Michigan Indie Review

Loadstone warms you up to their precarious mood with an innocuous groove and understated complaints, then slams your head against the garage door again and agian until you admit, to God and all present that "Nobody Notices" or really gives a damn when you're having a lousy day. Band: Loadstone Song: Nobody Notices After reading Loadstone's influences (Ailce In chains, Silverchair, Creed, Goo Goo dolls, Rage Against The Machine, Fuel, Korn, Papa Roach, Weezer, etc..) I was pleasantly surprised to hear the tone of this cut. Loadstone's "Nobody Notices" is much snottier than their listed influences (with the possible exception of Weezer). And it's not nearly as slick, polished or overproduced as those nationally distributed acts. This leads me to the conclusion that Loadstone's real influences are the sympathetic vibrations of the garage door at 120db, too much alcohol, too little sleep and just being really, really pissed-off at the world. "No...

What happens when a bunch of starry-eyed boys begin writing songs in the midst of their hormone-ragin' puberty? A weepy dedication to the girl of the moment. Random Reviews Band: Bowen Song: Maria Whispy girl-centered ballad (that, of course begins with a simple acoustic picking pattern coupled with a smooth wandering bass line that makes me want to sing, "Every Rose has it's Thorn") reminiscent of hair-band follies that lament, "oh, my life just would not be complete without such-and-such girl by whom every other girl pales by comparison (at least until next week). If I can't have her I swear I'm-a-gonna cut my hair, whine to my friends when I'm drunk, or (groan) write yet another weepy rock ballad that nobody can understand like I can." The lack of dynamics in this selection are NOT improved by the tempo change near the end in which neither verse nor melody are improved. Even if the dramatic tempo change were coupled with a key m...