At first glance, it would appear that not much has changed in the world of Kings Of Leon. The bizarre haircuts and facial hair combinations are present and correct, Caleb Followill still looks like a grunged-up Legolas from Lord Of The Rings and still occasionally yelps like his testicles have just ...
The rakish persona that is Brett Anderson, sometime Britpop nearly-hero, has finally freed itself from on-off musical partnership with Bernard Butler, guitarist of Suede and, latterly, The Tears. A de...
At this point, it's no secret that Fountains of Wayne are not the world's best lyricists. I could fill this review with forced, awkward, and downright embarrassing lines from Traffic and Weath...
After centuries of music consumption, we're still obsessed with the crescendo. From all that classical music we learned in school to modern soundtrack fodder to the banal quiet/loud/quiet dynamics...
Ricochets do nothing at all to adhere to such a hackneyed view of Norwegian popular music. Instead they are a band that sticks to the well trodden path of sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll. Tale...
Take a fey, slightly mad looking young English man boy, feed him liquidised Bowie and T-Rex throughout his formative years, let him loose in an Oxfam shop containing only the salvaged belongings of an...
Once in every blue moon, a band comes along to smash stereotypes, stamp across conventional boundary lines and tear down the invisible walls that divide musical genres. They come to unite the masses w...
False Starts And Broken Promises, the debut album from Last Man Standing couldn't be more aptly named. On first listen, it really doesn't sound like much at all, an odd mish-mash of '70s i...
It's been three years since Machine Head effectively returned to metal. But with the release of Through the Ashes of Empires, this band didn’t just meet contractual obligations, they 're...
When it quietly showed up on YouTube last November, the darkly surreal video for Prodigy's "Mac 10 Handle" felt like a glorious fluke. More than a decade ago, a teenage Prodigy-- half of...