Paul Caporino re-ups his bona fides as one of the great, underappreciated pop punk tunesmiths. He gives a sly tip of his glass to everyone from the Beatles and Bowie to the Ramones. He and the band hit all of the biblical hotspots: music, work, booze, sex, short suck you in solos and spot on nod, leer, and wink lyric concerns from all of the rejected gnostic gospel outtakes.

AS220, Providence
October 6, 2015

The word “indie” gets abused in music writing, but few bands have the true independent spirit that’s kept garage rock stalwarts M.O.T.O., more lengthily known as Masters of the Obvious, going for 30 years.

NOW Toronto
August 18, 2011

He writes a brand of pop-informed punk with ragged edges that’s never really gone out of style — but then again, it’s never really been in style, per se.

Pittsburgh City Paper
July 7, 2011

The songwriter’s cliche is that each song is like a child, that it’s impossible for the “parent” to favor one over the other. Paul Caporino, one of Chicago indie-rock’s very best songwriters, has a slightly less reverent take on the merits of his offspring: “Is the one who becomes a porn dealer better than the one who becomes a lawyer?” he asks.

Chicago Tribune
July 18, 1997

You might say he’s Chicago’s answer to 2 Live Crew. Like Luther Campbell’s rap group, he takes the omnipresent sexual suggestiveness of rock and with nursery-rhyme immediacy and street-kid energy turns it into gold.

Chicago Reader
October 25, 1990