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, […]
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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 […]
Album Review: R.E.M. – Document
Yesterday, while Oregon burned, I took a gander south of my backyard at the haunting smoke enveloping the sky. An unprecedented sight. I walked back in the house and my wife had popped on the […]
Album Review: Metallica – S&M2
Metallica continues to push boundaries and expand their musical horizons, nearly 40 years after these pioneers of heavy metal got their start, with the August 28 release of S&M2, their second live collaboration with the […]
Album Review: Rush – Roll the Bones
September 3, 1991. I left 29 years ago today, far from home, with no way to get Rush’s new album Roll The Bones. Listening to local rock radio 95.5 KLOS throughout the previous month, DJs […]
Album Review: Erasure – The Neon
Erasure was one of a number of synth-heavy bands, riding that mostly awesome keyboard wave in the 1980s, that everyone seemingly listened to back then. Especially the girls! Erasure, OMD, Electronic, New Order, and Pet […]
Album Review: Semisonic – Great Divide
Prior to becoming the band of 1998, Semisonic was a small outfit relatively unknown outside Minneapolis, MN, and maybe movie buffs. Semisonic began in 1995 from the ashes of Trip Shakespeare as singer/guitarist Dan Wilson […]
Album Review: Neon Trees – I Can Feel You Forgetting Me
Rarely does an opening band impress but when Neon Trees opened for Duran Duran in 2011 on the All You Need Is Now tour they were hard not to notice. A tireless frontman in Tyler […]
Album Review: Kansas – The Absence of Presence
Mere days away from seeing Kansas for the first time… …and the country shuts down because of coronavirus. Dang. The show was postponed until after Thanksgiving then postponed again to 2021. Kansas might just get […]
