Bigger on the Inside

I’ve been finishing a lot of homework lately. This Apocalyptica album had been lying around for months. If I had written the review immediately after receipt it would have been a lot different. The album grew on me after a while. I was very disappointed when I first heard it. The resulting review was something [...]

I had a lot of fun with this review. OK I sound a little disparaging in places but I quite enjoyed the album in a funny sort of way. It reminded me of my youth. There is also a certain irony in the fact that I noticed Amazon is packaging this album and the new [...]

So this review was a long time coming. I have been so busy of late I let a lot of these PopMatters reviews pile up. I kind of wish that I hadn’t bothered with this one. It was pretty painful to write and even more so to listen to. What can I say, ASIA just [...]

I may have failed to mention in my review that I knew the lead singer of this band when I was at school (but not when he was at school). Alan Adams once called the first band I was in “the most exciting band he had seen since the Southern Death Cult”. Since then I [...]

I had forgotten that I had done this little review. It is a very cool CD tapping the Wilco vein. I say CD but I seem to be able to find it available for MP3 download. Well worth $9 for hot August night listening…

The frontman of Cheyenne, Beau Jennings, has released this crop of tunes [...]