How about a few dead leaves to go with those April showers? Indeed, one of the Bay Area's finest Punk bands arrives about six months out of season for their "sorrowful" new release, which in spite of its dark wanderings, is as much a breeding ground for rejoice and renewal....

Dido, Fiona Apple and Diana Krall are three phenomenal artists. But what if I told you that you get all three wrapped up in one? Well, you can. Her name is Amy Fabry and she is a sensational singer, songwriter and musician. Her album, Cultivated Pearl is a groundbreaking project...

It's lucky the first song's got a catchy enough chorus cause by about the sixteenth time around I'd be getting plenty bored with it. It's called "People Fall Down" and it's a yammering, stammering, drunken stupor of an opening track that does nothing to suggest edge of your seat excitement,...

The talented post-Punk rockers rise up above the underground to do their first live album - in Brazil (one of two guaranteed successes along with Japan) - and featuring 2/3rd's of the band's originals, including Napolitano and Mankey, bass, vox, and guitars. The addition of drummer Gabriel Ramirez-Quezada adds a...

And Electric Frankenstein takes a bride… Then again she don't look like she's ripe for anyone's taking, forget her green skin shade, it's just the first thing that popped into my head in viewing our vindictive cover page vixen with the taste for weaponry. "Lost Souls Day," took me about...

The band somehow passed me by the first time which was at a time when the Stoner Rock thing was sowing the seeds fast and furious and making even the discerning listener a bit of an eye roller. But the clever idea of a catchy name like "Drunk Horse," combined...

Dutch Death Metallers God Dethroned return with their sixth and most socially critical record to date. Aside from their usual eight song standard, another ten tracks accompany the new crop, including a smashing reworking of their originally released 1992 name sake, and Possessed's "Satan's Curse." Both blow open the flood...

With all the buzz about AMERICAN IDOL Season Two, and the singles from almost tied two finalists Clay Aiken and winner Ruben Studdard being released on 06/10/03, last year's ORIGINAL AMERICAN IDOL, Kelly Clarkson, released her Debut Album, "Thankful" with probably less notice than it would have received at another...

Oakland based alt-metal quartet Machine Head broke ground in the early 1990s, along with musical riffmates Pantera, Biohazard & Testament, and paved the way for later incarnations of metal, all the way from math rock to nu-metal and rap-rock.  Hellalive, recorded live at London's Brixton Academy during the band's 2001...

Would it be too much of a stretch to hail the return of Sisters Of Mercy during the opening playback… just a thought. Actually I didn't quite know what to expect of the latest PL record. It's been a few years since "One Second" made any sort of impact for...