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Rustbucket
Hope Chest
Happy Tails

“They’re from Chicago, so this must be somewhat cool,” I thought. Wrong. It’s heavy guitar rock like I expected, but without any feeling to it whatsoever. It’s hard to write anything about Rustbucket when they leave me totally numb. Hey, does anyone out there have any creative uses for unwanted seven-inch records?

Originally published in Ink Nineteen in June 1994.