Every Christmas season, I brush the dust off one album that gets spun in its entirety at least once. I have kept this tradition alive since Merry Axemas – A Guitar Christmas was released in […]
Category: Album Reviews
Album Review: Smashing Pumpkins – Cyr
The Smashing Pumpkins released their 11th studio album today, the ambitious 20-song double-album Cyr that departs a bit from the band’s core alternative rock roots to employ softer guitar chords while embracing a heavier reliance […]
Album Review: AC/DC – Power Up
Someone I knew long ago described AC/DC as simple 4/4 time rock, but a fun listen. He was one of these wannabe guitar player types who sat around with axe in hand but couldn’t play […]
Album Review: Midnight Oil – The Makarrata Project
The politically active Australian rock band Midnight Oil released their first true album of new material in nearly 20 years today in the seven track, 33 minute long The Makarrata Project, a mostly artsy, almost […]
Album Review: Brothers Osborne – Skeletons
Cool looking album cover. I think I’ve heard of them but can’t say for sure. Let’s give it a shot. Brothers Osborne. A country rock group it turns out, and as the name suggests, brothers […]
Album Review: Bon Jovi – 2020
What happened to Jon Bon Jovi’s voice? It sounds like him but it doesn’t sound like him. And that’s all I could focus on while listening to Bon Jovi’s 15th studio album 2020, out today, […]
Album Review: Rush – Test for Echo
The Beatles have the White Album. Metallica has the Black Album. Rush has the Maligned Album. Test For Echo. Hardly a favorite among the Rush elite, Test for Echo, the band’s 16th studio album, was […]
Top 10 Best* New Order Songs
The suicide of singer Ian Curtis tore the band Joy Division apart in 1980 but the surviving members of Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephan Morris soldiered on reforming as New Order then capitalizing on […]
Album Review: Semisonic – You’re Not Alone
Well, what took so long? After decades of inactivity, ok maybe a little exaggeration but not by much, Semisonic returns with the EP You’re Not Alone, the band’s first collection of new music in nearly […]
Album Review: D.I. – Ancient Artifacts
Growing up in Orange County, CA during the 80s, little did I know that a wave of punk rock music had washed ashore that would etch its mark on the music landscape forever. Probably, because […]
