Release date: November 18, 2008 Label: Loud and Proud Tracks: 10 Rating: 4 Sammy Hagar’s Cosmic Universal Fashion was released near the end of last year to follow a long career of both solo and collaborative work by the singer, songwriter, musician, and star. Hagar has enjoyed fame and musical popularity since his affiliation with… Read more »
Release date: December 16, 2008 Label: Interscope/Doghouse Tracks: 12 Rating: 4 The All-American Rejects have remained in our peripheral vision since appearing on the big-time music scene in 2002 with their self-titled album, and managed to heighten their influence on radio DJs and listeners with 2005’s Move Along. The hit single of the same name… Read more »
Release date: December 16, 2008 Label: Island Tracks: 13 Rating: 3 Fallout Boy, initially grouped into the same genre as virtually every one-hit wonder, so-called pop-punk band, has done a great job of staying afloat these past few years and making a name for themselves that extends past the original label. With poppy, tentatively thrashy… Read more »
In Foreign News: International bookies placed odds on Obama’s inauguration phrases New US President Barack Obama was sworn in Tuesday, January 20, in front of thousands of onlookers and billions of television viewers worldwide. And much to the disappointment of long-shot bettors in the United Kingdom and other countries (including the US, where online betting… Read more »
Release date: October 7, 2008 Label: Vagrant Records Tracks: 12 Rating: 6 Life is Not a Waiting Room is the fourth album released by New Jersey’s Senses Fail; their third with Vagrant Records and also their third to have charted on international music charts. This record has charted at number one on the US indie… Read more »
At Home: Harper and Obama to meet, possibly disagree over NAFTA Although spokespeople for the Obama administration cannot give details on the agenda or specify a date, they have announced that once Barrack Obama becomes president of the United States on January 20, his first international trip will be to Canada. The current president-elect has… Read more »
Release date: October 7, 2008 Label: Universal Music Group Canada Tracks: 10 Rating: 9 Tales from the City is a full-length album from Canadian group Mobile, a band that has put some stronger emotions into this record than their previous release. Having a family member deal with breast cancer brought out a few new musical… Read more »
Released: October 27, 2008 Label: Fiction Records Tracks: 4 Rating: 9 Formed in Chiswick (London, England), this band formerly known as Fear of Flying has crossed the Atlantic with Death, a music-packed single EP that is sure to grip its listeners and either completely change their perspective on music or bring them back to a… Read more »
Released: October 7, 2008 Label: Geffen Tracks: 13 Rating: 9 ?we’re all okay until the day we’re not? (from ?Audience of One?). Simple, succinct, and although just as clever and thoughtful as any Rise Against lyric ever written, this is a somewhat melancholy, retrospective album theme for the band. Appeal to Reason is not the… Read more »
If you live in Ontario or happen to be visiting at some point this month, It’s the perfect time to take in a Flatliners? show. Since the release of The Great Awake last year on Fat Wreck Chords, the band has seen a sharp rise in its audience and people have not only been grasping… Read more »