By BlackJack, on December 1st, 2009
Artist: Alice in Chains
Album: Black Gives Way to Blue
Songs:
1. All Secrets Known
2. Check My Brain
3. Last Of My Kind
4. Your Decision
5. A Looking In View
6. When The Sun Rose Again
7. Acid Bubble
8. Lesson Learned
9. Take Her Out
10. Private Hell
11. Black Gives Way To Blue
Review: So the answers to the long awaited questions have come at [...]
By BlackJack, on November 19th, 2009
Artist: Saigon kick
Album: Water (released 1993)
Songs:
1. One Step Closer
2. Space Oddity
3. Water
4. Torture
5. Fields of Rape
6. I Love You
7. Sgt. Steve
8. My Heart
9. On and On
10. The Way
11. Sentimental Girl
12. Close To You
13. When You Were Mine
14. Reprise
Review: It is my opinion that Saigon Kick is an EXTREMELY underrated, under-appreciate band. Their music is [...]
By Eol, on October 17th, 2009
Artist: The XX
Album: xx
Tracks:
01. Intro
02. Vcr
03. Crystalised
04. Islands
05. Heart Skipped A Beat
06. Fantasy
07. Shelter
08. Basic Space
09. Infinity
10. Night Time
11. Stars
Review: From the slightly-quicker-than-walking-pace opening beat of “Intro” to the relaxed and assured final lines of closing track “Stars”, The XX’s particular brand of hushed, romantic melancholia is as compelling as it is inventive. Drawing on [...]
By Eol, on October 17th, 2009
Artist: Why?
Album: Alopecia
Tracks:
1. The Vowels, Pt. 2
2. Good Friday
3. These Few Presidents
4. The Hollows
5. Song of the Sad Assassin
6. Gnashville
7. Fatalist Palmistry
8. The Fall of Mr. Fifths
9. Brook & Waxing
10. A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under
11. Twenty Eight
12. Simeon’s Dilemma
13. By Torpedo or Crohn’s
14. Exegesis
Review: “I’m not a ladies man, I’m a landmine, filming my [...]
By BlackJack, on September 29th, 2009
Artist: Ryan Star
Album: Last Train Home [EP]
Released: June 16, 2009
Tracks:
1 – Last Train Home
2 – Brand New Day
3 – Right Now
4 – This Could Be The Year
Review: And so we await the next album from Ryan, 11:59 due in December, but in the meantime we have been given a tasty little treat to nibble [...]
By BlackJack, on September 28th, 2009
Artist: Collective Soul
Album: Collective Soul (aka:Rabbit)
Released: August 25th, 2009
Tracks:
1. Welcome All Again
2. Fuzzy
3. Dig
4. You
5. My Days
6. Understanding
7. Staring Down
8. She Does
9. Lighten Up
10. Love
11. Hymn for My Father
Review: The Georgia boys are at it again. Hard to believe it was all the way back in 1994 when we first heard Collective Soul hit [...]
By Deaf Burke, on September 27th, 2009
Artist: Daniel Johnston
Album: Songs of Pain
Tracks:
1 – Grievances (02:47)
2 – A Little Story (03:28)
3 – Joy Without Pleasure (01:53)
4 – Never Relaxed (03:25)
5 – Brainwash (02:38)
6 – Pot Head (03:21)
7 – Wicked World (02:33)
8 – Lazy (02:39)
9 – I Save Cigarette Butts (05:24)
10 – Like A Monkey In A Zoo (03:26)
11 – Wicked Will [...]
By DawgRiver, on September 25th, 2009
Cover of Monster
Steppenwolf ~ Monster
Driving home from south Florida not long ago, the cut Monster by Steppenwolf came round on the iPod. It struck me how relevant it is today 40 years later. Not just to those of us in The U.S. either.
By DawgRiver, on September 23rd, 2009
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Artist: Willy DeVille
Album: Back Streets Of Desire
Label: Forward in UK East West
Released: 1994
There are unusual voices in the world of rock music. Willy DeVille possessed one of the most passionate, primal, raw and expressive voices you will ever hear.
By BlackJack, on September 22nd, 2009
Artist: Pearl Jam
Album: Pearl Jam
Tracks:
1. Life Wasted
2. World Wide Suicide
3. Comatose
4. Severed Hand
5. Marker In The Sand
6. Parachutes
7. Unemployable
8. Big Wave
9. Gone
10. Wasted Reprise
11. Army Reserve
12. Come Back
13. Inside Job
Review: Okay so I am betting most everybody is well familiar with Pearl Jam already, but if you are like me they might have faded [...]