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The Distillers - Coral Fang
Watch Out - She BitesThe Distillers’ major-label debut comes with a lot of pop and speed despite a summer of friction for lead singer Brody Dalle. Coral Fang, their third full-length, is cleaner and not as heavy as their previous...
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Junior Senior - D-D-Don’t Don’t Stop the Beat
File Under: Uhhh… Everything?In the future, music industry conglomerates will band together to artificially engineer the definitive "perfect" band. In an almost Frankenstein-ian manner, scientists will combine the genetic material of musical...
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DMX - Grand Champ
This Dog Is Still the ChampDMX is back with his newest release, Grand Champ, which hits harder and quicker than his 2001 mediocre album, The Great. It’s good to see DMX back where he belongs - behind a mic, making club-bumping...
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Top 5 Driving Albums
I've been traveling up and down the East Coast a great deal lately, often with my only companion being the car stereo. Sitting for hours behind the wheel, passing though industrial parks and strip malls, over hills and through the woods, all the...
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Top 5 Driving Albums Page 2
3. Pink Floyd - Animals: Like Neurosis, I think just about any of Pink Floyd's albums are well suited for traveling. Each of their albums is so carefully arranged and produced that moving from first song to last is a rewarding and enlightening...
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Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
A Breath of Fresh AirAhhh…a breath of fresh air! A breeze heavy with strings, brass, noisy guitars, clear falsetto, sexy accents, and poetic lyrics about love, being bullied, and road trips. After endless conjured-up refuse, Dear...
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Desert Sessions - Desert Sessions Vol. 9/10
Operation Desert SessionsEven the hardest of rockers need to take a rock'n'roll vacation once in a while. Since 1997, Josh Homme has been taking regular retreats from Queens of the Stone Age to his Rancho De La Luna studio in Joshua Tree,...
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Brand New - Deja Entendu
This Sure As Hell A'int Deja Vu“I hope this song starts a craze--the kind of song that ignites the airwaves. The kind of song that makes people glad to be where they are, with whoever they’re there with.”...
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