Richie James Follin
Battle
Self-Released
8/10
Few artists have the honor of being able to say the put an album together themselves. Maybe they produced the ... Read More...
Van Morrison
Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Listen To The Lion Records
8/10
I have never seen Van Morrison live, but my roommate gave me this wa... Read More...
MC Lars
This Gigantic Robot Kills
Oglio Records
8/10
Accordions, robots, talking shit on hipster girls and Wesley Willis? How could I possibly even attem... Read More...
Cannibal Corpse
Evisceration Plague
Metalblade Records
10/10
Every bit as awesome and brutal as you would expect from Cannibal Corpse, Evisceration Plague... Read More...
The Drones
Havilah
ATP Records
7/10
Oscillating between weak melodic shoe gaze and their best attempts at being Modest Mouse, The Drones leave me confused... Read More...
The Shaking Hands
The Shaking Hands
Kiss of Death Records
10/10
Shaking Hands id exactly what I wanted to listen to today. I couldn’t find my Rancid CD an... Read More...
Two Tongues
Two Tongues
Vagrant Records
6/10
Here's how I imagine Two Tongues starting:
Max Bemis (of Say Anything): God, who can I partner with to hig... Read More...
House of Heavy
House of Heavy
Metalblade Records
2/10
Complete and utter crap. Nickelback on speed. Douchebag radio rock. Horrible vocal/lyrical structur... Read More...
Crooked X
Crooked X
Capitol Records
9/10
At fourteen years old, I hadn’t been to a concert, I thought White Zombie was the epitome of badass, and I had ne... Read More...
Destroy Destroy Destroy
Battle Sluts
Metalblade Records
8/10
Fucking epic. When the first drum beats/horns of The Second Coming hit my ears, I honestly di... Read More...
Loved Ones
Distractions
Fat Wreck Chords
6/10
The Loved Ones fans haven’t heard anything new in precisely a year, so here are three new ones to tide them... Read More...
Marked Men
Ghosts
Dirtnap Records
7/10
These guys aren’t reinventing anything here, but they’re good at what they do. With three previous albums under th... Read More...
Potluck
Pipe Dreams
Suburban Noize
7/10
I am horrified to find this as catchy as it is. Raps flow like bong-water over old-school beats in their latest al... Read More...
John Frusciante
The Empyrean
Record Collection
7/10
Wow, I am really glad I don’t do drugs. This is mostly because they’re expensive and would bar me from... Read More...
Cramps Frontman Lux Interior Dead at 62
The Daily Swarm reports that Lux Interior, frontman of The Cramps (the godfathers of what is now lovingly referred to a... Read More...