What’s the deal with punk bands putting out arena rock, Springsteen-esque albums these days? Much like Gaslight Anthem and Against Me, AM Taxi is a band that has released an American rock album that sounds like they wrote it to be played in a stadium. Regardless, it is a strong…

Britain’s immensely acclaimed, Grammy nominated Keane continue their metaphoric mission with each release, and nowhere is it more evident than on their latest Night Train. The tour diary consists of eight tracks that were recorded on the road during their Perfect Symmetry trek over 28 countries.

The EP boldly mimics…

Agonizingly slow, ambient, funeral style experimental doom, with wailing vocals. I mean that in a very, very good way.

A Small Turn of Human Kindness is almost laughably heavy at times with distorted chords sustained over measures upon measures of crawling, grim doom. Metal of this kind that is lyrically…

After contemplating retirement for a number of years now, there is a possibility that with their seventeenth studio album the Scorpions may finally do just that (they’ve announced it, if that means anything). And if retirement is in the near future for the band, though they will always be remembered…

Good Old War seems to master the art of adorable folk music with their three-part harmonies and amorous tracks. On their new album they attempt to break away from this reputation, but it’s obvious they can’t escape it.

The self-titled album’s first track is a foretelling of what listeners should…

Acting as a visual document of Clutch’s most recent holiday East Coast run, Maryland’s finest purveyors of bluesy American rock took 2009 as an opportunity to perform their 1995 self-titled album in its entirety, something that I take some responsibility for (see page two of October…

The Night’s Last Tomorrow is the third CD released by the frontman for Cemetery-and-Western band, Ninth House, and it is rich with both new material and mature, acoustic reinterpretations of songs, often featuring brave and innovative instrumentation to accompany Mark’s chocolaty vocals. Some have appeared on Sinnis’ two prior solo…

This spastic array of fusion and rock from former King Crimson bassist Trey Gunn is more a record of a man exploring his own musical limits than an album in any traditional sense of the word. Of course, when someone composes over a 51-minute drum solo by one of the…

Sometimes to uplift your mood, an upbeat album is all you need. Houston mellow rockers Alpha Rev have succeeded in creating just that with New Morning. The band’s second album covers the subject of breaking up and moving on in a lot of their songs, but doing it in a…

Here Lies Love, a beautiful package containing two CDs, a DVD and a 120-page hardcover book, sub-titled “A Song Cycle About Imelda Marcos & Estrella Cumpas,” is the true and fascinating story about the life of Marcos (the widow of the corrupt Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos) and her childhood friend/caretaker.…