[sbMKE]

Jaill blows. I don’t get how an unknown and unliked Milwaukee band can get signed while brilliant groups like Celebrated Workingman and Decibully toil in obscurity.

Weird also that Sub Pop would sign a second jail (Jale being first) band.

[struggle]

Damn, what a flashback. I used to have the Jale So Wound album.

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe that's why they've decided to sell bands as fashion statements then.

The art is the same indie-hipster pencil scrawl I've seen going around for a decade now.

There was a time around 1999-2005 when pop stars would sport "hip" iconography like an MC5 concert poster-shirt or Ed Roth's pinstriper "Von Dutch" without even bothering to understand who/what it was they were presenting.

Style over substance. And that's why mainstream music sucks so bad now.

Levis was behind these faux concert shirts (and got sued by the band and even some other artists who made posters, MC5 ended up staging a high profile reunion because of the settlement).