Bob Dylan - Music Review: Bob Dylan - Down In The Groove

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In 2007 Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Down In The Groove as the worst Bob Dylan album. The real bad news is they were right or at least close to it. I almost combined a review of this album with my last, Knocked Out Loaded. The albums are similar and in a way each does not deserve their own full review.

Down In The Grove finds Dylan at a low point in his career. There is no “Brownsville Girl” to provide a ray of hope. The songs come...

The Nightwatchman - Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman The Fabled City

While the bulk of Tom Morello’s post-Rage Against The Machine political activism has taken place away from the microphone, with Axis Of Justice (an grass-roots alliance formed with System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian) and various other left-wing protest groups, he has in recent years cultivated a folk singer alter-ego under the alias The Nightwatchman. Perturbed by the United States’ endless fascination with electing conservatives, Morello took his creation out on the road in the run-up to the 2004 election, and when Audioslave finally stuttered to a halt in 2007 he took the persona a stage further and issued his...

Mercury Rev - Mercury Rev - Strange Attractor

It seems that everyone is doing it, giving away their music for free that is, or at least nearly free (I was one of the few who actually paid proper money for 'In Rainbows�). Now, hot on the heels of their latest album release, 'Midnight Snowflake�, Mercury Rev have given those on their email list the chance to download it�s companion album, an ambient collection of eleven instrumentals. So, whilst my copy of 'Midnight Snowflake� is still in the post, I thought I�d start with this offering first.

The Dandy Warhols - The Dandy Warhols - Earth To The Dandy Warhols

I am rubbing the glass-shard-filled head of a 300-pound guy named Pink Eyes. Damian Abraham, vocalist for the hipster-punk-baiting Fucked Up, is telling me about a recent bout with a pint glass in Calgary. “Someone handed me a glass in such a way that I just kind of pushed it into my head,” says Abraham. “We played two more songs, hung out for a bit, then decided to go to the hospital.” Abraham now sports a hunk of glass buried just above his left eyebrow; the back of his head boasts a similar set of collected beer bottle shards. “I...

Underoath - Underoath - Lost In The Sound Of Separation (2008)

Ok, so after listening to this album fully through, I have to say. Im mildly disappointed. I was expecting a lot more form this group. Underoath put out an amazing album in 2004 with They're Only Chasing Safety. But this? It's too...mindless. Don't get me wrong. The instrumentals are good, and Spencer Chamberlain's screaming are both good, but it seems as if they aren't going anywhere anymore. They have gone a lot heavier in this record. I guess i was a sucker for the more poppy feel in TOCS.  

Now the record does have it's points. the section from We...

Radiohead - New Robbie Williams Album Due In 2009 | The Question Is: Does Anyone Care?

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And then he moved to L.A., lost touch with reality, lost songwriter Guy Chambers, and then released Rudebox, one the most ill-conceived and overblown albums I’ve ever heard.

Not much has been seen of Williams over the past year. There have been the odd dalliances with the press, including the latest rumour that the singer is obsessed by UFOs and...

Tesla - Tesla: 'I Wanna Live' video posted online

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Mercury Rev - Mercury Rev - Senses On Fire

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Don’t let the sedate start to the record fool you, once the track bursts into action, its pulsating electronic rhythm and building vocals create...

Bob Dylan - This Week’s New Reviews: Bob Dylan, Oasis, Rise Against and More

The latest entry in Bob Dylan’s “Bootleg Series” leads the slate of new releases hitting stores today. Dylan’s Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 collects three discs worth of outtakes, b-sides and live tracks from his late-career resurgence, starting in 1989. Mikal Gilmore says “This collection bears witness to Dylan’s reclamation of voice and perspective. He had been a singular visionary who upended rock & roll by recasting it as a force that could question society’s values and politics, but he relinquished that calling as the society grew more dangerous.” Click below for the complete write-up of Tell...

Underoath - Underoath - Lost In The Sound Of Separation

"An explosive introduction hammers into the moody twisted metal of ‘A Fault Line, A Fault Of Mine’, and the whipping, snapping crash of ‘The Only Survivor…’ and it’s breathless stuff. But while these songs bark and bite hard, Underoath have blessed their animal attack with not just fiery rage but fierce intelligence too."

Plenty of people are calling this a sequel. They’re being nice about it, sure, but they’re determined to paint ‘Lost In The Sound Of Separation’ not as Underoath’s new album, their sixth believe it or not, but as a mere continuation of 06's ‘Define the Great Line’. That...