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If a song can make you feel a number of emotions and take you on a magical journey of those feelings, then the writer of the words, the musicians who blend in the music and the vocalist or vocalists, who use their voices to bring those words to life have done a marvelous job

Travis, 4/12/09
House of Blues, Las Vegas
A common complaint  rock journalists  receive is that we are biased toward the music we critique. Age, taste and attitude seemingly affect our ability to judge a group fairly, and that’s why we will accuse your favorite band of totally sucking. This concern of personal bias is completely valid considering [...]

“I was born to sing for you/I didn’t have a choice but to lift you up,” Bono declares early on this album, in a song called “Magnificent.” He does it in an oddly low register, a heated hush just above the shimmer of the Edge’s guitar and the iron-horse roll of bassist Adam Clayton and [...]

RadioRNR: New Faces, New Music Volume 1 features 20 tracks from upcoming independent artists from all over the globe, including artists from Belgium, Switzerland, Norway, The UK, Australia and Switzerland.
The Compilation, put together by online radio station RadioRNR brings attention to upcoming unsigned and independent bands who are bring played on the station.
The tracks [...]

There are more important rock groups than Eagles of Death Metal, but are any of them this much fun? Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme are essentially a comedy act, sending up and celebrating that high-Seventies hybrid of garage, glam and ZZ Top: scuzz rock. On their third album, the duo are as danceable as ever, [...]

Marc Broussard’s early albums established him as the heir to Texas white-soul icon Delbert McClinton. But Keep Coming Back shows the 26-year-old Louisiana singer coming into his own. His coarse baritone fires up the Seventies-style funk of “Power’s in the People,” the disco-fied anthem “Man for Life” and the warm, strings-drenched piano ballad “Evil Things.” [...]

It’s a classic case of a teacher showing up his students. In Shine A Light, Mick Jagger invites Buddy Guy to “help us out” on the Muddy Waters cut, “Champagne And Reefer.” As he waits for his cue, Guy leers at the band with this mischievous grin – this knowing look – as if to [...]

George Thorogood got Bad to the Bone when he rolled into Tucson last week at the Ava Casino Ampitheatre with his winning-and reliable– formula of Rock & Raunch. I expected a bluesy rock show with plenty of smack talk, maximum testosterone, and minimum introspection. Of course, GT delivered exactly that.