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Album Reviews
Spin Cycle: Elle Varner, Perfectly Imperfect
Elle Varner is R&B’s next big female soul singer/songwriter. Check out what we think about her debut, “Perfectly Imperfect.”
Spin Cycle: Bob Mould, Silver Age
Bob Mould is back and re-energized with Silver Age, a plugged in new album of 10 originals in the vein of Sugar.
Metal Monday Volume 86 (9.3.12)
Meshuggah better watch their collective backs because a whole new breed of technical metal is out to get them. The latest djent worshipers to spring up is the UK’s Monuments with their Century Media debut, Gnosis. Labelmates Stealing Axion (Read our review here ) may go for the skies in terms of grand ideas, but Monuments goes for the throat from start to finish. While they add atmosphere to everything they do, in essence there is no filler and no letting up. […]
Spin Cycle: Divine Fits, A Thing Called Divine Fits
Indie ‘supergroup’ doesn’t stray too far from the music of Spoon, really, but adds spice of its own from Handsome Furs’ Dan Boeckner and New Bomb Turks’ Sam Brown.
Spin Cycle: Trey Songz, Chapter V
R&B lothario Trey Songz does his best to target every R&B audience imaginable on his latest album, “Chapter V.”
Spin Cycle: Dublin Death Patrol, Death Sentence
Not to contradict myself but the sophomore release from Dublin Death Patrol is the album I wanted when I picked up the latest Testament record, Dark Roots Of Earth. While DROE is a great thrash record, I definitely wanted something more in tone with The Formation Of Damnation or The Gathering. If I wanted something more like The New Order, I’d just go dig in my vaults. Nostalgia is not the case when it comes to DDP. Chuck Billy sounds downright vicious while Steve […]
Spin Cycle: The Fades, Ragnarok
We’ve been talking a lot about UK’s The Fades throughout 2012 and the payoff is finally here as their first proper album, Ragnarok, is finally released. Soon. It’s not out yet. But we’ve heard it, and it’s killer. Soundgarden, Queens of the Stone Age, The Clash, Sex Pistols, early Killing Joke. It’s all in there. And ridiculously cohesive. You’d think that after releasing as diverse singles as they have up til now there wouldn’t be any more surprises and that’s […]
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Spin Cycle: Kiss, Destroyer [Resurrected]
Do you remember the first full-length LP you ever bought? Mine was Kiss’ Destroyer, which I purchased in 1976 at the ripe old age of 10. I got it at the Post Exchange and then waited for my dad to come home from work so that I could listen to it on his 4 channel system rather than the portable turntable my sister and I normally used (and by portable, I mean it folded up into the size of a […]
Spin Cycle: The Darkness, Hot Cakes
Almost a decade after Permission to Land and “I Believe in a Thing Called Love”, The Darkness once again rock out with their collective cock out. Popblerd reviews “Hot Cakes”.
Spin Cycle: Yeasayer, Fragrant World
Yeasayer’s third album is filled with both fruitful and fruitless twists and turns. Popblerd’s KBOX attempts aural navigation in his review of Fragrant World.