WHITE COLLAR CRIME
Their Laws Are Dimwit Greed.
Reviewed by Victor Infante

Not many people can look at something like the Enron scandal or the Global Crossing scandal, or the messes with Vice Prez Dick Cheney's Haliburton Corporation or Dubya's own Harken Co., and understand that things like these are not only criminal, but are a criminal in such a way that effects the lives of thousands of people and undermine our entire economy.

Sander Hicks gets it. Hicks, lead singer/songwriter of the punk band "White Collar Crime" and publisher of the radical Soft Skull Press is the sort of angry young man who can scream about financial scandals and have it be moving. This is a wonderfully antiestablishmentarian album, the kind of album we don't see much of these days: a splendid mix of intellectualism and seething, dangerous rage, ala the Clash and Bad Religion before they started sucking. Which is important, because with the guys running the country now? Their laws ARE dimwit greed, and they HAVEN'T worked for anything, and we need to let them know that we're upset about it. Upset enough to bust some heads.

Victor Infante

This review was also printed in the Worcester InCity Times.