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After releasing a glittery and sleazy breakthrough rock record with the Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites in 2006 and going on to produce a series of similar sounding albums for Avril Lavigne, The Academy Is… and Hot Hot Heat in the time since, it was perfectly...

Monday, 15 December 2008
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The subtitle reads "How Everything They Touched Turned to Gold." But this book makes it obvious the subtitle should continue, "and how they got almost none of it." The back cover, continuing the cheerful hype, states that The Beatles ended up...

Monday, 15 December 2008
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I'm usually a little leery of press releases and their claims. But when the PR for Andy Yorke's Simple states, "In spite of this promise Andy found… personal demons driving him to write," I believe it. These songs definitely feel...

Sunday, 14 December 2008
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There are some things that simply do not get talked about in the music industry and primary on that list is the behind-the-scenes work and designs that go into presenting a monumental concert. Usually the only times that audiences notice “the little things”...

Saturday, 13 December 2008
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Oasis are not really a skeleton in my musical closet, but have just been one of those bands I have just quietly liked for years. Not only have I always loved their fuck-all attitudes, I've also always admired their abilities to write an amazing pop song, fill it...

Saturday, 13 December 2008
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If all you’ve seen of Ween from a live performance standpoint is the fantastic DVD released in 2004 presenting an inspired set by the current line-up of Mickey Melchiondo (aka Dean Ween) on guitar, Aaron Freeman (aka Gene Ween) on vocals and guitar, drummer...

Friday, 12 December 2008
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Very similar to the phenomenon that found Marc Bolan and T. Rex get some attention and recognition in the Sixties, so did the wave of interest in a particular sound and style crest in the Seventies that left flotsam like Mott The Hoople on the banks of popular taste....

Friday, 12 December 2008
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There is no doubt that with the release and runaway success of 2007’s Infinity On High, Fall Out Boy broke onto an all-new level of stardom as songs including “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race,” “The Carpel Tunnel Of Love”...

Friday, 12 December 2008
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Michigan-based psychologist Susan Nolen-Hoeksema recently published a book contending that the human race’s capacity to agonize over even the most trivial of events has now given way to an epidemic of morbid meditation that could prove to be the single greatest...

Thursday, 11 December 2008
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Michigan-based psychologist Susan Nolen-Hoeksema recently published a book   contending that the human race’s capacity to agonize over even the most trivial of events has now given way to an epidemic of morbid meditation that could prove to be the single...

Thursday, 11 December 2008
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