No Use For A Name HARD ROCK BOTTOM

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. No Use For A Name: Rory Koff, Tony Sly, Dave Nassie, Matt Riddle. Recorded in January 2002. Personnel: Karina Denike (vocals); Jennifer Walker (violin, cello). Recording information: Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA (01/2002-??/2002); Motor Studios (01/2002-??/2002). Photographer: Kate Powers. No Use for a Name has built its reputation on a solid foundation of hard-hitting punk, flooding its songs with melodies and fueling them with signature stop-start rhythms that thunder across the grooves, come to an abrupt halt, then pound off again in hyperdrive. Thus, it's a bit of a shock to find Hard Rock Bottom opening with a brief acoustic number, and although nothing else clocks in at this dawdling pace, a handful of mid-tempo numbers are scattered about as well. Equally startling is a cover of Sin?ad O'Connor's "This Is a Rebel Song," a pusillanimous duet between Tony Sly and guesting chanteuse Kar