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REVIEWS: HOT WATER MUSIC - [ALBUM]

Hot Water Music - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: Hot Water Music - [Album]
DATE: 05-15-12
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
What Hot Water Music has done with Exister is unbelievable. Eight years ago, when they released The New What Next, the band hit an all-time high as songs like “My Little Monkey Wrench,” “Ink And Lead” and “There Are Already Roses” saw their fanbase swell (again – 2002's Caution achieved this [view more]

REVIEWS: DOWNTOWN STRUTS - [ALBUM]

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ARTIST: Downtown Struts - [Album]
DATE: 05-14-12
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
When's the last time a pop-punk band came along and, with just a few bars of one song, made you know you were a fan, dear reader? If it has been a while, the next purchase you should make is Downtown Struts' third album, Victoria! – you won't be disappointed. Here (for what seems like the first time in years), this [view more]

REVIEWS: THE VANS WARPED TOUR - [DVD]

The Vans Warped Tour - [DVD] PHOTO
ARTIST: The Vans Warped Tour - [DVD]
DATE: 05-14-12
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
As easy as it would be for a film company to lob out an “Adv-itorial” documentary capturing the excitement, history, high points and successes that The Vans Warped Tour has enjoyed over the festival's seventeen-year existence, fans would rightly balk at such a presentation because every fan knows there's more to the show than [view more]

REVIEWS: EVE 6 - [ALBUM]

Eve 6 - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: Eve 6 - [Album]
DATE: 05-14-12
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
Fourteen years ago, Eve 6 had the world on a platter for a New York minute. That moment in 1998 was incredible; “Inside Out” propelled Eve 6 to the top of the Billboard chart where they spent thirteen weeks swinging between numbers one and two, and it reached #21 on the Hot 100 Airplay. The reception of "Inside Out" [view more]

COLUMN: THE SWAG REPORT 105

The SWAG Report 105 PHOTO
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 105
with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by artists including The Intelligence, Mission Of Burma, Matisyahu, Patrick Watson, Plants and Animals, Shout Out Out Out Out and more! So much more!
DATE: 05-11-12
WRITER: Don Loder
Audio
Hang ten Junky!

I see a great big wave o' totally kick-ass SWAG comin' yer way, ya reprobates, an' there's some right righteous stuff loaded in it. No bullshit, yer gonna wanna check di week's Report out, cuz I sure did right by ya.

Dis week, I gotcha a multi-national bag o' goodies, [view more]

COLUMN: THE AGING PUNK 020

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ARTIST: The Aging Punk 020
''Play (the guitar solo from) 'Freebird!'''
DATE: 05-09-12
WRITER: G. Murray Thomas
Audio
I was at a high school party, and a friend of a friend demonstrated that he could play the guitar solo from "Freebird" note for note. Technically impressive, especially for a beginning guitarist but, even at sixteen, I knew the great guitarist was the one who played the guitar solo from "Freebird" the first time. That is the [view more]

REVIEWS: ANDRE WILLIAMS & THE SADIES - [ALBUM]

Andre Williams & The Sadies - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: Andre Williams & The Sadies - [Album]
with free mp3 download for 'One-Eyed Jack' from Night & Day by Andre Williams & The Sadies
DATE: 05-09-12
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
It sounds like it might be an outsized myth or wonderful exaggeration, but sometimes a perfect, timeless sound can only be made in one particular moment under a very specific  set of circumstances. There really can be magic in a moment and it really could only happen once in a lifetime (because happening more than once may also result in a [view more]

COLUMN: OTHER VOICES 001

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ARTIST: Other Voices 001
A different look at Born Villain by Marilyn Manson.
DATE: 05-08-12
WRITER: Chris Nelson
Audio
[Editor's note: One of the great things about music is that everybody always has a different opinion of it, and they seldom (if ever) meet. Sure – lots of people may like (or, conversely, dislike) a band or artist, but the reasons for that opinion are almost never always all the same. Everyone has an opinion and, at [view more]

REVIEWS: THE REAL MCKENZIES - [LIVE]

The Real McKenzies - [Live] PHOTO
ARTIST: The Real McKenzies - [Live]
with The Brains and Reverend Horton Heat
VENUE: Starlight Social Club - Waterloo, Canada - 05/03/12
DATE: 05-07-12
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
PHOTO: Cloud McCallum
Audio Additional Photos
The Real McKenzies had to have known they'd have the cards stacked against them when they agreed to hit the stage with The Brains and Reverend Horton Heat. The band had to have known that, slotted as the mid-card band between two rockabilly acts – one of whom is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary on this tour, no less – it [view more]

REVIEWS: MADNESS - [PHOTOS]

Madness - [Photos] PHOTO
ARTIST: Madness - [Photos]
VENUE: The Warfield - San Francisco, CA - 04/19/12
DATE: 05-07-12
REVIEW BY: Elizabeth Madason
PHOTO: Raymond Ahner
Audio Additional Photos
While the question of whether or not Camden Town's favorite sons, Madness, will record and release a new album in 2012 [it would be Madness' eleventh album and the follow-up to 2009's The Liberty Of Norton Folgate LP –ed] Madness kept a current in the pot when they announced a new series of North American dates. Ground [view more]

REVIEWS: OFF! - [ALBUM]

OFF! - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: OFF! - [Album]
with free mp3 downloads for 'Wiped Out,' 'Cracked' and 'King Kong Brigade' from OFF!'s self-titled album
DATE: 05-06-12
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
After the release and overwhelmingly positive reception of their First Four EPs set in late 2009, OFF! was left in a very peculiar position: they had successfully achieved their first goal quickly and incisively, so they needed to figure out what to do next. This, after all, was the band who famously formed to overcome stifling creative [view more]

NEWS: [STRAIGHT TO PRINT] ADAM YAUCH 1964 - 2012

[STRAIGHT TO PRINT] Adam Yauch 1964 - 2012 PHOTO
ARTIST: [STRAIGHT TO PRINT] Adam Yauch 1964 - 2012
DATE: 05-04-12
WRITER: Laura Elderly of Nasty Little Man PR
It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam "MCA" Yauch, founding member of Beastie Boys and also of the Milarepa Foundation that produced the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits, and film production and distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories, passed away in his native New [view more]

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