Radiation Risks | en

One of several excellent traditional ska bands raised in the nurture and admonition of New York's Version City Studio (and its benevolent mandarins, Jeff "King Django" Baker and Victor Rice), the Radiation Kings offer a sound that will be familiar to fans of Skinnerbox, Stubborn All Stars, and The Slackers: a strictly retro organ-driven ensemble with good horn charts and great basslines. But the Kings have one other thing going for them that the others do not: The voice of Lisa White, whose delivery is a perfect balance between postpunk assertiveness and retro-ska sweetness. On the rocksteady ballad, "Spending Time,"...

Radiation Sickness was formed in Indianapolis, IN in 1987 by Doug Palmer and Ryan Rollins. The band was formed mainly on addiction, depression and the love for extreme underground music. While many people seem to not even give Indiana a glance when it to came to extreme grind metal Radiation Sickness started making noise in the underground. The bands first guitar player soon left and Rick Callaway joined in. Soon after Mike Herald was added on drums due to his blast beat abilities and double kick skills. The band recorded their legendary "Elvis Ain't Dead" demo. This demo used influences...

Fresh from the burgeoning Portland label, Apes Tapes, Cameron Spies and Lizzy Ellison have cooked up yet another darling sound to tear you away from your TV dinner. The calmed echoes of amplifier tubes and secret gramophones, the soothing, sonic smile of a warbling Wurlitzer, and precisely sparse heart-throbbing drums bounce from the analogue souls of our newest musical Ozzy & Harriet. Listen for the miniature time-warp symphonies of Radiation City blooming most warmly in the song "Babies" from the Apes Tapes compilation, Mixed Ape Volume 2. Nostalgic sincerity bound by subtly piercing lyrics floats alongside Lizzy's soothing siren-lullaby, only...