American punk revivalists could learn a few things from the mercurial English quartet. Their 1978 debut, Moving Targets gets the most airtime here, & rightfully so. Band staples like " Don't Dictate, Stone Heroes, Free Money" & " Life's a Gamble" show a group that fully embraced the anti-authoritarian attack of bands like the Clash and ...

Pennywise: Jim (vocals); Fletcher (guitar); Jason (bass); Byron (drums). Recorded at West Beach Recorders, Hollywood, California. Pennywise: Jim (vocals); Fletcher (guitar); Jason (bass guitar); Byron (drums). Named after the evil clown in Stephen King's novel IT, Pennywise debuted on Epitaph Records in 1991 with this fierce 14-song album. Unmistakably influenced by veteran hardcore band Bad Religion (whose guitarist Brett Gurewitz founded Epitaph), the California quartet offers up an assu ...

Originally released in 1999, Pentagram's umpteenth comeback record, REVIEW YOUR CHOICES, shocked the underground metal community upon its release by the simple fact of its existence. By 1999, through decades of turmoil, Pentagram itself had no right to exist--or to rock as bracingly true to form as they do on REVIEW YOUR CHOICES. Reduced to a duo--original singer & founder Bobby Liebling & multi-instrumentalist Joe Hasselvander--the band rips through a set of new songs & revisited old song ...