Recent Reviews

There’s a certain type of person who can’t approach a Cure concert objectively. It’s automatically going to be amazing, because it’s three hours of The Cure. I am one of those people. Just getting to ...

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The Dirtbombs wasted no time. From the moment they stepped on stage at the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern on April 21 to the last song they rocked, no breathers wanted or needed.

Kelly Stol...

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Fuck Bono. Fuck U2 3D.If you are going to spend money on a rock'n'roll movie rent or buy this. As if to reinforce this point, the most cringe-worthy moment in "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritt...

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5/14/15/51/58/70/86. Winning lottery numbers? The secret to Lost? Nope. That’s how my Top 10 faired in Bob Mersereau’s much-debated new coffee-table book, The Top 100 Canadian Albums. Mersereau, a res...

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Having had past dealings in a record company setting with both Slash and Nikki Sixx, it was interesting to read, back-to-back, The Heroin Diaries by Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx, and the self-titled book ...

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When did Mars Volta’s music fall so far astray from the epic heights of sheer vitriol and force that was so evident on your excellent debut album? When tracks like “Eriakarta” promised future innovati...

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Hate Eternal’s follow-up to their 2005 album I, Monarch is just as brutal as the last. There are an unrelenting amount of kinetic blast beats, and double kicks abound. The St. Petersburg, Florida base...

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The most notable, striking feature of In Rainbows, may not simply be that Radiohead chose to release the album in a now well publicized and vaunted “pay what you choose” manner, but that this is the f...

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