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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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

EVILE – FIVE SERPENT’S TEETH (Album Review)

I've been sitting on a copy of FIVE SERPENT'S TEETH, the third album from UK thrashers EVILE since early September and almost feel a bit bad that...

LOU REED & METALLICA – LULU (Album Review)

Unsettling and uneasy would be two words to describe LULU, the forthcoming collaborative effort between former VELVET UNDERGROUND frontman LOU REED and ''Big 4'' topliners METALLICA. The...

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