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It is simple enough; a disc of straightforward, violent rock and roll. Wait- scratch that. Occasionally, Red Harvest put me in a contemplative lull, albeit, a morose one at that.The suggestive imagery that surrounds Bloodsimple and their sophomore album is one that would dictate progressive detachment away from ...

You could probably gather by the cheerfully obscene title of this compilation release by Eddie & The Subtitles that it was loud, proud, antisocial and basic. Eddie and The Subtitles were at the beginning of their checkered career a power trio consisting of Eddie Joseph, Matt Simon, ...

The band Flogging Molly has been collaborating since 1997 and has since produced four full length albums under the SideOneDummy record label along with a handful of live and compilation albums. While Flogging Molly started off as a too-hard-to-categorize band, in today’s mishmash of musical genres, they have definitely ...

I tried very hard to like The Armed Forces. This Nashville quartet wants to be The Clash, and don’t quite carry it off. They look like your little brother’s (or your son’s) punk ass, smart-mouthed friends who don’t hang out at the mall because they would be ...

Ouch! My ears hurt. But I like it! This band is nothing like what I normally listen to, but I love their music. First of all, I never knew there was metal music out there for crazy Christians. But if they can have rap music that says “Ho” and “God” ...

Degrees of Separation, the new album from Zero1Zero, starts off well enough, a paranoid techno-tinged guitar line in the intro of the first track grabbing the listener’s attention right away. But then it goes downhill, and fast, as turntable noises compete with the faux techno material, and annoyingly loudly mixed ...