What music do I play in my car on rainy days when I’m driving to the cemetery? Opeth, no doubt about it. Thing is, I like to listen to Opeth even when it’s not raining and I’m not on my way to the cemetery. It was rather auspicious recently evening...
Maybe it’s just me, but I feel a little ripped off by “In My Dreams,” the first track on James Morrison’s album The Awakening. I have come to expect passion and depth from Morrison and this tune feels as though he has regressed into a...
Heya junkie, So how ya feelin' tahday alla youse sickos? I know I wis a little late'is week gettin' to ya, but I jus' figure that reminds ya who's holdin' da reigns innis relationship. Don't fret too hard though, cause I ain't gonna hold...
At this point, it wouldn't matter what sort of album the Misfits released, it would have a tremendous amount to answer for. The first reason for that is the fact that it's been eleven years since an album of new material came from the band; because of that, the...
Sometimes a concert is more about the memories than it is the music. For the sell-out crowd in Mountain View, CA it didn’t seem to matter much who the personalities were onstage; with very few original members among them, Night Ranger, Foreigner and Journey...
Ever wondered what it might hae sounded like if The Bangles and The Stooges collaborated on an album together? Okay, nobody ever really wonders things like that, but that's fine – it's going to be the first scenario that pops into a listener's mind...
After fifteen years of relative inactivity and diminished returns when a new album did appear, the hope that Jane's Addiction would find a way to redeem itself with some great new music was pretty much at its end. Strays (the band's “great comeback...
Her voice, in my view, has always been Bjork’s defining quality. When experienced while listening to The Sugercubes' 1988 debut record, Life’s Too Good, until now with her eighth studio record, the beautiful Biophilia, you cannot escape the chills that...
The fact that Evanescence has only been around for fifteen years is quite surprising. They certainly aren’t a band who churns out albums year after year but they still manage to sustain strong popularity and a devoted base of fans. Having more than twenty million...
Sometimes the fact that a change is coming to the makeup of pop culture isn't perfectly evident or apparent until the scales become unbalanced and everything is just suddenly different. In moments like that, everyone is simply left to run, catch up and adjust, or...