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Our Brand Could Be Yr Life (Chrysalis Records). Review by Steven Cruse.
Our Brand Could Be Yr Life (Chrysalis Records). Review by Steven Cruse.
No need to worry about offending delicate sensibilities with this playlist. We’re not talking about profanity, so just take the title at face value.
With You Tonight (DTF/Membran). Review by Jen Cray.
Le Butcherettes unleash their inner she-beast at an Orlando show that not only wowed Jen Cray , but won over a venue full of macho Deftones fans.
Funk It Up & Punk It Up: Live In France ‘95 (Suicidal Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
MC Rut. Review by Jen Cray.
Million Lifetimes (Girlfight). Review by Jen Cray.
Perry Farrell’s Satellite Party may not have brought in the crowds his previous bands would have guaranteed, but the old material mixed with Farrell’s Iggy Pop-like energy was enough to satisfy the fans that did make it down to the House of Blues Orlando, Jen Cray was amontst them.
Ultra Payloaded (Columbia). Review by Jen Cray.
Diagrams Without Instructions (Hi Fi Alliance). Review by Jen Cray.
When At The Drive In split up, half of the band went on to critical success in The Mars Volta. The other half quietly slipped into a band just as worthy of praise, Sparta. Jen Cray stepped in to pay the band some respect.
Endorsed by Carruthers Guitars and assisted by Jane’s Addiction’s drummer, L.A. rocker Katya brings back the Rock Goddess. Kyrby Raine finds out it’s not necessarily a boy’s club in the music biz these days.
Henry Rollins went from taking over vocals for Black Flag when he was just a 20 year-old fan to becoming a renaissance man with his hands in everything from music to literature to acting to humanitarian work. Jen Cray catches the workaholic in the act.
Shaun Kama has set aside his aggressive punk rock side and picked up an acoustic guitar to allow his songwriting soul to be the focus of his new project with The Kings of the Wild Frontier. Jen Cray phones him up for a chat.
Interview With Christiane J., Lead Vocalist and Band Spokesperson for S.T.U.N.
What a day for Phillip Haire… Jane’s Addiction, Audioslave, Incubus, Queens of the Stone Age, Jurassic 5, The Donnas, The Distillers and others…
The Technology: (Beatville). Review by Matt Cibula.
EPrime (Interscope). Review by Vanessa Bormann.
Our Lady Peace singer Raine Maida talks about the band’s most recent CD, Spiritual Machines, and lists and discusses his ten favorite songs with Gail Worley.
Song Yet to Be Sung (Virgin). Review by Vanessa Bormann.
With his latest book, What This Comedian Said Will Shock You, celebrated stand-up Jedi Bill Maher “shocks” readers by doing the most outrageous, unthinkable, and socially unacceptable thing imaginable: he speaks rationally, logically, and objectively.
Gasoline Lollipops’ newest single, “Freedom Don’t Come Easy,” is today’s mother lovin’ punk rock folk anthem.
Frank Henenlotter’s gory grindhouse classic Basket Case looks as grimy as the streets of Times Square, and that is one of the film’s greatest assets. Arrow Video gives this unlikely candidate a welcome fresh release.
Despite the Mother’s Day factor, hundreds of fervent, faithful followers still flocked to Orlando’s famed Plaza Live to catch an earlybird set from Jimmy Failla — one of the hottest names on today’s national comedy scene.
Ink 19 readers get an early listen and look at “Cool Sparkling Water,” a new single from Lonnie Walker.
Jeremy Glazier has a bucket list day at a Los Lobos 50th Anniversary show in Davenport, Iowa.
Carl F. Gauze reviews the not-quite one-woman show, Always… Patsy Cline, based on the true story of Cline’s friendship with Louise Seger, who met the star in l961 and corresponded with Cline until her death.
Carl F. Gauze reviews this interesting look at the surprising history and scandalous etymology of jazz, in Weird Music That Goes On Forever, by Bob Suren.