Date sent:      	Fri, 30 Jun 2000
Subject:        	CDNow: The Unband

CDNow.com review of The Unband, a punk rock group from Massachussetts.

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It sometimes seems amazing, happily so, that people can
still making great music out of simple guitar licks and
rhythms. As the latest group to prove this, the Unband
rocks like a bunch of kids in a garage who haven't gotten
past the chapter on the '70s in their copy of "Rock Music for Dummies"
and don't really care. 

Singer Matt Pierce sounds like Motörhead's Lemmy if you handed Lemmy
a throat lozenge, while drummer Eugene Ferrari and bassist Mike Ruffino
put pre-prog rock Rush rhythms up against Pierce's pre-rehab
Aerosmith-like guitar riffs. But it really isn't that complicated. 

On such songs as the swaggering "Everybody Wants You" and the
anthemic "Rock Hard," these guys are just the best raw, bar-brewed, riff
happy, hard rock band since the early days of Guns N' Roses. And that,
my friends, is an amazing thing to hear.

Paul Semel