Long before the world heard of Simon Cowell, Atlanta rock n' roll writer Jeff Clark had perfected the art of grinding wanna-be rock stars into dust. The days when he piloted the Sound Menu for Creative Loafing are...well, not legendary, but I fondly remember them.

Clark got the boot from Creative Loafing eons ago and today I picked up his independent fish wrapper, Stomp n' Stammer, for the first time in a few moons. His review of a band called Perpetual Groove is not only dead on, but proves Clark hasn't lost his touch.

Whenever a band has the word "groove" in its name, you can usually be assured that they'll be wretched. Athens tree-huggers Perpetual Groove could be Exhibit A, because they never stop sucking. Like their name implies, it's perpetual all right. Working in a sort of jacked-up, sensitive-dude jam-band arena, these dopes make a big stink about their new CD, LIVELOVEDIE, being completely made and manufactured with renewable energeies, "making it the first album to be produced having zero negative impact on our environment." Bullshit -- my ears are killin' me! At least they have the honesty to put some truth in their liner notes, where they state, and I quote: "Our planet is suffering, and we're responsible!"

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