Album Reviews

To commemorate their 30th anniversary venerable north of the border prog-rockers Rush have put out a new EP consisting entirely of cover songs.

Perhaps no other band signifies the word melting pot than Los Angeles

i]The Giant Pin provides many different territories to explore and examine

If you

Yes, there is always room for one more Dylan cover.

The ten tracks on Phil Ranelin’s Inspiration serves as ideal jazz for almost any occasion, outfitting the

Frontman Dustan Louque grew up in Louisiana listening to everything from Fats Domino to Ice T to Depeche Mode, and has spent the last few years living in the hipster mecca of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

For those of you who remember and appreciate the dawn of industrial rock, this album is a must have. As they always have, Ministry slams you with their blistering guitar licks, computer-assisted beats and Nihilistic imagery.

Despite sounding like a home-studio effort (which it is: the liner notes say,

Scissor Sisters score low points for originality, as every beat, bass line and harmony was snatched from the Boogie Nights soundtrack. But they score with their sense of humor, outlandish style and unabashed guts to combine glam, rock, disco and funk back to the radio waves.

The session is bursting with the late night flavor of a New Orleans Funk Summit showdown, even though most of the album was recorded in San Francisco.

Thirty minutes packed with elastic grooves and open ended spaces, tightly filled with the fiery driven keyboard work of Gwen Grimes played to precision.

Long before late 90

The funk runs deep on the Motet

To many devoted fans of Widespread Panic, their first unplugged album to date,

Somewhere between The Flaming Lips, a P.T. Anderson film, and a roadside evangelist with acid drenched Kool-Aid, lies The Polyphonic Spree. It

Ambulance LTD molds a bit of the Velvet Underground

Thankfully, without Moby and too many buttons, LP kicks out all the rock and roll that No Doubt wishes they did. Then again, LP would likely agree that it wouldn

A wide-open, sun-baked land flows from my speakers. It

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