The Bottle Rockets

The Bottle Rockets “South Broadway Athletic Club” Reviewed

By Steve Crawford | October 6, 2015

In 2015, The Bottle Rockets have chronicled a maturity that doesn’t sound like a defeat or a compromise; it sounds like an unmitigated triumph.

Bottle Rockets, The Foundry, Dallas, Texas, August 23, 2014, Reviewed

By Steve Crawford | August 25, 2014

To cut to the chase, The Bottle Rockets in 2014 are as superb as they’ve ever been. Perhaps they are even better now than they were in the ‘90s, they are more disciplined and have four members that really understand how to play as a unit.

10 Songs: Thursday, July 10th, 2014

By Iman Lababedi | July 10, 2014

Playing with Fire – Chelsea Grin – The problem with metalcore is it lives and dies with the lead singer and however great the rest of he band is, if the lead singer sucks, the band sucks. And Alex Koehler doesn’t suck – B+

The Bottle Rockets "The Bottle Rockets And The Brooklyn Side" Reissues Reviewed

By Steve Crawford | November 23, 2013

the Bottle Rockets were the grunge era Creedence Clearwater Revival. They packed their initial albums with one fantastic song after another and if they were too often steeped in economic realities that didn’t translate to the marketplace, that is simply popular music’s loss

Hear Ye On Spotify: What rock nyc is Listening To 121-2

By Iman Lababedi | November 23, 2013

Bringing minimalism to rock writing for the people, this was an attempt to cut down the criticism to two words (except for Bottle Rockets though I only did 8 letters so it might as well be two words!). Call it the anti-Pitchfork Review