Asia: Phoenix - PopMatters Review

Friday, 8 August 2008, 17:05 | Category : PopMatters, Reviews
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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 [...]

Eastfield/Destructors 666: Labor Omnia Vincit | PopMatters Review

Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 8:08 | Category : PopMatters, Reviews
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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 [...]

Beau Jennings: Holy Tulsa Thunder | PopMatters Review

Wednesday, 9 July 2008, 7:47 | Category : PopMatters, Reviews
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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 [...]

Lisa Cerbone: We Were All Together | PopMatters Review

Tuesday, 1 July 2008, 22:25 | Category : PopMatters, Reviews
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This stark little record is nothing really very new in musical terms but it does give goosebumps. Any recording that provokes some kind of physical response has to be worth the investment of a few dollars. It doesn’t look like this album is available in the UK yet but I guess that you could [...]

Mud: Yearbook | Music | PopMatters

Friday, 20 June 2008, 18:40 | Category : PopMatters, Reviews
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This record disturbed me, I wanted to know when it was going to do something other than what was established during the first track. When it finally did, it was something so completely different and off the wall that the rest of the album paled into insignificance. Not a good album but I would recommend [...]