Review: Dynasty – Black Box

Review: Dynasty – Black Box
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Dynasty Black Box Mysterious Media I’m not really overwhelmed by the majority of electroclash; Dynasty, however, are rather enjoyable in that they take all the hand claps and mix it with a certain sleazy sound that has the same texture as a Soft Cell album. They distort things up a bit, don’t rely completely on

Review: Starflyer 59 – Talking Voice VS. Singing Voice

Review: Starflyer 59 – Talking Voice VS. Singing Voice
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Starflyer 59 Talking Voice VS. Singing Voice Tooth & Nail I’ve listened to this album for a couple months trying to sort out how I feel about it. I’ve come up with this: Starflyer 59 make sugar-coma pop music. It’s epic in a small box theater, but not exactly made for big booming stadiums. It

Review: Kasabian – Self-Titled

Review: Kasabian – Self-Titled
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Kasabian Self-Titled RCA Kasabian have been a guilty pleasure of mine since hearing the opening of “Club Foot.” Granted, they aren’t completely original. You can pinpoint various points in Manchester’s history of music that pop up in abundance throughout the album, fitting in somewhere post-Happy Mondays and the Charlatan’s happier days with a dash of

Review: Peter Murphy – Unshattered

Review: Peter Murphy – Unshattered
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Peter Murphy Unshattered  Viastar Odd how a Peter Murphy album can be released and some six months later, they’re finally sending it out to the press. I’ve had the album for quite some time now and even though my opinion of it has improved over time, Unshattered is a little hard to swallow. Still fresh

Review: Cyness – Loony Planet/Industreality CD

Review: Cyness – Loony Planet/Industreality CD
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Cyness Loony Planet/Industreality CD Sound Pollution   I haven’t been into grindcore since the glory days of Napalm Death, Brutal Truth and Assuck. I guess I got sick of the constant barrage of noise in my old age and started listening to much catchier music in the way of 80s hardcore punk. Now that 80s-style

Review: Massgrav – Napalm Ofver Stureplan CD

Review: Massgrav – Napalm Ofver Stureplan CD
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Now here’s a record that’s right up my fuckin’ alley. These fat Swedish drunks wear their influences proudly on their sleeves. … read more

Review: Misery – Production Thru Destruction

Review: Misery – Production Thru Destruction
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Metal heads know when not to play a useless solo, when not to play five minutes of blastbeats, and when not to use eight million riffs in one song. … read more

Review: The Upwelling – Self-Titled

Review: The Upwelling – Self-Titled
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The songs on this 5 track EP are nice, they sore, they have a little rock in them and they have a mood that sometimes crosses Catherine Wheel with Elbow or Coldplay, but there just isn’t the payoff. … read more

Review: The Perishers – Let There Be Morning

Review: The Perishers – Let There Be Morning
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I’d actually love to see them dominate top 40 radio—it would be a vast improvement. It just wouldn’t be nearly as seductive as A Rush of Blood or O.K. Computer. … read more

Review: Thee Heavenly Music Association – Shaping the Invisible

Review: Thee Heavenly Music Association – Shaping the Invisible
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It is beautiful, moving but without the sonic bite of the original and as a result the emotional release never comes and you’re left with something twisting inside that wants to break out. … read more