Good day my troubled brothers and sisters!I have had an awakening! An epiphany! I have seen the error of my ways – seen the light – and wanted to share the good word with you! Life is worth living, and the singer who showed me the way was Zacardi Cortez. I...
In some cases, it's just impossible to appreciate something until you hear it. Such a claim may seem dubious, but it's true – and the proof is contained on Hawkeyes' new cassette, Poison Slows You Down. Yes, you read that right – it's a...
"Here's a story,” said Paul Westerberg during the reformed Replacements' performance at Riot Fest in Toronto, “Sitting on the stairs of the bus and I pass a paper over for a signature. James Osterberg writes back, "I owe you nothing"...
Every now and then, we like to make an exception here at Ground Control for great albums which are not exactly current, but are so great we kick ourselves for not having been the ones that brought them to your attention in the first place. In this edition of the Vinyl...
Selena Gomez "just want to party all night/ in the neon light" ("Slow Down"), and she makes no excuses about it. Oh, wait, yes she does. "Tell them it's my birthday," she sings, "when I party like that"...
It is really hard to create music which evokes a previous era without sounding imitative, but Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros pull it off. Listening to their self-titled third album puts you in a time warp back to the late Sixties. Yet only a couple of the songs...
It would be hard to say that the last couple of years haven't been uncertain ones for GWAR. That isn't to say there was any concern that the band wouldn't continue after the untimely passing of guitarist Cory Smoot in 2011 (GWAR's the kind of band which...
It's funny how, as time has passed, the public's perception of Elvis Presley has changed. Outside of the singer's most devout supporters (of which there continue to be a staggering number), everyone knows Elvis as the hip-swingin' King of Rock n'...
Haya doin'ere, junky? I'm havin' a diff'rent kinda day taday, 'at's fer shoor. I'm sittin'ere, listenin' ta old Elvis Presley reckids – c'n youse buh-lieve it? I'm innat kinda bloated, indulgent mood taday. I's...
While there's no doubt that his voice is loaded with a healthy amount of excitement in conversation, there's no question that the dominant tone in singer Chris Cresswell's voice is one of relieved satisfaction. It wasn't easy, but everything is finally...