
Control is one of the year’s best films and I wouldn’t be surprised if a whole new generation of Joy Division fans were born in the same way new Dylan fans popped up after Don’t Look Back, or the fresh crop of Beatles fans who emerged post-Hard Days Night.

With a band like Radiohead, first impressions rarely stick. While I can’t yet hail In Rainbows as a ‘masterpiece,’ I know it sure as heck comes close.

Coupled with soft sentimental lyrics, Los Angeles’s Upgrade plays songs that often lull the listener into two divergent yet symbiotic spheres of being.

TYPE O NEGATIVE may not be as popular as they were in their heyday. But they can still perform as well as if not better than a host of nouveau-metal bands plaguing our airwaves.