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AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE – JINGLE ALL THE WAY (EP Review)

Ah the holidays... the perfect time to gather with friends and family to curl up on the couch for a viewing of the perennial...

KNOCKOUT KID – YOUR NAME ALL OVER IT (EP Review)

As I've been saying all year, 2011 really is ''The Year that Pop-Punk Strikes Back.'' Alongside quality releases from genre heavyweights like NEW FOUND GLORY, YELLOWCARD,...

MICHAEL JACKSON – IMMORTAL (Soundtrack Review)

To approach the release of MICHAEL JACKSON - IMMORTAL as just another ''greatest hits'' or ''best-of'' set would be a mistake that more than a few people are...

VANESSA CARLTON – HEAR THE BELLS EP (Holiday Music Review)

VANESSA CARLTON takes a guitar-driven indie-rock approach to a pair of Holiday classics included on the release of her HEAR THE BELLS EP (out now via Razor...

MEGADETH – TH1RT3EN (Album Review)

It's no secret that I love MEGADETH, and I'll forever be grateful to Dave Mustaine for giving a 16-year-old kid (me) a chance to...

SLIPKNOT – IOWA 10th Anniversary Edition (Review)

I distinctly remember the morning of August 28, 2001. I was in a weird space at the time - technically unemployed, yet I still found...

LESS THAN JAKE – ANTHOLOGY (DVD Review)

When LESS THAN JAKE decides to put out a DVD, they don't just put out a DVD. For ANTHOLOGY, the long-running ska-punk outfit performed six albums in their entirety...

COME AS YOU ARE: A 20th Anniversary Tribute to NIRVANA’s NEVERMIND (Review)

There have already been a lot of track-for-track ''tribute'' albums released to celebrate NEVERMIND, the landmark album by NIRVANA. At least four strike my mind as...

STEEL PANTHER – BALLS OUT (Album Review)

A lot of people have said that STEEL PANTHER ''would've been huge'' had they hit the scene within the mid-late 80's hair metal boom. While entirely possible,...

DUB TRIO – IV (Album Review)

DUB TRIO's IV is easily one of my favorite records of 2011. Packing 40-minutes of music into a 9-track package, IV is a freight train of sound that...

MIKE PATTON – THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS (Music From The Film and Inspired By the Book) Review

I am indeed one of ''those people.'' Yes, ''those people'' that rabidly look forward to the release of anything involving FAITH NO MORE/TOMAHAWK/FANTOMAS/MR. BUNGLE/LOVEAGE/MONDO CANE/PEEPING TOM/countless...

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – AMERICAN CAPITALIST (Album Review)

If they didn't make it clear on 2009's WAR IS THE ANSWER, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH are a divisive outfit when it comes to their sonic merits....

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