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New Music Review: PHASES ‘For Life’

October 27, 2015 James DePaolo Comments Off

Rating: 9 / 10 Stars PHASES is: Z Berg (vocals), Michael Runion (guitars), Alex Greenwald (bass), and Jason Boesel (drums) REVIEW – For people who miss THE LIKE, (they were a band that had 2 […]

New Music Review: PUSCIFER ‘Money Shot’

October 27, 2015 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 9.0 text=true] REVIEW – 9 years ago we had the last Tool record, since that release we have had so many rumors that there was new music coming that I felt the band was trying […]

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New Music Review: HONEYMOON DISEASE ‘The Transcendence’

October 27, 2015 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 9.0 text=true] REVIEW – Honeymoon Disease is something special. Think of this, you have Deep Purple and Thin Lizzy musical style with an old school Heart meets Suzi Quatro vocal sound. This is a band […]

New Music Review: ZEBRAHEAD ‘Walk The Plank’

October 17, 2015 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 9.0 text=true] REVIEW – In 1998, I was working at an indie record store and discovered this band by an in-store promo we had. This band should have been a huge deal; I mean Waste […]

New Music Review: KYLESA ‘Exhausting Fire’

October 5, 2015 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 9.0 text=true] REVIEW – In 2001, I heard this song called “The Scarab” at Tower Records in New Orleans. I asked the store clerk, “what are you playing, and can you point me to the […]

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New Music Review: QUEENSRYCHE ‘Condition Human’

October 1, 2015 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 7.0 text=true] REVIEW – When CRIMSON GLORY first hit the scene, they had a sound and style that drew comparisons to QUEENSRYCHE. When lead singer Midnight died tragically, the band recruited Todd La Torre who […]

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New Music Review: BUTCHER BABIES ‘Take It Like a Man’

September 22, 2015 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 7.0 text=”true”] REVIEW – The BUTCHER BABIES follow up to Goliath is upon us and if you liked Goliath chances are you will dig this record, but if you were not a fan this […]

New Music Review: LYNCH MOB ‘Rebel’

September 22, 2015 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 9.0 text=true] REVIEW – If someone would have told me in 2015 George Lynch would have put out two records that will be in a lot of top ten best records of the year, I […]

New Music Review: CHRIS CORNELL ‘Higher Truth’

September 22, 2015 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 7.0 text=”true”] REVIEW – Chris Cornell’s solo work I have compared to the late Jeff Buckley. His 5th solo record is more of the same you would expect from Chris. Along with Brendan O’Brien, Brendan […]

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New Music Review: ATARI TEENAGE RIOT ‘Reset’

September 22, 2015 James DePaolo Comments Off

[usr 9.5 text=”true”] REVIEW – The ATARI TEENAGE RIOT are back. I understand that everyone wants that old school ATR attack, but bands grow and try to keep it modern and fresh, so if you were a […]