From Here To Infirmary - Alkaline Trio

The Darker Side Of Punk-Rock (509 words)
by blink me - written on 24/01/02, updated on 24/01/02 (Useful, 138 readings)
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Alkaline Trio have been a staple in the Chicago punk-rock community for a couple of years now. *A QUICK HISTORY OF THE BAND* The band was formed in 1996 by Matt Skiba, Glenn Porter and Rob Doran. They're biggest influences were Ani DiFranco (folk/punk contemporary singer/songwriter) and The Misfits. The band were soon signed to Asian Man Records (Matt is now a very good friend with AMR owner Mike Park) and Rob was replaced by current bassist Dan Andriano. They then released their eponymous debut 'Goddamit'. After the bands second album 'Maybe I'll Catch Fire' was released, Glenn was replaced on drums by Mike Felumlee, just as the band signed ...

From Here To Infirmary - Alkaline Trio

alkaline guru (1970 words)
by Tcraze84 - written on 11/02/02, updated on 21/06/05 (Very useful, 762 readings)
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I recently wrote an opinion on my top ten albums of 2001. Yeah. Forget it. The list of ten, which was actually, er, nine CDs may well have not been written, 'cause I've not only found an album that would slot into any of the ten slots (or indeed the spare one), but renders the list, as scrappily-organised as it was, devoid of any remote order or sorting. The album? Alkaline Trio: From Here To Infirmary. And it's every bit as good as anything released last year. No, seriously. So why the fuss now? And why wasn't it in the list in the first place? Simple - within the aforementioned opinion I did state that I didn't buy many albums last year - and ...