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YELLOWCARD – WHEN YOU’RE THROUGH THINKING, SAY YES (Album Review)

Nearly a decade ago, I recall seeing a private performance by YELLOWCARD in a non-descript ballroom hidden deep within the bowels of Caesar's Palace in Las...

CAVALERA CONSPIRACY – BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA (Album Review)

It would be impossible to discuss the collective works of the Brothers Cavalera without making comparisons to their vast, yet very similar other works....

BLACKGUARD – FIREFIGHT (Album Review)

When a melodic death metal band chooses a name that could represent a character from either DUNGEONS & DRAGONS or WARHAMMER, you have a...

THE STROKES – ANGLES (Album Review)

I was working for the now-defunct Sam Goody a decade ago when THE STROKES burst onto the scene with their now-classic album IS THIS...

AMON AMARTH – SURTUR RISING (Album Review)

AMON AMARTH have had the Viking corner of the death metal world on lock for years, and with the release of SURTUR RISING (out March 29th via Metal Blade),...

TRUSTcompany – DREAMING IN BLACK AND WHITE (Album Review)

With a quick rise and fall marked by a pair of Geffen-released albums, Alabama'sTRUSTcompany quickly dropped off the mainstream radar, announcing a hiatus in the...

BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE – CELESTIAL COMPLETION (Album Review)

Earthquakes. Tsunamis. Nuclear meltdowns. If the Mayans were correct in ending their calendar with the presumption that the world will end in 2012, then...

SOUNDGARDEN – LIVE ON I-5 (Album Review)

When the Seattle titans from SOUNDGARDEN reunited in 2010 for a string of live dates that included a stop at Lollapalooza in Chicago, many...

BILLY JOEL – LIVE AT SHEA STADIUM (CD/DVD Review)

BILLY JOEL is a true American badass. With four decades of musical output behind him, and a series of legendary personal exploits, there's little to...

AARON LEWIS – TOWN LINE (EP Review)

When I first heard that STAIND frontman AARON LEWIS was prepping a country record, my first response was to question whether it was genuine, or if...

KIDS OF 88 – JUST A LITTLE BIT (EP Review)

Having already been in release in their native New Zealand for quite some time, it's a wonder that KIDS OF 88's JUST A LITTLE...

UNWRITTEN LAW – SWAN (Track-by-track Advance Album Review)

If you need solid proof that the great pop-punk comeback of 2011 is in-progress, look no further than UNWRITTEN LAW. Their first set of all-new material in...

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