• LIKE US ON FACEBOOK FOR GREAT VIDEOS!!!

    LIKE US ON FACEBOOK FOR GREAT VIDEOS!!!

    We’ve been posting lots of great music videos on our Facebook page, so be sure to click the like button on the Facebook widget while you’re here! Some of the videos we’ve posted: Justin Timberlake: Tunnel Vision The Lonely Island: We Need Love The Civil Wars: The One That Got Away Megadeth: Super Collider Skylar…

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  • #albumoftheday BLACK SABBATH: 13

    #albumoftheday BLACK SABBATH: 13

    Initially, I was disappointed that this new Black Sabbath album, the first in something like 20 years to feature Geezer Butler (bass), Tony Iommi (guitar) and Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), didn’t have any catchy songs like “Iron Man” and “Paranoid.”  I felt like, didn’t they want to hook people?  I’ve been frustrated with Iron Maiden for…

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  • #albumoftheday SKID ROW: UNITED WORLD REBELLION: CHAPTER ONE

    #albumoftheday SKID ROW: UNITED WORLD REBELLION: CHAPTER ONE

    United World Rebellion: Chapter One is Skid Row’s third release to feature vocalist Johnny Solinger, who’s been their singer for a decade now, which is probably close to how long original vocalist Sebastian Bach was in the band. Their first release with Solinger was called Thickskin and it found the band trying on an alternative…

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  • #albumoftheday ALICE IN CHAINS: THE DEVIL PUT DINOSAURS HERE

    #albumoftheday ALICE IN CHAINS: THE DEVIL PUT DINOSAURS HERE

    If I understand correctly, this is the chorus of “The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here,” the title track of Alice In Chain’s new album: “The devil put dinosaurs here / Jesus don’t like a queer / The devil put dinosaurs here / No problem with faith just fear.” Now analyze that. Seriously. Because I don’t get…

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  • #albumoftheday EMPIRE OF THE SUN: ICE ON THE DUNE

    #albumoftheday EMPIRE OF THE SUN: ICE ON THE DUNE

    Daft Punk will undoubtedly be this year’s most successful electronic music duo (even if much of their latest album was produced with live instruments), but Australia’s Empire Of The Sun won’t be kept down under on the charts for much longer if there’s any justice in this world of pop. Just listen to “Alive,” the…

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  • REVIEW SPOTLIGHT: PAOLA & CHIARA: GIUNGLA

    REVIEW SPOTLIGHT: PAOLA & CHIARA: GIUNGLA

    I started covering Paola & Chiara over a decade ago when I was writing a world music column called Import Zone for Lollipop magazine. (I couldn’t find every column I wrote about them in, but I did manage to find the one with my review of their 2002 album Festival, which you can read here:…

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  • #albumoftheday Queensrÿche: Queensrÿche (2013)

    #albumoftheday Queensrÿche: Queensrÿche (2013)

    Back in April a Queensrÿche album called Frequency Unknown was released. And it was terrible. The 10 new songs were so generic that they were painful to listen to. Or maybe it was the production and/or mixing. The drums sounded like tin cans. Actually, that’s an insult to tin cans. I don’t mean that as…

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  • REVIEW SPOTLIGHT: AUSTRA: OLYMPIA

    REVIEW SPOTLIGHT: AUSTRA: OLYMPIA

    Austra hail from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, but chances are you probably already know that. After all, their 2011 debut, Feel It Break, was listed on numerous critics’ best of 2011 lists, following a year of positive reviews. The Toronto Star and New York even named it the best album of the year. Basically, Feel It…

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  • #albumoftheday SHINING: ONE ONE ONE

    #albumoftheday SHINING: ONE ONE ONE

    Once upon a time a Norwegian group released a couple of acoustic jazz albums. But, apparently having diverse tastes in music, their next two albums incorporated progressive rock and experimental metal sounds. Then they worked with black metal vikings Enslaved on a concerto that was actually commissioned by a top European jazz festival. That collaboration…

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  • STRYPER ON KANYE WEST AND GOD

    STRYPER ON KANYE WEST AND GOD

    Kanye recently stated that God is a “featured guest” on his new album Yeezus.  (I’m not sure where he said this, but it’s all over the internet so, you know, it must be true.)  STRYPER sent the following reply to TMZ and it’s hilarious: “First of all, and with all due respect, how is it…

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  • SINGLE SPOTLIGHT: EDITORS: A TON OF LOVE

    SINGLE SPOTLIGHT: EDITORS: A TON OF LOVE

    The new single by Editors, “A Ton Of Love,” is up-tempo song taken from their latest album, The Weight of Your Love. Usually Editors remind me of The Killers and Franz Ferdinand, but this particular track reminds me of Springsteen, given its potent drumming, the tone of Tom Smith’s moving vocals and the shimmering horns.…

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  • #albumoftheday DEMON LUNG: THE HUNDRETH NAME

    #albumoftheday DEMON LUNG: THE HUNDRETH NAME

    Usually when a band takes its name from another band’s song, they’re doomed to never be as good as the band they’ve gotten their name from. For all of their accomplishments, Godsmack will never be as good as Alice In Chains. At least not in my opinion. Doom metal band Demon Lung have taken their…

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  • #albumoftheday Olivier Libaux (Nouvelle Vague): UNCOVERED QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

    #albumoftheday Olivier Libaux (Nouvelle Vague): UNCOVERED QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

    In 2008 Nouvelle Vague co-founder/musician Marc Collin did a side-project album called Hollywood, Mon Amour. The album featured songs from ’80’s movies covered Nouvelle Vague style, meaning that they were the sort of covers that are often drastically different than the original versions of the song, though care is taken when making these interpretations because…

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  • #albumoftheday – EYE RA HAZE: EYE OF THE STORM

    #albumoftheday – EYE RA HAZE: EYE OF THE STORM

    Produced by Chris “Zeuss” Harris (Killswitch Engage, Soulfly), Eye of the Storm is the new E.P. by New York City’s Eye Ra Haze and it’s mighty impressive. In fact, its three songs are the most potent female-fronted hard rock I’ve heard since Evanescence’s Fallen, which was released 10 years ago. Since then, an awful lot…

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  • #albumoftheday INDOCHINE: BLACK CITY PARADE

    #albumoftheday INDOCHINE: BLACK CITY PARADE

    The French band Indochine have now been at it for 32 years and are usually regarded in the way people regard musical gods like U2, The Beatles and Johnny Cash. In other words, people consider their music a form of high art and deem them music royalty. Well, their fans do anyway. And they have…

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  1. Greetings! I just released my vocal and songwriter debut today called The Kryptonite EP and was reaching out to send…