With intense guitars and a strong sound, Arise and Ruin begins their album Night Storms Hailfire on a better note then the album ends. With a fast beat the track, Forever Damned (track one) has a fast moving pace and a dark and painful sound. Yet prepare yourself for just...

I can hear where Blake Lewis will do well in the music industry: he has a fantastic voice and the musical makings for a really decent post-American Idol career (especially considering this is is sophomore album and from what I can tell, he already has a decent following).  I find...

Let me tell you up front that I am hardly a musical expert. When THE DOOMSDAY EP landed in my mail stack I thought that Elvis Perkins was the name of a psycho Billy band who had created the moniker by combining the names of Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins....

Still strutting their stuff, Every Time I Die’s newest album, New Junk Aesthetic, can simply be described as heavy, fast and eccentric.These Boston boys got together in 1988 and debuted their LP Gutter Phenomenon in 2005, which they used to establish themselves as the new sound in both country and...

Everything old is new again. Metal music in all its configurations has been declared dead more often than WWE’s Undertaker, and comes back just as often. Actually, it never goes away. The faithful go underground, regroup, and come back. Sometimes they’re led by power ballad minstrels such as Staind or...

Girls, uh, aren’t. Girls are actually sugar and spice and…I mean, they are collectively Christopher Owens and J. R. White. As has often been the case with popular music, the story behind their project, ALBUM, is almost as interesting as the project itself. Owens was born into the Children of...

Hawk Nelson’s Live Life Loud makes me think of what it would sound like if A Change of Pace, Yellowcard, and Sum 41 had a baby. A really awesome baby.  Which is a lot of parents, but no artist has one influence and Hawk Nelson is no different.  What does...

“I crushed Elvis in his blue suede shoesMade The Rolling Stones seem sweet as Kool Aid too” -ReminderFor any other rapper those lines would be nothing more than an allusion to some braggadocio fantasy they could only live through their rhymes.  Actually, that would be the case for any other...

Philadelphian Kurt Vile is the lead singer and guitarist for the band War On Drugs, but is equally as well known (if not more so) for his solo projects, of which CHILDISH PRODIGY is the second. Listening to Vile is an interesting experience, given his penchant for lo-fi, in-the-bedroom recording;...

There will be all sorts of arguments about what is the greatest rock song of all time, and if “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd isn’t at least mentioned in each of them then the folks who are jawing have no idea what they are talking about. The opening guitar...