Music Review

Alert Today Alive Tomorrow (1999)

The Muffs
Reviewed by Mike Flaherty | Jun 25, 1999
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: The Muffs; Genre: Rock

The L.A.-based trio has been around long enough to be characterized as punk, post-punk, and neo-punk. But in these days of Limp Bizkit and Rage Against the Machine, the P-word seems barely relevant to Kim Shattuck's smashing, ever-melodious narratives in Alert Today Alive Tomorrow. Here's an idea: Leave the genre labels behind and just wallow in her beautiful barrage of pain. A-

Originally posted Jun 25, 1999 Published in issue #491-492 Jun 25, 1999 Order article reprints

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