Another Animal contains an interconnected group of musicians from Godsmack and Ugly Kid Joe that have merged their musical formula with aggressive and classic songwriting to create their debut self-titled record Another Animal. The band will launch a U.S. tour on October 2nd in Tallahassee, FL with Alter Bridge. You can preview Another Animal’s first single “Broken Again” on the band’s Myspace page – http://www.myspace.com/anotheranimalxxx.
Queen – Under Review: 1980-1991 / 2006 MVD / 90 Minutes / http://www.mvdb2b.com / Queen is a great act, but I thought they really fell off during the 1980s. I guess I was wrong; just because none of the radio stations play anything that Queen created after 1980 does not mean that they became weaker in any way. Being only a casual fan of Queen, I had no clue that…
Sept. 28 – Los Angeles, CA Dimmak Party Sept. 29 – Los Angeles, CA Neighborhood Festival Sept. 30 – Los Angeles, CA LAX DJ Set Oct. 2 – Calgary, AB Hi Fi Club Oct. 4 – Vancouver, BC The Plaza Club Oct. 5 – San Francisco Rickshaw Stop Oct. 6 – Chicago, IL Vic Theater w.KLAXONS Oct. 8 – Washington, DC 9:30 Club w.KLAXONS Oct. 9 – Philadelphia, PA The…
Johnny Cash – The Great Lost Performance / 2007 Island / 18 Tracks / http://www.johnnycash.com / http://www.islandrecords.com / This CD makes a Johnny Cash that was a good fifteen years before the one that was captured during the last “American†CD. This means that the voice seems stronger, and that there is more of an energy with each of these eighteen cuts that blends well the younger and older Cash.…
Equal Vision recording artists CHIODOS rightfully take their seat in industry bible Billboard Magazine’s Top 200 Chart at the astonishing Number Five spot! Selling close to 40,000 albums in their first week in sales, their second album Bone Palace Ballet has been getting major bouts of applause, including the cover of this month’s Alternative Press, who calls the album “a frighteningly mighty album of exhilarating musicianship and inspired lyrical introspection.”…
Poison – Seven Days Live / 2006 MVD / 82 Minutes / http://www.poisonweb.com / http://www.mvdb2b.com / One really has to debate whether, as posed on their press sheet, that Poison was “at the height of their international success†in 1993, when this show was filmed. The one thing that individuals cannot debate is that Poison brings it, and brings it hard with this. Coming out after “Flesh & Bloodâ€, this…
Son Volt – The Search / 2007 Transmit Sound / 14 Tracks / http://www.sonvolt.net / I came to the music scene a little too late to hear Uncle Tupelo, but Son Volt is an act that continues some of the same styles and musical approaches that Uncle Tupelo once created. This is probably due to the fact that Jay Ferrar, the guitar / harmonica / vocalist of Son Volt, was…
Drowning Pool have been working hard to not only release their new album Full Circle, but also to have been working to draw attention to obtain medical treatment for the troops returning from battle. Recently the guys took time out of their busy schedule on the road to talk with their guitar sponsor, Gibson. Check out the full interview and download the first single off Full Circle, “Soldiers.â€
The Trolleyvox’s new release on the Philadelphia-based Transit of Venus label is a two album set that is comprised of Your Secret Safe , a full-band electric album produced by Brian McTear (Danielson, Espers, Mazarin, A-Sides, Lilly’s, Apollo Sunshine) featuring nine new originals and a ripping version of The Who’s “Our Love Was”; and Luzerne, a gorgeous acoustic album featuring songwriter-guitar player Andrew Chalfen and lead singer Beth Filla. The…
Philly ZineFest Documentary 2004 / 2005 Outhouse publishing / http://www.njghost.com / This is really a documentary, replete with interviews with a number of the attendants at the title event (The 2004 edition of the Philly ZineFest. However, some of the pieces are definitely weaker than the others. Starting off with BenT (Unshaven Chi), one really might wonder why such a stilted and silence-filled interview was allowed to have the opening…
