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Most recent Reviews and Interviews

On The Record: New Tales to Tell---A Tribute to Love & Rockets- Wax Tailor

A who's who of music greats team up to pay tribute to Love & Rockets and Kevin pays tribute to the color vinyl LP release and 7" color single. Plus he reviews the new "vinyl disc" from Wax Tailor featuring ASM.

The Fall Of Troy - In The Unlikely Event

The stylistic progression works well, combining jarring polyrhythmic lines with groove and extending beyond that. If you're an adventurous listener unfamiliar with them, this is as good a place as any to jump into their catalog.

Rammstein - Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da

For Americans, Rammstein stands out for its unique sound and strong sense of atmosphere, and these elements are on full display here. At a lean eleven tracks, this album is an almost front-to-back winner.

KISS Live in Chicago Nov 2009

Arriving in Chicago for their first show in a half decade, and the band's first performance at the United Center, it was like a entering a time machine back to the 1970's where KISS ruled arenas.

Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Singles Collection

It's tough to say anything about CCR that hasn't already been said before. But these 30 tracks, all in one set, reveal what an amazingly creative and productive outfit this band truly was at their apex.

Kelly Clarkson Live October 2009

Flexing a range of musical styles and perfect pacing, Kelly Clarkson did everything right. She is someone who through her enthusiasm and fortitude has become more than a television star, but someone who is without question, a truly significant artist.

Pithy Reviews: Karen O and the Kids (Where the Wild Things Are Soundtrack), Lita Ford, Everclear, Beatallica, Livan, State Radio, and the Riverwinds

Zane takes a quick look at new releases from Karen O and the Kids (Where the Wild Things Are Soundtrack), Lita Ford, Everclear, Beatallica, Livan, State Radio, and the Riverwinds.

Death Row Rarities: Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg

There's not a whole lot that hasn't already been said about Death Row Records's two seminal early '90s recordings, Dr. Dre's The Chronic and Snoop Doggy Dogg's Doggystyle. The label recently fished through its vaults and came up with some rare and unheard tracks from that era.

Mick Priestly (Green River Project) Interview Part II

One minute you want to introduce Mick Priestly to your mother, the next you are afraid to mingle in mixed company fearing the barrage of expletives falling from his lips. Dawn Marie goes one on one with Mick to discuss his Green River Project and more. check out Part II of this can't miss interview!

Bon Jovi - The Circle

Bon Jovi's eleventh studio record, The Circle is an enticing enigma. Playing to their strengths with a sound ready-made for arena bombast, it's immediately alluring and entrancing, but is this a positive or a negative is the question at the tip of everyone's tongue?

N.E.D. - No Evidence of Disease

Six geographically dispersed gynecologic oncology surgeons that formed No Evidence of Disease in 2008, did so in order to bring awareness and humanity to a disease that affects nearly 80,000 women in the United States alone: gynecologic cancer.

Nirvana - Live at Reading DVD/CD

It's probably a good thing that this legendary, highly sought-after concert film has been kept under wraps for seventeen years. It's now been long enough that the viewer can simply enjoy the performance for what it is.

Rock Reads: Bon Jovi - When We Were Beautiful

This book is a standalone entity and while it shares its name with the title of a new song and their documentary, it's more or less a collection of pictures and stories celebrating the band's quarter of a century together.

Will Hoge: Highway Wings and Harrowing Hearts

This was Will Hoge's first plugged-in full band show in Chicago in nearly a year-and-a-half. Arriving on-stage in a shirt, tie and a vest looking like a consummate professional, Hoge and his band shred through a 100-minute set that elated the Chicago crowd.

MorleyView The Agonist

The Agonist has flown slightly under the radar since the release of their debut Once Only Imagined in 2007 is a complete and utter mystery to me. Obviously Britney fans won't get this but if you call yourself a metal fan, this is absolute nirvana

Lucero Live

Finding middle ground between the E Street Band and Social Distortion, Lucero delivers a two-hour plus show nightly where the band tears through nearly thirty songs, through a melding of influences, proving they are a force to be reckoned with.

Ozric Tentacles - The Yum Yum Tree

Drawing heavily from early jazz rock fusion and instrumental rock, Ozric Tentacles combine live guitar, bass, and percussion with synthesizers and electronic drums into spacey textures and frequent shreddy solos.

First Look: Candella

Between touring and gigging antiMusic caught up with Lee Goodale from Candella. Some of the questions we asked lead us down a path to deeply personal moments in Goodale's life, like the songs about a close member of his family that committed suicide.

Jack Bruce & Robin Trower - Seven Moons Live

Eight of the 13 songs here are from the Bruce & Trower 2008 collaboration Seven Moons and most of those are weighted with forgettable vocal work. The instrumental breaks however feature Trower at his most fluid

U2 Live in Arizona Rocktober 2009

Before you enter the stadium, the event staff is buzzing - "Have you seen it yet? It's massive." Fans line up to take photos in front of it as if it were Mount Rushmore or a dead celebrity. It stretches half the length and reaches the ceiling of University of Phoenix Stadium

MorleyView Lita Ford and Jim Gillette

Morley Seaver delivers another can't miss interview! This time with hard rocker Lita Ford and her partner in crime Jim Gillette as they discuss Lita's comeback album and more! It's a fun interview you'll want to check out.

Michael McDermott - Hey La Hey

Taking a page from the rock era's great singer-songwriters, McDermott has a penchant for making you believe that he's in the throes of war in each of his songs as he exerts himself to the point where your speakers will tower over from the avalanche of emotions.

Blood Ties

Smashing Twilight, The X- Files and random cop shows together into a TV series may sound like a good way to cash in. But does a series about an effeminate vampire and his unconvincing beard girlfriend that does unexciting, not suspenseful private eye jobs looking for predictable "supernatural" phenomena for her brutally unqualified cop friend that looooves ham sound even close to you?

Kill Hannah - Wake Up The Sleepers

Wake Up The Sleepers will hold their own especially with the already fans of the band. The songs have a futuristic sonic feel with electronic computerized accents and Devine's almost emoish lyrics.