Ten years ago, Rush released a never before heard live album. It featured “new” songs for many and though it didn’t reach a fever pitch, ABC 1974 did move the needle quite a bit. Rush ABC 1974 recorded the band’s … Continue reading Album Review: Rush – ABC 1974
I saw Social Distortion for the first time in 1990 at Crawford Hall at University of California Irvine. It was pretty much a large gym. The memories that remain include the deafening decibels (seriously, it was brutal) and one of … Continue reading Album Review: Screaming Trees – Something About Today
Decades ago, one of the Holy Grail’s in punk music was Social Distortion’s 1983 album Mommy’s Little Monster released on Triple X Records. If you found s copy on vinyl or CD you pretty much had gold in your hands. … Continue reading Album Review: Social Distortion – Mommy’s Little Monster
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 1997 an album featuring 11 … Continue reading Album Review: Merry Axemas
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 on synthesizers and drum machine … Continue reading Album Review: Smashing Pumpkins – Cyr
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 two bars of a song … Continue reading Album Review: AC/DC – Power Up
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 spoken word album rather than … Continue reading Album Review: Midnight Oil – The Makarrata Project
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 John and TJ Osborne hold … Continue reading Album Review: Brothers Osborne – Skeletons
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, mostly a collection of soft … Continue reading Album Review: Bon Jovi – 2020
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 released earlier this month in … Continue reading Album Review: Rush – Test for Echo
