Music Emissions

  Most bands that try for an epic feel usually shoot themselves in the foot by imaging that to be epic means to self-consciously try and be grander than they are capable. That usually ends in pretention, and limp pomposity....

It's late at night and I'm reminiscing with some old classics that I used to listen to in years long gone. I'll admit that I wasn't an original Generation X fan. My love for them came after I fell in love with Billy Idol's Rebel Yell...

The Locals are a band out of Chicago, Illinois that have a nice crossover of The Pretenders and No Doubt, minus the ska. Yes, they are female fronted and a very powerful woman at that...

  "Razor To Oblivion" checks in and out in about 20 minutes, but that is enough time for metalheads to rejoice. Seattle's Black Breath, in four short songs, lays waste to the ears with brutal Slabbaths of riffs and manic drumming....

  A second collaboration between electronica duo Soulsaver and Mark Lanegan, this time with some help from Will Oldham and the Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes, "Broken" continues in the downbeat, bluesy, static-filled path first set down on 2007's "It's Not How Far you Fall, It's How You ...

Every once and a while an album grabs me by the balls and doesn't let go. The Diablo Swing Orchestra's new effort, Sing-Along Songs For The Damned And Delirious, is one such album...

I think before any of you even put this album into your CD player, Mp3 player, computer or wherever, you should bear in mind that only two people contribute to the making of 'Dust and Tears'...

Speak, Memory' is a product of the solo side-project of Abraham Levitan of Chicago's Baby Teeth, a quick, 8-track album that serves as a "showcase for the breadth of his influences"...

Kevin's little note down below made me realize that I needed to finish this review that had been sitting half done for about 3 months. I've got a lot of these, sometimes some prods from your peers is all it takes to make you finish.Japandroids. Yup, they are a Canadian band....

Now I wouldn’t consider myself an expert on American geography, but I’m pretty sure Point Juncture, WA, is not the same place as Portland, OR, which is where this peculiarly-named band actually come from. St...

There's something unique about this everything that has passed, but yet to come sound from My Cousin, The Emperor...

Art Brut had been kicking around on the London art-punk scene for a while before releasing this, and even though their brash sound should never have worked on record, somehow it just does...

Upon first listen to December, the new debut CD from When Summer's Gone, track 1 ("Funeral for a Friend," but not the Elton John song) comes on and you figure it's gonna be another solo acoustic affair full of sad-bastard songs with enough pop sensibility to make Dave Graziani the next David Gray...

The Fifth Nation CD, Flight, starts off with what sounds like ordinary modern vocal jazz fare, but then meanders through a surprisingly interesting mix that stays jazzy while touching on hint of pop and rock...