Bella Morte
Beautiful Death
Metropolis Records
5/10
AFI?! I thought their album wasn’t coming out until November! I’m being facetious, of course. But hon... Read More...
Jim White
A Funny Little Cross to Bear
Luaka Bop
8/10
Let’s get this out of the way: Jim White may well be one of the greatest troubadours Dixieland has pr... Read More...
Dolores
Bohren and Der Club of Gore
Ipecac Recordings
10/10
It's been a while since I've anticipated a band's upcoming release as much as I did this one. ... Read More...
Holding Mercury
Downfall of an Empire
5/10
What a horribly boring experience. It’s not bad, which makes it worse. I can’t tear it apart because it’s not ba... Read More...
Irish Hip Hop – Vol. 1
Various Artists
80 Million Records
7/10
“I’m from the land of bar room brawls” – at least Rob Kelley knows that his country has con... Read More...
Blind Melon
For My Friends
Adrenaline
8/10
It's been some time since this band was known for something other than some pudgy girl in a bumble bee costume... Read More...
The So So Glos
Tourism/Terrorism
Green Owl Records
4/10
There’s something to be said about sloppiness as it pertains to punk, and sloppiness as it pertain... Read More...
Enslaved
Vertebrae
Nuclear Blast
3/10
You know how DethKlok recorded that album in the Mariana Trench because it was the most br00tal place on the planet?... Read More...
Anberlin
New Surrender
Universal Republic
8/10
Oh, it looks like someone hit musical puberty. Now that Anberlin’s proverbial nards have dropped, they can g... Read More...
ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
ALL SYSTEMS GO III
Vagrant Records
10/10
Rocket From The Crypt fucking rocks! Their ’95 release, Scream! Dracula, Scream!, is one of... Read More...
Psycroptic
Ob(Servant)
Nuclear Blast
9/10
Coming from the land that we often associate with the Looney Toons character Taz, Psycroptic’s sound is as energ... Read More...
We Are Scientists and Kings of Leon
Nokia Theater, LA
October 15, 2008
Ah, the woes of the lesser bands on the bill. They suffer through the milling crowds o... Read More...
Toolroom Knights: A Journey Through The World’s Finest House Music
Various- Mixed by Mark Knight
Toolroom Records
7/10
London Mixmaster and Toolroom Reco... Read More...
Rise Against
Appeal To Reason
DGC/Interscope Records
8/10
Oh, my. It seems Rise Against has fallen into a rut. A sonically delicious rut, but a rut none th... Read More...
Dylan Trees
Charlie Horse
Motherwest Records
7/10
The soft voice of British singer-songwriter Jeremy Simon feels just like a warm summer breeze on a lazy... Read More...
