There was a time when a new R.E.M. album was highly anticipated and greeted eagerly, but that was twenty years ago. Now, the announcement of a new release from Georgia's favorite sons is more likely greeted with a shrug than a cheer. Why? Well, what does R.E.M....
BitTorrent Inc., a leading innovator creating advanced technologies to efficiently move large files across the Internet, today announced that Sick of Sarah’s album 2205 has been downloaded over one million times since launch on February 15, according to trackers...
Listen to enough music and you start to notice patterns in the names that bands take; sometimes those names are little hints at what your ears will be getting into. For example, if it’s something offbeat and whimsical, the band probably plays some kind of indie...
With the release of Endgame, Rise Against commemorates it's ninth year as a band and, while that time has been marked by lineup changes, label changes and other alterations in the band's design and focus, this year marks the first time significant changes have...
As a point of clarification, I have to ask: who exactly coined the phrase “stoner rock” and applied it to languid, reasonably atonal and/or drone-y rock n' roll? It definitely wasn't a bunch of stoners, nor was it anyone who regularly associates...
Back in 2000, at the ripe old age of fifteen, I was introduced to a type of music that broke the mould of what I believed heavy metal to be. Metal to me was brash, ugly and dark. Down-tuned power chords and blast beats. Children Of Bodom’s Follow The Reaper swept...
The thing about first impressions is that they're perfectly superficial; whether they're good or bad is irrelevant because they're only representative of the tip of the iceberg and what lies beneath the surface might be considerably more substantial. In...
On Go-Go Boots, their eleventh studio record in just twelve years, The Drive-By Truckers are focused on the softer or more acoustic side of their sound. While most of their records have featured these quieter songs, this is their first album to focus entirely on their...
One of the fringe benefits to being in a band is that you're able to see the world doing something you love. Really, how great is that? If you're in a band and brave enough to hit the road in support of an album you made, there is the outside possibility that...
From the opening moments of her new album Blessed, it is clear that Lucinda Williams has some spring back in her step. That's not to say that she ever "lost it" – both 2006's West and 2008's Little Honey had some great moments – but...