REVIEWS: CARBON/SILICON - [ALBUM]

Carbon/Silicon - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: Carbon/Silicon - [Album]
DATE: 05-17-08
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
What do you get when you mix members of The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite, Generation X, Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Reef? Everyone has a sound in their minds right now - no doubt about it - but, whatever you’re thinking, you’d be wrong. In point of fact that conglomeration is what makes up Carbon/Silicon and, from note one, track one of [view more]

REVIEWS: KATE NASH - [LIVE]

Kate Nash - [Live] PHOTO
ARTIST: Kate Nash - [Live]
show date: may 13, 2008
VENUE: The Fillmore, S.F.
DATE: 05-17-08
REVIEW BY: Mark Ziemke
PHOTO: Muhammad Asranur
The final date of Kate Nash’s month-long U.S. ended at historic Fillmore in San Francisco and Ground Control was there to [view more]

REVIEWS: IRON MAIDEN - [ALBUM]

Iron Maiden - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: Iron Maiden - [Album]
plus summer tour dates for the Somewhere Back in Time tour
DATE: 05-16-08
REVIEW BY: Scott Craig
Audio
Ahhh the 80s…a simpler time when email, the Internet and Blackberrys were things we just saw in movies like Back to the Future and weren’t everyday necessities. This was also a time when music choices weren't as complicated—the choice was pretty much 80s pop or heavy metal. Those were my Jr. High and High School [view more]

REVIEWS: PUNCH BROTHERS - [ALBUM]

Punch Brothers - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: Punch Brothers - [Album]
DATE: 05-15-08
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
On the list of peculiar things to define in print, Punch Brothers’ new album cross-wires the typically upbeat nature of old-timey hill music with the shadows of Southern Gothic before placing the hybrid in a high-brow concert hall context complete with classically styled compositional forms. It’s like listening to tales of hellfire [view more]

REVIEWS: MILLENCOLIN - [ALBUM]

Millencolin - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: Millencolin - [Album]
DATE: 05-15-08
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
Times have changed at Epitaph Records. In the last few years, the label has seen the departure of several large-draw bands (including Pennywise, Rancid and Dropkick Murphys among others) and in their place have arrived less than punk-inclined names like Lyrics Born, Sage Francis, Man Man and The Coup. Epitaph is expanding and growing out of its [view more]

REVIEWS: J. SPACEMAN AND SUN CITY GIRLS - [ALBUM]

J. Spaceman and Sun City Girls - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: J. Spaceman and Sun City Girls - [Album]
DATE: 05-13-08
REVIEW BY: Tatiana Simonian
Audio

When you're making a film whose premise seems strangely surreal and psychedelic (celebrity impersonators holed up in a mythical place), it seems only natural to have a soundtrack scored by a guy who has referred to himself as J. Spaceman in liner notes for quite some time now. Add to it the psychedelic twang and [view more]

COLUMN: LINE HER NOTES ENTRY.006

Line Her Notes Entry.006 PHOTO
ARTIST: Line Her Notes Entry.006
Oh, Jesus, walk my little sex dwarf
DATE: 05-13-08
WRITER: Tatiana Simonian
Audio

Rock journalists have varied personal musical histories, and as far as I go, I have the worst. A.) My first concert was New Kids on the Block B.) My first vinyl was Chipmunks sing the Beatles and C.) My super Christian parents banned 95 percent of my record [view more]

REVIEWS: BILLY BRAGG - [ALBUM]

Billy Bragg - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: Billy Bragg - [Album]
DATE: 05-13-08
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
What can be said about Billy Bragg that hasn't been said since the singer first appeared thirty-three years ago? In that time, he's been revered in his native UK as a national treasure, he's had a celebrated solo career, and has also found time to sit in and record albums with everyone from Less Than Jake to Wilco. He`s been afforded [view more]

REVIEWS: GONZALES - [ALBUM]

Gonzales - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: Gonzales - [Album]
DATE: 05-12-08
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
At some point, megalomania, ego and vanity eventually give way to genuinely bizarre, deviant behavior and with Soft Power, singer/songwriter/producer Gonzales has found - and crossed - that point. On first listen to Soft Power, the average modern rock listener’s brain recoils in horror as the lead-off track “Working [view more]

REVIEWS: NIGHT MARCHERS - [LIVE]

Night Marchers - [Live] PHOTO
ARTIST: Night Marchers - [Live]
show date: 5.7.08
VENUE: Mercury Lounge
DATE: 05-12-08
REVIEW BY: Scott Homiak
PHOTO: Thomas Shelley
If superfluous memory serves me correct, I believe I lost my virginity listening to Scream, Dracula, Scream by Rocket From The Crypt. Thirteen years after the release of that monumental album, I found myself at the Mercury Lounge, near the famous Katz's Deli (where a sandwich costs more than my ticket for the night's show), [view more]

REVIEWS: RUSH - [LIVE]

Rush - [Live] PHOTO
ARTIST: Rush - [Live]
show date: 5.4.08
VENUE: Sleep Train Pavilion, Concord, CA
DATE: 05-11-08
REVIEW BY: Raymond Ahner
PHOTO: Tracy Nunnery

I'll be the first to admit that I had always kind of taken Rush for granted. When a band has been around over 35 years, it's easy to say, "Oh, Rush will be touring again, I'll catch them next time.” Well, after saying that to myself year after year, I finally went and saw Rush live and from the opening power chords of [view more]

REVIEWS: THE MATCHES - [ALBUM]

The Matches - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: The Matches - [Album]
DATE: 05-09-08
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
There is no punk band currently working that is so strikingly unique as The Matches. Last time out, the band shocked listeners when it turned the genre upside down, shook it violently and handed their audience a slightly fractured and very abstract group of songs to try and decode with little or no explanation. For A Band In Hope though, [view more]

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