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Album Review:
Burning Like The Midnight Sun
By The Choir
By Mike Gibson | June 26th, 2010
{June 29, 2010}
Galaxy21
Ahhhhh.
Like a circle slide twenty years long that invites you to once again chase a kangaroo, this is good stuff.
I age myself by recalling the purchase of a cassette by a new group called “Youth Choir.” Since that time in the mid-eighties, I have been an auditory observer to the evolution of one of my favorite bands in alternative music. And this one makes it a baker’s dozen. Twelve that is so good it could…
MORE »Album Review: Between Two Worlds
By Trip Lee
By Paul Gibson | June 20th, 2010
{Reach}
June 22, 2010
Trip Lee’s third full-length is going to once again solidify him as a star the way-to-small genre of good Christian Rap. I don’t say that to dog on others in the game who are trying to put out quality product, but Christian rap is a tough sell to most. It is hard to put a positive spin on most topics that are fodder for genre of rap in general, or at least without sounding annoyingly preachy or laughably cheesy.
Between Two Worlds covers hard topics with ease and finesse driving points home about lust, being real in your faith, and struggles of the streets.
Not only are the lyrics poignant, but Lee’s flows are change up more than enough to keep this disc spinning in your system for all 16 tracks and there are guests a-plenty to mix things up. He has a bit of…
MORE »Album Review:S/T EP By Rapture Ruckus
By Paul Gibson | June 20th, 2010
{Bec}
June 8, 2010
The new self-titled ep by Rapture Ruckus is unabashedly fun. The New Zealanders have tapped into a sound that walks the line between genius and cheesy with out falling off onto either side.
The album feels like a blend of mainstream hip-hop/pop acts like Kevin Rudolf and The Black Eyed Peas, but that, mixed with Hip-hop flows backed by a full band makes it more…
MORE »Album Review: Life, Scars, Apologies
By Since October
By Paul Gibson | June 10th, 2010
{Tooth And Nail}
June 8, 2010
Since October’s first release “This Is My Heart” had good songs but didn’t really lend itself to a listen straight through. Their new effort, Life, Scars, Apologies, is stronger, both in the songs on it and how they sound together.
The title track, The Way You Move, Believe, The Show (already used as the theme song for Wrestlemania), and Made Up My Mind have a cool commercial rock sound we are used to hearing from bands like Saliva, and Seether. While slower tunes like Sober Love, and Mend All The Pieces feel as though they might have been ripped from the slow jam play book of Disciple.
Don’t Follow, the album closer has a spectacular southern vibe, complete with harmonica and while it still has a slight smack of Disciple, it’s just too good for anyone to care.
The album doesn’t have a ton of moments that will make you…
MORE »Album Review: ReUnite
By The OC Supertones
By Kristy Heilman | May 20th, 2010
{BEC}
May 18, 2010
The O.C. Supertones and reunion in the same sentence? Yes, please! It is official: The O.C. Supertones are coming back together for a reunion tour (of sorts) in the summer of 2010.
This blessed reunion sparked the creation of a “Best Of” album released this month, just days ahead of their first show. BEC Recordings says ReUnite was created to “showcase this summer’s reunion set list.” And as for the list? Here it is:
MORE »Album Review: S/T By Write This Down
By Paul Gibson | May 9th, 2010
{April 20, 2009}
Tooth And Nail
The way I see it there are two distinct differences within good music. Music you know is well written and worthy of respect, either because of musicianship, writing or originality. Then there is infectious music, the kind you just can’t get out of your head.
Write This Down has done the later for me. Admittedly I review a good number of CD’s, some of those I give decent marks to and don’t listen to a lot after reviewing them. This isn’t going to be
MORE »Album Review: Our Graceful Words
By Sent By Ravens
By Paul Gibson | May 1st, 2010
{April 20, 2009}
Tooth And Nail
Okay, way too much good music has been hitting shelves lately, and this one isn’t an exception. Sent By Ravens, has created one of the year’s best debuts with Our Graceful Words.
The biggest notable comparison is to Emery. But these guys are a slightly less adventurous, but don’t worry, it isn’t a turn off. Sent By Ravens have much of the same singing screaming one-two punches like their label mates, but it’s laden with more pop-hooks and perhaps a bit more…
MORE »Album Review: Hanging On By A Thread
By The Letter Black
By Paul Anthony | April 22nd, 2010
It’s been a bit of a whirlwind for The Letter Black, which was plucked from indie-band obscurity, changed its name from Breaking the Silence, changed its sound from a husband-wife duet to solely female-fronted, and released an EP as a prelude to this spring’s full-length major-label debut.
Perhaps it was all this that kept “Breaking the Silence,” the six-song EP release in 2009, from fulfilling what felt like was its potential. An uneven album, it showed The Letter Black as a band that could go two directions…
Album Review: Young Giant
By Queens Club
By Paul Gibson | April 3rd, 2010
Tooth And Nail
{March 23, 2010}
Fans who know of Queens Club because of their connection to chaotic metal band The Chariot should leave behind any preconceived notions about their sound, good or bad. Queens Club does feature 2 former members of The Chariot, Jake Ryan, drums, and Dan Eaton, guitar/vocals, but the two bands couldn’t be more different.
QC takes it’s musical queues from bands like Bloc Party, Franz Fernandez and The Killers, but without sounding unoriginal. Overall the end result sounds like…
MORE »Album Review: The Chase By Manafest
By Paul Gibson | April 1st, 2010
BEC
{March 29, 2010}
Manafest has more talent as a hip-hop artist than most would think. Let’s face it, he doesn’t fit the normal hip-hop mold. He’s never been shot, he doesn’t do drugs, rhyme about strip clubs, or carry a gun. But despite all of that, and being a white, skateboarding Canadian (also not the norm in commercial hip-hop), he deserves every bit of street cred as 50 or Em. But with his new album, The Chase, a rock album, one has to wonder if it will fit, Lil Wayne’s attempt at a rock album wasn’t exactly met with an abundance of praise.
But never fear, The Chase, is quite possibly…
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