Album: Rugged Road Label: Stomp Records Rating: 3.5/5 With their fifth studio album, The Aggrolites have created a medley of blissful tranquility. Though it is hardly a mind blowing experience, Rugged Road is punctuated by absorbing Caribbean and Calypso rhythmic tones that hypnotically transport the listener to another time and place. Known for their
Album: Give the Drummer Some Label: Interscope/LaSalle Rating: 3/5 It would pay to know Travis Barker, because if you did you more than likely would have appeared on his debut album Give the Drummer Some. Everyone else he knows surely did. The LP contains more guests than a 24 hour telethon. Though it is populated
Album: Envy Label: Independent Rating: 3.5/5 “We want to have the freedom to make the music and the artistic choices that we want. If we can’t have that freedom, we’d rather not put anything out, which is the death of our art”. Insightful and striking, the motto of Freedom or Death is a telling
Album: Something To Die For Label: Warner/SideOneDummy Rating: 4/5 It’s difficult not to respect The Sounds. A hybrid of musical imagination, the band effortlessly incorporates aspects of indie rock, post punk, new wave and Europop into their act. Something to Die For is the band’s fourth album, and for the most part should please
Album: Collapse into Now Label: Warner Bros. Rating: 4/5 It’s been nearly thirty years since R.E.M. released their debut album, and with their fifteenth LP they have finally come full circle. After a series of lower profile releases over the past few years, R.E.M’s Collapse into Me arrives with forceful intent. A relatively short