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Melvins - Nude With Boots (Ipecac)
21 June 2008On the title track, the band enter the “Freedom Rock” zone. Pure, rockin’ down the highway, straight from the 70s, classic rock radio style all the way, but so kick ass and anthemic.
Urge Overkill - Middle East (Cambridge, MA) - Wednesday, April 30, 2008
14 May 2008Nash and King, together again. Break out your martini glass and velour jacket, and join the fun.
The Cult - Born Into This (Roadrunner)
22 October 2007The Cult’s painfully disappointing Born Into This can’t simply be the result of an aging band out of touch with a musical landscape they once electrified in decades passed.
Deep Purple with Blue Öyster Cult - Bank of America Pavilion (Boston, MA) Tuesday, July 31 2007
17 September 2007Hard rock dinosaurs still roam the earth
Interview: Upgrade
27 August 2007Coupled 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 - The Avalon (Los Angeles, CA) - Friday April 17, 2007
15 May 2007TYPE 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.
Die Hipster Metal, Die!
15 March 2007Hipsterism, in general, flies directly in the face of much that is Metal: dedication, the battle of Life & Death, and a lack of irony.
Bakerton Group - Knitting Factory (New York) - Thursday, January 18th, 2007
4 February 2007Bakerton’s music sounds as if the Meters got down to hard jamming after spending a few weeks listening to early Grand Funk Railroad and a bunch of blaxploitation soundtracks.
Death of an Idol (Billy)
15 December 2006After the recent release of Happy Holidays: A Very Special Christmas Album, I have come to realize that the Billy Idol I once knew and loved is dead.
The Slits with Green Milk from the Planet Orange, Genghis Tron, and The Apes - Knitting Factory (New York) - Wednesday, November 1, 2006
29 November 2006Slits shambolic, Green Milk schizo, Genghis Tron clever, Apes still rock
Jack Rabid’s Top 10
Week of August 17
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Billy Bragg – Mr. Love & Justice (Anti)
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Bad Religion – New Maps of Hell (deluxe edition) (Epitaph)
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Ray Davies – Working Man’s Cafe (New West)
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Ron Sexsmith – Exit Strategy of the Soul (Yep Roc)
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Billie Holiday – Beautiful Ballads & Love Songs (Columbia/Legacy/SonyBMG)
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Everest – Ghost Notes (Vapor)
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Rob Dickinson – Fresh Wine for the Horses (double CD) (Fontana/UNI)
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Secret Shine – All of the Stars (Clairecords/Tonevendor)
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The Effigies – Reside (Criminal IQ)
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For Against – Shade Side, Sunny Side (Words on Music)