Franz Ferdinand’s Tonight is the Scottish rockers’ third release since their inception in 2002. Released in January of this year, the album is at best hit-and-miss. I have to admit that musically, it’s worse than I expected. While at times there are some solid jams on display and somewhat creative rhythms at work…
Judas Priest’s new live CD, A Touch of Evil:Live, is a nice little payoff for diehard fans. The 11 tracks that make up the release are all songs that have not been previously recorded live, and this is saying something considering that the band has something like 30 live albums in their career…
Fucking Awesome. Those two simple words are the perfect description for Wrath, the new release from Lamb of God. Wrath is a return to form that allows the Richmond, Virginia, quintet to reclaim its crown as the new kings of metal…
So, once you’ve hit the big time playing in your high school band, become ridiculously popular, been featured on the covers of magazines from here to Kingdom Come, have two hit records under your belt, and been showered with equal doses of adoration and criticism…
The most remarkable thing about Fiona Apple’s latest, verbosely-titled album isn’t the speed at which she engendered such a remarkable maturity (after all, Joni Mitchell blossomed from pretty good folkie to peerless soul-drenching singer-songwriter in the course of three years…
