Article Archive for July 2006
I’m not sure whether or not there is backlash or lack of support for the album due to overhyping or general Jack White-iness, but Broken Boy Soldiers is one of the best albums of the …
Though the band offers up one of the year’s best albums, the video for the single “Run Home” is slightly mediocre. But the good kind of mediocre…if such a kind exists:
Everclear’s new album Welcome to the Drama Club is a wasted effort from a nonexistent band past its prime. While such a criticism might be merited, actually listening to the album proves it wrong. …
Thom Yorke performs “The Clock” and “Cymbal Rush” and sits down for an interview on The Henry Rollins Show.
“In the brutally cold world of Big Rock Biz, there’s something very comforting about just knowing that a band like L.A.’s Silversun Pickups exist.” Something tells me that the band’s press release has an …
New York Dolls perform “Dance Like a Monkey” on the July 20 episode of Late Night.
Since first hearing the single I’ve heard many comparisons with ZZ Top, but I have a differing opinion, I think it sounds like George Thorogood. At least the part that Petty plays, as it …
[by Chris DeLine]
In preparation for a new album, it becomes fitting to revisit an artists older work, and in doing so various thoughts and memories are too revisited. Re-experiencing Kaki King’s live performances revealed …
Popular early 90s funk revivalists The Brand New Heavies new album Get Used To It jumps straight into a sound that precedes the group wherever it goes; acid jazz, lounge funk or even soulful grooves, …
I love the Supersuckers. The band performs a non-stop freight train of gritty, liquored up and rubbed down countra-fied rock. The band’s new EP, Paid, sports some great tracks which follow last years …
Unfortunately I wrote the Trainwreck Riders off the first time I heard the band. I watched the video for the track “Slow Motion Cowboy” and thought that it was cheesy, a bit tacky and …
Ultimately Gov’t Mule is one such band that flirts with a variety of strong tracks which serve to help rejuvenate this often overlooked sound that has seemingly been lost but forgotten.
