How bad is the new Black Eyed Peas album? Sit down by the fire and let Mike Heyliger tell you about the time he had to listen to The Beginning.
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Ken Shane
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You’ve heard about her on our Twitter stream. You’ve wondered what all the fuss was about. Amy Petty’s new album has been released, and it’s time to find out.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed reviews the new albums from Atheist, Nails, Drudkh and Yngwie!
Dave Steed
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Resident Buckethead expert Dave Steed, takes a look at the four most recent releases from Buckethead – Best Regards, Captain EO’s Voyage, Spinal Clock and Brain as Hamenoodle.
Ken Shane
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Daniel Lanois is well known as a brilliant producer. His band Black Dub has released their debut album and Ken Shane thinks it’s one of the highlights of 2010.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed reviews the new albums from Helloween, Gwar, former Manowar guitarist Ross the Boss, AxCx and more!
Ken Shane
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In 1982 Richard and Linda Thompson released what some saw as a devastating breakup album. The truth is complicated. A brilliant reissue gets to the heart of it.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed checks out seven new metal releases so you know what to headbang to.
Ken Shane
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Philadelphia’s War On Drugs follows up their 2008 album “Wagonwheel Blues” with an EP that defies that conventions of that format.
Jeff Giles
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I never thought I’d be interested in listening to an Aaron Neville record. Yes, of course he’s done some stellar work with the Neville Brothers, but fellow children of the…
Ken Shane
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Occasionally there is an event in the music world that transcends the mundane. The release of Bob Dylan’s publishing demos from the early ’60s is such an event.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed headbangs along with new releases from Woe, October Falls, Firewind and more.
Ken Shane
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Angie Mattson impressed Ken Shane when she opened for Justin Currie on his first solo US tour. Does her new album deliver on the promise of that performance?
Dave Steed
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Dimmu Borgir releases a new album and gasp, it’s good. Plus epic metal from Atlantean Kodex and the soundtrack to your next renaissance fair in this week’s metal reviews.
Dave Steed
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It’s a headbangers delight this week with reviews of the kick-ass new albums from Enslaved, October Tide, Swashbuckle, James LaBrie and more.
Michael Fortes
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Granny pop standards? Dixieland jazz? What was Eric thinking? Think what you will, but the results of Clapton’s latest solo album just might surprise you.
Ken Shane
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The combined talents of Robert Plant and Buddy Miller were bound to produce interesting results. Together they have made “Band of Joy” one the year’s best albums.
Ken Shane
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Justin Townes Earle has been on the wrong side of some undesirable headlines lately, but when it comes to his music he delivers the goods on his third album.
Dave Steed
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In this week’s new metal reviews, Dave Steed prays Serj Tankian will reform System of a Down, Flotsam and Jetsam give him the shivers and half-hour long doom tracks are spotlighted.
Mike Heyliger
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The trio Soulive has the kind of groove-centric sound that you’d imagine goes over quite well with traditionalists as well as a young, hip crowd. Featuring organ, guitar and drums…
Allen Lulu
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In the long history of rock music, there have always been two constants. One is a steady stream of pablum spoonfed by the industry conglomerates feeding their own beasts and…
Rob Smith
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Clare Burson chases the ghosts of family members lost in the Holocaust on her excellent new album, “Silver and Ash.” Read Rob Smith’s review at Popdose.
Dw. Dunphy
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Let me bring you down for a moment. Remember that song “Silent Lucidity” you heard that night when you and (insert name here) went all the way? If you wound…
Dave Steed
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Linkin Park, A Thousand Suns (Warner Bros.) If you have been brought here by simply clicking on a link after running a Google search for ”Linkin Park Rules” and are…
Matt Wardlaw
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By the time On Tour with Eric Clapton was released in 1970, the husband/wife pairing of Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett could loosely be placed in the category of “seasoned veterans”…
Ken Shane
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I don’t think I’ve used the word ‘astonishing’ in relation to an album in a long time. But the new Ryan Bingham album, Junky Star (Lost Highway), merits that kind…
Dave Steed
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Suicidal Tendencies, No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family (Suicidal Records) There were just so many thoughts running through my mind when I heard about this release. The first studio album in…
Ken Shane
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Miles Davis once quipped that he had changed the course of jazz “four or five times.” If you know anything about jazz, and I don’t profess to know much, you…
Jeff Giles
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The road to Hell is paved with good intentions — and the road to mediocre country-rock records is paved with steel guitars, plaintive drawls, and lyrics about one-horse towns. Make…
Michael Parr
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Ra Ra Riot enter “The Orchard” on their brilliant new release, Michael Parr has the review.