The opening tom hits and fuzzbox riffs that start Indigo Meadow give the indication that this is yet another turn on the Black Angels' merry-go-round of stoner rock and neo-psychedelia. However, the third song, "Don't Play with Guns," takes a ...

Losing John Frusciante for a second time doesn't send the Red Hot Chili Peppers into a tailspin. By now, the Chili Peppers shed guitarists like a second skin, changing their outer layer but retaining their inner core. Such is the ...

SIGNIFICANT OTHER is an Enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Additional personnel includes: Method Man, Les Claypool, Matt Pinfield, Anita Durst, Mathematics (vocals); Scott Borland (keyboards); Jonathan Davis, Aaron Lewis (background vocals). SIGNIFICANT OTHER was nominated ...

The Cowboy Junkies' The Wilderness completes the band's ambitious Nomad Series project -- which saw them release four new albums in an 18-month period -- with a set of new songs that play across a wide range of emotional settings. Recording ...

When the Melvins teamed up with Big Business, it felt like they were, in effect, creating a sort of "Melvins squared." Jared Warren and Coady Willis seemed to be a perfect fit with Crover and Osborne, with the two pairs ...

Audio Mixers: Mike Green ; Nick Trevisick. Recording information: ARS Studios, Orlando, FL; Bigger Dog Studio, Franklin, TN; Stone Gables Studio, Brentwood, TN; The Skyview Church Of Tone And Soul, East Nashville, TN; Wisner Productions, St. Cloud, FL. Photographer: John Deeb. Paramore: John ...

Recorded live during the Joshua Tree Tour in the U.S. and Europe in 1987. Functioning as both the soundtrack to U2's feature film documentary and as a tentative follow-up to their career-making blockbuster, Rattle and Hum is a bit messy. A ...

The Heavy's third studio album, 2012's The Glorious Dead is a bombastic acid rock, funk, and blues-soaked album that sounds like the illegitimate offspring of the Black Keys and Gnarls Barkley. In that sense, it builds nicely upon the Heavy's ...

The Head and the Heart were still a young unsigned band when they released this self-titled debut in June 2010. A mix of Northwestern folk and homespun Americana, the album attracted the attention of several labels. The group wound up ...

Maybe the pop-rock-reggae crew the Dirty Heads watched Iration climb the charts or Kenny Chesney make a cottage industry out of the beach-life soundtrack, or maybe those "trees" they're smoking in many of the songs here have had a more ...

Sublime's music and lifestyle were unique in their time, as the band celebrated both the irreverence of punk sans anger and political hang-ups, and the mellow party spirit embodied by the hippie generation sans philosophical baggage and ridiculous outfits. In ...

Released one year after the show it documents, this three-disc live album combines audio and video footage of the John Butler Trio's performance at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado. Songs from the band's first three studio albums are ...

This is an Enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "Learn To Fly" won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Short ...

While Marilyn Manson's approach was hardly original (in fact, many of the band's gimmicks could be directly linked to bands past), few rock groups on a major label had been so unashamedly confrontational and unapologetic. In fact, all the members ...

James Mercer and Danger Mouse (aka Brian Burton) want their project Broken Bells to be seen, and heard, as an honest-to-goodness band, not a side-project dalliance. It's a little tricky to do that when first listening to their self-titled debut ...

At the time of its release, Modern Vampires of the City was touted as a "deeper" offering from Vampire Weekend. While that's true to an extent, that also downplays the equally heartfelt and clever songs on their first two albums. ...

Intense and infectious in equal measure, Icon for Hire brings the Paramore sound to the Tooth & Nail set with Scripted, the Decatur, Illinois group's debut album. Granted, this three-piece is much more than a Paramore clone with all their ...

Recording information: El Dorado Recording Studios, Burbank, CA; Phantom Studios, Westlake Village, CA; The Village, West Los Angeles, CA; Wildsky Studio, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Arrangers: Stuart Brawley; David Campbell. Personnel: Lenka (vocals, piano, keyboards, vibraphone, glockenspiel, percussion); Joe Corcoran (vocals, guitar, guitars, ...

In 2005, Alanis Morissette celebrated the 10th anniversary of her breakthrough album, JAGGED LITTLE PILL, in grand style by both rerecording that disc in an acoustic format, and issuing the decade-spanning COLLECTION. The latter 18-track release presents a number of ...

If a form of music exists, Malcolm McLaren has probably thought of a way to exploit it. From his early days managing first the New York Dolls, then the Sex Pistols, Adam And The Ants, and Bow Wow Wow, through ...

Track Listing: Help I'm Alive; Sick Muse; Satellite Mind; Twilight Galaxy; Gold Guns Girls; Gimme Sympathy; Collect Call; Front Row; Blindness; Stadium Love;

Still enamored of the concept of the concept album more than four years after AMERICAN IDIOT, Green Day unveiled its rock-opera sequel, 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN, in 2009. Like its predecessor, BREAKDOWN wholeheartedly embraces the iconic punk-pop act's shift to a ...

From the outset, as the slowly churning guitar riffs of "Godeatgod" pound their way into your ear, it's clear that Marilyn Manson plans to make few deviations from its previously established industrial rock ways on HOLY WOOD. This is an ...

Although Mike Patton found fame and fortune as the singer for Faith No More (with their 1989 breakthrough release THE REAL THING), he was first a member of Mr. Bungle. Instead of quitting his former band when he accepted FNM's ...

English folk outfit Mumford & Sons' full-length debut owes more than a cursory nod to bands like the Waterboys, the Pogues, and the Men They Couldn't Hang. The group's heady blend of biblical imagery, pastoral introspection, and raucous, pub-soaked heartache ...