(Warner Bros, 2006) The Vacation’s American Records debut is the same album as 2005’s Band From World War Zero, with a reordered tracklist and wider distribution, but that doesn’t mean a lot to me since I didn’t hear the original. The band’s formula is essentially hard rock in the vein of Buckcherry, with dashes […]

This disc compiles 10 tracks from Cursive’s early 7-inch singles, and adds two previously unreleased cuts. Both unreleased tracks are from 1996, meaning they weren’t recorded specifically for the compilation (unlike the newly recorded tracks on the latest Fountains of Wayne comp). As indicated by the subtitle, these tracks are from a number of […]