A tone-deaf version of The Calling meets a less talented Matchbox 20. This is what comes to mind when I listen to 34 Satellite's album "Stop". This album was incredibly bland and boring. It lacked feeling and well, to put it bluntly, talent. The music itself was rather good until...

The first thing that jumps out at ya - and it's cliché but it's Punk Rock without the piss and vinegar so take it for what it's worth, a mischievous grin or sour puss, your call, but ain't nobody gonna be misled to thinking these guys are the razor and...

There's a school of thought that proposes that Jim Morrison didn't die of a heart attack in a bathtub, but instead staged his own death to see what the reaction would be. This rumor was a lot more prevalent in the early 1970s than it is now. There was, in...

I never really got Badly Drawn Boy, mostly, I think, because of the context of my heretofore limited exposure of him. Last year I would catch a glimpse of a video from the ABOUT A BOY CD in the (very) early morning hours while waiting for the coffee to percolate,...

Playing in the theory of musical calculations, Beth Hopkins (d.m.a.) Bif Naked is the arithmetic equation of the three laws of musical motion: singing, writing and musicianship. A gun-singer with rhythmic hip action and voice activated perfect aim; PURGE is the vocal abreaction of a dissident alternative angel singing within a...

"Symptom Of The Universe…" or to put it another way, "The Ozzy Years." And hey, who'd blame 'em to want to capitalize on the Ozzman's "Second Cometh" from stage to small screen as reality TV's animated joke gone monstrously awry. But veteran Rock bands and newcomers bear witness to something...

There has been a bit of news recently in the music press about Bryan Adams, the alt-country Wunderkind, throwing a bit of a snit when in the middle of his concert someone yells out a request for a Bryan Adams' song. Ryan will be in-between numbers and some wit will...

I'll first go on record as saying I agree wholeheartedly with the final statement of the press release-"classic Cathedral moments… perhaps the most well-rounded album of their careers." Okay, that sounds like me-dance around the definite, skirt slightly to the side, and throw around the "perhaps" or "potentially" and all...

Out of the Trilogy, “System One . . .” is the one most like a regular hard rock album. All of the songs except a couple bonus tracks were written and performed by Criss Angel’s band when they were playing out around New York City. The first track, “Come Alive,”...

Moving on to number 3 in the Trilogy, this album is VERY percussion and electronica driven. No matter how the sound was achieved, it’s total trance electronica mixed with hip hop that once again is more of a stand alone album. You can tell it’s the background music for a...