The Muffs put such similar songs on every record and blow through them with such nonchalance you start to think that maybe they invented the clichés. And maybe, just maybe, they did.

At any rate, they’ve got their own clichés, a pop-punk-rock-and-roll manual written by Kim Shattuck’s ragged, overdriven guitar and growling, throaty voice. Simple guitar riffs and chords punctuate every song. And Kim’s voice… ahh .. what a voice. Full of phlegm and bored bile. (more…)