The coronavirus pandemic canceled Third Eye Blind’s 2020 tour (the second leg) for their Screamer album, released in 2019, so what better way to make up for it than to spend time on a new material resulting in their seventh … Continue reading Album Review: Third Eye Blind – Our Bande Apart
Thrice released their 11th studio album Horizons/East this month, the southern Californian band’s third since ending a hiatus in 2015, with an already 12th album forthcoming in the works titled Horizons/West. Thrice retains the four original members in singer and … Continue reading Album Review: Thrice – Horizons/East
The field for 2021 Album of the Year just got a bit more crowded. Daughtry released their sixth studio album Dearly Beloved, today (Sept. 17), a genuinely pleasing hard rock album from beginning to end filled with modern rock melodies, … Continue reading Album Review: Daughtry – Dearly Beloved
Samantha Fish released Faster today (Sept. 10), her seventh solo album in a record that indeed indicates a concerted effort on quicker-paced tempos, a bolder more melodic sound and a bigger embrace of rock, while overall showing she has come … Continue reading Album Review: Samantha Fish – Faster
Imagine Dragons break some new ground while retaining their core sound on their fifth album Mercury – Act 1, out today, but mostly walk back into their own self-achieved genre. Finding immediate success with their smash debut album Night Visions … Continue reading Album Review: Imagine Dragons – Mercury – Act 1
Toad the Wet Sprocket released Starting Now today, their seventh studio album and first in eight years, stepping a bit outside of their usual range but ultimately staying within the confines of comfortable rock songs that peaceably relax but sometimes … Continue reading Album Review: Toad the Wet Sprocket – Starting Now
Megadeth unplugged? I’m in. The heavy metal giants forever fronted by singer, guitarist and co-founder Dave Mustaine released Unplugged in Boston last week, previously only available to fan club members, from a live 2001 radio broadcast in a fully stripped … Continue reading Album Review: Megadeth – Unplugged in Boston
Lots of people surely used the coronavirus pandemic to redefine themselves, make changes in their lives or find new meaning. This, of course, filters into their working life proven, perhaps, by the various headlines in the last year indicating people … Continue reading Album Review: Switchfoot – Interrobang
Thirty years ago today the album that ruled college campuses across the nation, changed the direction and scope of the band, and split a fan base was released with much acclaim and extraordinary sales. Metallica’s self-titled fifth record, also known … Continue reading Album Review: Metallica – The Black Album
Those two guys on that show you watch will never go anywhere. A paraphrased quote – thus no quotation marks – attributed to my mom. She was only half right but one of the very few times my mom was … Continue reading Album Review: Miami Vice Soundtrack (1985)
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