SEE WESTY RUN

From the fertile almost-headwaters of the mighty Mississippi, a region also known as Minneapolis, comes yet another entry in the thoughtful thrash category: Run Westy Run. Three brothers, two guitars, one whomping good sound. The Westy’s unadorned, not too tight, just tuff enuff approach to this thing we call rock ’n’ roll invites comparisons to fellow Twin Cities bashers like the Replacements, Husker Du and Soul Asylum, but as the boys themselves will assure you, “Nobody in the band really looks to those groups as influences, y’know.”