Mississippi natives 3 Doors Down are a band who emerged in 2000 with the chart topping single, "Kryptonite" and went on to sell more then six million copies of their debut album, The Better Life. The foursome returns this year with their sophomore effort, “Away From The Sun.” Produced by...

I really wanted to like KING KONG SERENADE more than I did. Allen Shadow is a pseudonym of Allen Kovler, a poet and performance artist who left New York City in the 1980s and sought fame and fortune in Nashville as a songwriter.  Tiring of playing the songwriting plugging game...

Quality is very important when trying to make good music. Everything has to be it's absolute best to impress listeners and really make them want to go out and buy an album. I know this and you know this but I think that someone forgot to inform American Popular. The...

When Awol One says "you call her J-Lo, I call her Fur-Pants", in that I-just-woke-up voice you wonder if he might know something Affleck doesn"t. Over the spirited and distinctively indirect production of Daddy Kev "Slanguage" tick-tocks comfortably like an afternoon spent with the local jazz enthusiast in his den....

"Phoenix" commences with a coarse, almost emo-core disposition (Worst Part), and shifts into stringent, militaristic riffing by track three (Closer). The mantra-like ending of Closer recalls Garrison, and the mini album ends with phrasing that makes you think of Cave In on their own Tides of Tomorrow EP.  Some of...

After listening to Brooke Ramel's most recent album, Be, and absolutely loving it. I was excited and curious when I found that I was going to be reviewing the album that preceded it. It's also a great experience to see an artist grow and learn with each album to see...

The title doesn't quite fit the intensity within. Sure, they're said to have "cleaned" it up a little since the early EP's but that says nothing about the show of instrumental force taking place here - nothing short of an off the dial outburst of propulsive percussion, pit riffs and...

The blockbuster action flick for February gets a twenty-song soundtrack of equal value featuring a bevy of today's biggest Rock artists serving up the perfect compliment to a little crime fighting drama. With the exception of Evanescence, a female fronted electronimation newbie that's getting an extra ounce of pressure from...

Latin rap is steadily on the rise and every year, it seems to get better and stronger. Delinquent Habits is a latino rap band from California looking to make their mark and impress the world. And if they keep putting out albums like this one, they're sure to hit their...

ULTRAVIOLET is a remix project by Nicolas Matar. Those who thought that Disco, dance, or whatever you want to call it would be a dead genre will be surprised to note that Matar is a second generation mixer; his father was an original member of Studio 54 (now, alas, used...