While there seems to be some sort of stigma regarding different types of “educational†television content, I have a feeling that the presentation of Frontline’s Poisoned Waters will be enough to keep viewers on the edge of their seats throughout the entirety of the show’s runtime. The release details how exactly the work that was done in the years immediately preceding and following the Clean Water Act have not really…
12 song CD,2000. 35:45, practically 3 minutes a song. They are a 4 piece band from some East European nation that play some extremely catchy clear punk music in the vein of the first wave of punk bands to wash upon the U.K’s shores. The album is surprisingly clear with clean vocals and guitar. In “Saturday Night†the guitarist pulls off an amazing solo aside from his great axe work…
I have never been a big fan of watching golf, but the games that have been released in the Tiger Woods PGA line have been something special. The amount of specificity that is present in this title, and especially the latest title, are far beyond compare both in regards to golf and general sports titles. Where a number of the different sports titles only make minor changes in-between the different…
The Clock Work Army is an interesting band. The band is able to create a distinct style that is still very salient and catchy for the current era. The band is able to throw in a dance-punk backing beat (mainly drums) with a strong female voice and alternative-infused, swirling guitar eddies. There are only five tracks on “A Catalyst For Change†but the band confidently crafts their own sound here.…
The shouted-out vocals that start out “2,4,6,8†bode well for Clit 45. The style of punk music that hits listeners’ ears are quick and streetpunk influenced, with guitars that are influenced by the Bad Religion school of music. There are few times that individuals can breathe on this disc, and this is not because Clit 45 is obnoxious, but rather that the band kicks it into high gear whenever they…
This is a brand of post-hardcore emo that comes through with a tremendous amount of energy. Mixing together A Static Lullaby with a number of acts like Between The Buried and Me, “Goodnight†comes through with churning guitars and a number of catchy vocals. Everything is ultimately transferable to mass radio, but the band is still able to put a growling, heavy sound into many of their tracks.†While a…
The style of music that The Class of 98 is not stuck in the brand “emo†category that seems to fit a wide array of bands well, but rather the music on tracks like “Everywhere You Go†are transcendent of little-meaning genre tags. Rather, the sedate fuzz of The Class of 98 is rock without all of the posturing and bull that has really demarcated emo from rock in the…
Starting off “Pleasure†with a guitar-led beginning that would be proper in the soundtrack for any action hero movie, Classic Case frequently inflame the senses of their listener with tremendous amounts of different sounds. The disc begins with “Modus Operandiâ€, a hard-hitting track driven by the twin assault of drums and guitar, topped off by the late-nineties alternative sound of Jared’s vocals. The follow-up track, “Down And Outâ€, restraining the…
And you thought the drugs were a problem? The success the guys in Aerosmith had in the late 70’s and again in the early/mid 90’s is matched only by their mythic reputation for hovering up mountains of blow in the 70’s and 80’s. In Hit Hard: A Story of Hitting Rock Bottom at the Top, Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer touches a little on his troubles with drugs, but spends the…
There seems to be more of a mixture of current rock with the emo sound that is prevalent; what results is a band that does not alienate a high amount of their listeners right from the start of the disc. Tracks like “Hospitalized†are high-energy romps that take some of the shrill guitar work of bands like Converge and insert them with the looking-back, hair-bandish solos of bands like Brand…
