Both of these discs showcase NY bands and artists doing their live thing at the Continental bar, a place where many a van-travelling band has done a gig or two at when their tour pulls through NYC. Both discs boast a gang of names you’ve come to be familiar with: Joey Ramone, The Ramainz, Jesse Malin, Cheetah Chrome and Handsome Dick Manitoba, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Murphy’s Law, The Bouncing Souls, Lunachicks, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Toilet Boys, The Bullys, The Waldos, and a helluva lot more. While the sound lags a bit on some of the tracks, these discs are great background music to crank up for your next inebriated get-together.
–dale (The Continental)