From the power-pop of Alkaline Trio's "My Standard Break From Life" to AFI's hardcore punk on "Who Knew," through tracks by Swingin' Utters, Lawrence Arms, Atom and His Package, At The Drive-In, Boy Sets Fire, Dillinger Escape Plan, Good Riddance, The Ataris, Suicide Machines, and many more, Asian Man delivers a compilation chalk full of good music for a good cause.

This is one of the best compilations I've heard in 2001, with non-stop good music throughout; not a clunker to find. I'll give it an A.

VARIOUS ARTISTS: Swivlin Wahine - High Tide

VARIOUS ARTISTS: The Amos House Collection Volume II

[Issue Forty-Two // November 2001]