
Liquor Boxx wants you to think that you've walked into the Whiskey on a night that Motley Crue wasn't playing. Without a headliner that night, Liquor Boxx is the badass band that you've never heard of, that makes you put down your beer when all you really want to do is be drinking, and makes you want to go over to the stage to check out the snakey guitar lines that the guy is playing. Opening track "Ask Me to Stop" lays it out in low-fi sound: Kevin [...]

Time to clean out the inbox again. There was not only a ton of music there, but there was a lot of really good stuff, too. And I don't necessarily mean to say that like I'm surprised to find good music. I got a few submissions from Touch and Go Records and every one of them was great – rockin' stuff. Not only newer stuff like Crystal Antlers, but also punk veterans the Jesus Lizard (who, by the way, will be playing the Pitchfork festival in July if you get a chance to [...]