This review was originally posted on Crap Filter on February 6, 2006.

Rocks like: Cracker, Modest Mouse, and The Arcade Fire
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In the year of 1989, I was a mere 8 years old and didn’t really know much about the indy music scene… well, I knew nothing about the scene, but that’s understandable at 8 years old. In fact, my musical diet at the time consisted of my mother’s contemporary Christian music and my dad’s oldies… not exactly what I’m into now. It is safe to say that my knowledge of indie rock and the music underground was not quite… well, existent.

But, whether I knew about them or not, Camper Van Beethoven, a great indie band that had already won over college radio and post-punkers alike, came to see 1989 as the year they would release their seemingly final album. In 1990, CVB disbanded and David Lowery went on to form the slightly more commercially successful band Cracker (whom you probably know from the alt-radio smash “Low”) and the rest of the band pursued their previously formed non-Lowery project Monks of Doom.

Not until Michael Moore chose a cover of their 80’s college-rock cult hit, “Take the Skinheads Bowling”, as the theme to his Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine, did CVB truly hit the mainstream. In recent years, they reunited and put out the 2004 album that won over a new generation of fans (including me), New Roman Times. To support this album, CVB toured with indie band on the rise, Modest Mouse in 2005 and now seems to be gaining a new younger fanbase. …more… »