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"Era Vulgaris" by Queens of the Stone Age

Ever since Josh Homme kicked Nick Oliveri out of Queens of the Stone Age, it feels like it's taken Homme forever to find his own way. Queens' last album, Lullabies to Paralyze, felt terribly uneven and just never found its footing. Former Failure and A Perfect Circle bassist Troy Van Leeuwen and for... [More]

[Sun Jul 1st, 2007] Written By: Kyle England

"Memory Almost Full" by Paul McCartney

Two years after Paul McCartney created his greatest late period career album Chaos and the Creation in the Backyard, the former Beatle has thrown a major curveball to the music industry. Longtime label home Capitol records has been shown the door (maybe Heather Mills can console them) and now hot ne... [More]

[Sun Jul 1st, 2007] Written By: Kyle England

"City of Echoes " by Pelican

After the massive critical success of 2005's sophomore effort The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw, Instrumental-Hard Rock/Metal band Pelican finally return with their heavily anticipated follow-up City of Echoes. Echoes finds the band picking up right where they left off riffing with de... [More]

[Sun Jul 1st, 2007] Written By: Kyle England

"Excellent Italian Greyhound " by Shellac

Even though it's been seven years since Shellac's last release, it really shouldn't surprise anyone who are familiar with the band that it took this long for the Chicago trio to finally record a proper follow-up to 2000's 1000 Hurts. Vocalist/guitarist Steve Albini has been more widely known as a su... [More]

[Sun Jul 1st, 2007] Written By: Kyle England

"Sky Blue Sky" by Wilco

For my money, I still find Wilco's 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot to be the seminal release of this decade, just a smidge over Radiohead's Kid A. The way they melded experimental noise with their established Alt-Country/Pop-Rock sound just astounded me and I'm still astonished by it every single ti... [More]

[Fri Jun 1st, 2007] Written By: Kyle England

"Volta" by Bjork

After releasing two completely introverted works (2001's serene Vespertine and 2004's sorely overlooked masterpiece Medulla) Iceland's most popular export returns with Volta, an album promised from Bjork herself to be more outgoing and embraceable. Though Volta does a have accessible moments, I... [More]

[Fri Jun 1st, 2007] Written By: Kyle England

"Plague Park " by Handsome Furs

Even though Wolf Parade's 2005 debut Apologies to the Queen Mary was lauded as an Indie-Rock masterpiece and was voted as one of the best albums of that year by countless critics, I couldn't help but find it a tad overrated. Yes it was good but c'mon, that good? How surprising for me personally then... [More]

[Fri Jun 1st, 2007] Written By: Kyle England

"God Save The Clientele" by The Clientele

There's a fine line between sappiness and sheer brilliance in the Adult-Contemporary Pop genre and if anyone ever needed a template on how to achieve the latter in this category they should look no further than The Clientele's new record God Save The Clientele. This UK four-piece have been honing th... [More]

[Wed May 30th, 2007] Written By: Kyle England

"The Boy With No Name" by Travis

After the massive bomb that was their boringly dreadful 2003 album 12 Memories (or as The Boneman once referred to it, a Travis-D) Fran Healy and company took their first extended hiatus ever as a band. 2007 marks a decade now since the band's inception and to celebrate Travis have released The Boy... [More]

[Wed May 30th, 2007] Written By: Kyle England

"Our Earthly Pleasures" by Maximo Park

Maximo Park were just one of the countless Post-Punk bands such as Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads and Kaiser Chiefs that all came out of the UK a few years back. Since then, all but Maximo Park have made follow-up records. Some were good (bravo Futureheads) some were decent (try to giv... [More]

[Wed May 30th, 2007] Written By: Kyle England

"Release The Stars" by Rufus Wainwright

I remember listening to Poses (Rufus' true coming out party – musically speaking). I was sitting chasing down some painfully insignificant piece of minutea while working on my taxes, when I realized I was having a great time. A marvelous time. You see I'd just discovered Rufus and anyone that can tu... [More]

[Tue May 22nd, 2007] Written By: The Boneman

"Favourite Worst Nightmare" by Arctic Monkeys

If you happen to remember my review of Arctic Monkeys debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not last year, you may recall that I wasn't very nice to them. Not that I hated it, I actually thought it was decent enough and that they showed promise for the future, but good God the Britis... [More]

[Mon May 7th, 2007] Written By: Kyle England

"Dumb Luck" by Dntal

Dntel, for those who don't know, is just one man and that man is Jimmy Tamborello. Tamborello, for those who don't know, is the man that was responsible for putting the beats together for The Postal Service's excellent 2003 album Give Up that also featured Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Rilo... [More]

[Sun May 6th, 2007] Written By: Kyle England

"Grinderman" by Grinderman

At age 49, Nick Cave is undergoing quite the artistic renaissance. If any of you out there saw the western that he penned called The Proposition starring Guy Pierce and Ray Winstone hopefully you saw what I did: a movie that was completely raw and invigorating, which gave westerns a real shot in the... [More]

[Sun May 6th, 2007] Written By: Kyle England

"23" by Blonde Redhead

When listening to Blonde Redhead's newest album 23, you'd swear that this couldn't possibly be the same band with all the original members still intact, even though this three-piece hasn't wavered with lineup changes once since 1995. This band that started out in the mid 90's drawing endless compari... [More]

[Wed May 2nd, 2007] Written By: Kyle England

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