James DePaolo, Author at INFRARED MAGAZINE

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New Music Review: DAVEY SUICIDE ‘Made From Fire’

March 4, 2017 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 8.0 text=”true”] REVIEW – DAVEY SUICIDE gives zero fucks about where the music direction is currently residing at. This is a band that at times just tears the fuck out of this musical planet […]

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New Music Review: FUNERAL FOR THE MASSES ‘Pitch Black – EP’

March 4, 2017 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 9.0 text=”true”] REVIEW – There is no substitute for youth and hunger in life. In music, the debut album (or EP) is the statement that a young band feels like they waited forever to […]

New Music Review: ADNA ‘Closure’

February 22, 2017 James DePaolo Comments Off

Rating: 9 / 10 Stars ADNA is: Adna Kadic REVIEW – The latest record by ADNA is a trip down an emotional landscape to a fragile beyond. The Swedish singer-songwriter is clearly someone who wants […]

New Music Review: EVE TO ADAM ‘Odyssey’

February 19, 2017 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 8.0 text=”true”] REVIEW – Eve to Adam is one of those bands that I feel would have fit in better in the early 90’s. Each cd they have put out has really blazed this […]

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New Music Review: SOUNDGARDEN ‘Ultramega OK (Expanded Reissue)’

February 15, 2017 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 8.0 text=true] REVIEW – There will never be another time in music history like when grunge took over the airwaves. The signs were there years earlier, but nothing can quite prepare people quite like, […]

New Music Review: MICHAEL SCHENKER ‘Michael Schenker Fest: Live Tokyo International Forum Hall A’

February 15, 2017 James DePaolo Comments Off

DVD [usr 8.5 text=”true”] CD [usr 8.0 text=”true”] MICHAEL SCHENKER as a Guitar GOD! [usr 10.0 text=”true”] REVIEW – When I first heard the news about The Scorpions wanting to do a farewell tour. I […]

New Music Review: IRON REAGAN ‘Crossover Ministry’

February 12, 2017 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 9.0 text=”true”] REVIEW – I love bands who are “in your face”. That are just loud and pissed off and say, “this is who we are fucking are, take us or leave us”. Iron […]

New Music Review: VARIOUS ARTISTS “Squidhat ’77: A Las Vegas Punk Rock Tribute To 1977”

February 6, 2017 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 10.0 text=true] Coming in April…go to SquidHat Records Website or Facebook Page and see what these great musicians are all about… REVIEW – The year of 1977. I begged my parents to take me […]

New Music Review: JUDAS PRIEST ‘Turbo 30 (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)’

January 30, 2017 James DePaolo Comments Off

Rating: 8 / 10 Stars REVIEW – Every long-term Judas Priest fan have a story of that first time they heard “ Turbo”. For me April 13th 1986 was an odd night. Bob Coburn of […]

New Music Review: TRUE MOON ‘True Moon’

January 26, 2017 James DePaolo Comments Off

Rating: 9 / 10 Stars REVIEW – This is such a weird way to start a review. Have you ever went to that place in your life? That one place that seems new to you […]