Panic When You Find It is one of those albums that can be just harmonic noise in the background or something you can really get into, depending on how much attention you give it. The guitar tones are usually clear, and the times distortion is used, it is done so sparingly and creatively. The entire [...]
17
Dec
2009
Panic When You Find It By Young And Sexy
Tags: Album, Alternative, Brass, Calm, Cold Sides, Panic When You Find It, Review, Turn On Your Weakness, Without Your Love, Young And Sexy, Your Enemy's Asleep
22
Nov
2009
No More Stories From Mew
Tags: 2009, Album, Alternative, And The Glass Handed Kites, Danish, EP, Filler, Frengers, Fugazi, Hawaii, Hidden Track, Indie, Jeniferever, Mazzy Star, Mew, Music Reviews, Nervous, No More Stories, Record, Review, Ride, Single, Sometimes Life Isn't Easy, The Smashing Pumpkins
Those sad little Danish boys are at it again, and after an album as epic as And The Glass Handed Kites it was easy to get excited about what Mew would do next. This record isn’t quite as epic as their last, and not nearly as poppy as the ones that came before, but still [...]
29
Oct
2009
Discussion: The Resistance by Muse
Tags: 1984, 2009, Absolution, Album, Alternative, B-Sides, Black Holes And Revelations, Discussion, Exogenesis, Feeling Good, Glorious, Highlander, Lawrence of Arabia, Live, Muse, Piano, Pictures, Queen, Single, The Resistance, Track By Track, Undisclosed Desires, United States Of Eurasia, Van Halen
Mac, Austin, and Steve discuss the latest Muse release, The Resistance, track by track. There were mixed feelings on the album; different for each person in the discussion.
15
Oct
2009
Triad: Three Bands, Six Songs
Tags: Alternative, Battle of Mice, Compilation, Dark, EP, Female, Instrumental, Julie Christmas, Made Out of Babies, Music Reviews, Progressive, Progressive Rock, Red Sparowes, Review, Rock, The Mars Volta, Triad
I knew Triad was going to be unusual before I even heard it. It had six songs on it; two from each band. The cover looked interesting, too, consisting of a nice blend of grays and reds, and it was mirrored down the middle. The CD was entirely black, but had a textured design on [...]
08
Oct
2009
An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess
Tags: Album, Alternative, An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess, Dream Theater, Guitar, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, Piano, Review, Virtuoso
An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess juxatposes two of today’s most skillful virtuosos. Real-life friends and Dream Theater bandmates, Petrucci and Rudess take us on a journey deep into the night, through a diverse range of styles and long improvisations. “Fife And Drum” has all the quaintness of a Renaissance-era English party song, while “Bite Of The Mosquito” sends us on a frantic journey through a day in the life of one of the little bloodsuckers.