Music Reviews
Minnie Driver can sing - and she's a sweeatheart
I imagine I'll have this conversation more than once over the next few days...
Gojira: From Mars to Sirius
Progressive metal, as a whole, combines the ferocity and and aggression of metal with the intricate song structures, soft interludes, and extended song lengths of progressive rock. And there are few bands that do it better than Gojira.
Lifehouse: Who We Are
Lifehouse's fourth outing, this time with producer Jude Cole at the helm, finds the band in a more chipper mood...
Alexi Murdoch: Time Without Consequence
The words in your love, my salvation lies in your love echoed in my mind until finally I had to run to my computer and google the words...
Pantera: Far Beyond Driven
Far Beyond Driven brings a less polished but just as competent sound to the table. The album art serves as a perfect caption for the album: it is a sonic drill to the skull...
Transcript of iProng's interview with MoZella
Where did your name come from? "Yeah, well Mo is a nickname since I've been a little kid"...
Transcript of iProng's interview with Pete Yorn
What about your next album? "I think it might be about bowling"...
Red Hot Chili Peppers live at Voodoo
In a set that lasted two hours and featured a jam session with a quartet of New Orleans legends...
Slayer: Christ Illusion
The Slayer of today is very different from the one an earlier generation knew and loved, but they're every bit as heavy. The album's svelte 38 minutes packs in a lot of music so to speak, and in true Slayer fashion a straight-through listen can be pretty exhausting...
Mandatory Metallica #1: Kill 'Em All
Being a longtime fan and devotee, the newfound opportunity to write about their works was like, well, Christmas in July. But I wasn’t sure of where to start, so where better to kick things off than at the beginning? Back in 1983, when few outside of the Bay Area thrash metal scene knew about the band. Back when they had just relocated to El Cerrito from Los Angeles. Back when they rolled through Iowa, and a 16-year boy who would become my dad saw them open up for Wasp, a band they would go on to greatly eclipse...
Concert: Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band
What do you do when you're the former drummer of the world's most famous band and you want to go on tour, but you don't want to spend the whole evening in front of the microphone?
The 4th Of July Hard Rock Playlist
This week, instead of doing another album review, I decided I’d mix it up a little in honor of the American holiday where we celebrate our independence...
Audiobook: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
For fans of the Harry Potter series, the audiobooks are a fun new dimension to Harry's world. For those who are new to the series...
Sepultura: Beneath The Remains
Originally from Brazil, the band comprised the brothers Cavalera (vocalist Max and drummer Igor), bassist Paulo Jr., and Jairo Guedez on the guitar. They gained a major US release after two records, the Bestial Devastation EP and Morbid Visions. Jairo was then replaced by axeman Andreas Kisser. Their third, Schizophrenia, heightened their profile in the States. Their prime chance to bust into the burgeoning thrash metal scene was there, if they could put out more quality work and grab it...
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium
No matter which corner of RHCP’s fan base you come from, there’s something here for you. You may be an old school mosher, someone who just became familiar with their music, or someone who found them in their 90s heyday...
Godsmack: IV
This Boston-based quartet has been low on the radar since 2003’s Faceless. But like a Superball they’ve bounced back once again, and they don’t appear to have lost a step during their hiatus...
Anthrax: Spreading The Disease
Disease shows off a new sense of individuality in the band’s sound, seemingly separated a fair bit more from the glam metal of their debut, Fistful Of Metal...
Static-X: Shadow Zone
On my never-ending hunt for tunes, I found this album. In my opinion it is the most underrated work they have put out to date...
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Dani California
Red Hot Chili Peppers bass guitarist Flea recently said that if you don't like the band's new album, Stadium Arcadium, then you don't like the Red Hot Chili Peppers. If the album's first five minutes are any indication, then I'm inclined to agree with him...
Opeth: Ghost Reveries
Last Tuesday, I set out to download the song “Ghost Of Perdition” by Opeth after hearing it on the radio...
Trivium: Ascendancy
It is a perfect specimen of a metalcore tour de force, an album that keeps you wanting more, and just when one component retreats, another rushes in to overcome your ears and carry it along.
Disturbed: Ten Thousand Fists
Ten Thousand Fists, the third offering by Chicago-based metal band Disturbed, features a composition overhaul that is for the most part refreshing...
The Black Crowes: live in concert
Any band whose singer and guitarist are brothers is generally a ticking time bomb, and the brothers Robinson always seemed especially destined to kill each other or break up their band while trying to do so...
NETTWERK Label Spotlight with ‘Semantic Spaces’ by Delerium
I was cruising the iTMS for this weeks selection, when out of the corner of my eye, I saw the advert for the ‘NETTWERK’ Label Spotlight...
What Did I Buy from the iTMS with my $50 gift card I received for my birthday?
For this week’s installment, I thought I would take a detour from the normal review structure and offer the readers a little insight on what I decided to buy from the iTMS...
