Christian Mistress, Agony & Opium (20 Buck Spin) I really want to call bullshit on this one. There is just no way that the debut EP from Christian Mistress isn’t…
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Dave Steed
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BXI, BXI (Southern Lord) Boris = fucking weird Ian Astbury = fucking cool So if I’m to take the title of this collaboration literally then I should multiply B X…
Ken Shane
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The idea of a collaboration between two of America’s greatest composers is one that is intriguing, but also fraught with peril. The biggest problem is that the music of George…
Ken Shane
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Last year I saw Eli “Paperboy” Reed and his band the True Loves at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. I came away a little disappointed. I’d been following their…
Dave Steed
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Dear Mr. Wylde, It’s easy to see you have an immense amount of talent. Ever since I listened to the Blessed Hellride in 2003 I keep purchasing your new Black…
Dave Steed
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Bonded by Blood is regularly cited as one of the top bands that’s a part of the thrash metal revival movement (I’ve never seen this listed as TMRM but c’mon…
Dave Steed
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Let’s get this out of the way up front — I hate Miley Cyrus and especially her 80-year-old chain smokers voice. That has nothing to do with the Brother Clyde…
Dave Steed
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Before getting Metafiction, I had never heard anything from Votum. It didn’t take a genius to at least have a starting base to knowing what I was getting myself into…
Dave Steed
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I was bound to review Spacemaker no matter what genre the band was thanks to the intriguing information that Microtia create their own instruments and that this album cover and…
Michael Parr
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The Silver Seas are back with Chateau Revenge, which Michael Parr thinks might be the best record released so far this year.
Dave Steed
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There’s kind of an interesting back story behind these old-school Swedish death metalers. They formed in 1988 as Beyond, released three demos and ended up breaking up in 1994 having not…
Ken Shane
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Quick, name another band whose lineup has been intact for 26 years. Not that easy is it? Not these days, not any days. Los Lobos can claim that distinction. Steve…
Dave Steed
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My fellow metal lovers, I am here to preach to you — to preach the truth! Proghma-C’s debut full length Bar-Do Travel has been out since 2009 oversees, but just…
Michael Parr
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The Haus of Gaga has unleashed another look at Lady Gaga’s hits, Michael Parr braves the little monsters with his review.
Ken Shane
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“These are the days I remember.” With these words, Mark Olson opens his latest solo venture Many Colored Kite. These are good days for Olson, particularly coming as they do…
Dave Steed
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I don’t do too many non-metal reviews these days. I generally have a hard time coming up those creative $2 words to describe how moved I am by anything that doesn’t…
Dave Steed
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It’s about time Early Man put out a new full-length album. Their last one was Closing In, released close to five years ago on Matador records, which really wasn’t the…
Dave Steed
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There are certain things that draw me to metal records from bands I’ve never really heard of before. The first is the name of the band — and we all…
Dave Steed
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I feel the need right up front to warn you to brace yourself before you listen to The Body’s All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood. I could…
Mike Heyliger
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While his partner in OutKast, Andre ”3000″ Benjamin, indulged increasingly bizarre flights of fancy, ranging from grass skirts and shoulder pads to Beatlesque jangle pop, Antwan ”Big Boi” Patton was…
Michael Parr
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In a time where anyone with a laptop can churn out a record, it is difficult to know where to stop and listen. Michael Parr has one that deserves your time.
Dave Steed
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It’s been 7 years since a Meltgsnow record, with the group having released their debut in 2003 and only getting to the follow up now. They are based out of…
Jeff Giles
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Great Big Sea is one of those bands that fills a particular niche — in this case, traditional Newfoundland folk with a modern pop twist — so completely that no…
Michael Parr
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Michael Parr takes on the latest Prince record, 20Ten, and promises not to “just fill your head with numbers.”
Jeff Giles
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Curtains for You’s publicist pitched us What a Lovely Surprise to Wake Up Here as “The Beatles meets vaudeville meets The Muppet Show,” a bizarrely promising description that led Way…
Ken Shane
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A new Crowded House album is always cause for celebration, and Ken Shane thinks their latest is one of their best.
Bob Cashill
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Warner Bros. Records sent me Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack to this week’s much-anticipated blockbuster Inception. Cards on the table: While I certainly respect writer-director Christopher Nolan, I wasn’t crazy about The…
Michael Fortes
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Michael Fortes reviews one of the year’s best new albums – a folk-pop masterpiece by veteran singer/songwriter and one-time Jewel collaborator Steve Poltz.
Dave Steed
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I’m honestly a little disturbed with myself right now. I don’t know if I’ve just been pummeling myself with so much new music that I can’t seem to tell the…
Ann Logue
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Draumalandid is part of a full-on multimedia expose of Alcoa’s aluminum smelters in Reydarfjordur, Iceland. The company’s first plant was planned in 2002, built in 2005, and became live in…