In The Running for Album Of The Year: Silverchair’s Young Modern
Jesus god, who would have imagined that Australian’s most successful rock band ever could have progressed from sounding like a juvenile, more depressed version of Nirvana to becoming Roxy Music for the aughts? Silverchair’s latest CD, Young Modern, comes off like a heady, glossy amalgam of ’70s glam and The Beatles. And it doesn’t get much better than that for this girl.
Nick, Phil and their Sugar & Gold Cohorts
About three times a year I hear a CD that’s so fucking awesome I simply have to tell the 100 or so people who visit this website on a regular basis all about it. This month, that CD is the debut by the San Francisco-based, ‘70s influenced dance pop band, Sugar & Gold. Together for a couple of years now, Sugar & Gold is the brainchild of Nick Dobbratz (keyboards, vocals) and Phil Minnig (vocals, guitar), both formerly of blues-rock-on-handfuls-of-acid outfit Dura Delinquent. On its astoundingly funky debut, Sugar & Gold dish up the Blue-eyed soul meets modern space age bachelor pad rock like nobody’s business. My favorite songs on Crème are the smoky, seductive romp “Do It Well” and the ecstatic call to party, “Workout.” Ah, such a rush of sweet aural bliss makes me thankful I’m not diabetic. Buy their music at This Link. No parking on the dance floor.
“One is the loneliest number…” Dave Navarro, Chris Chaney, Stephen Perkins and Steve Isaacs are The Panic Channel
If you have a few minutes to gloat, take a peek at AMG’s review of the new Panic Channel CD, One and tell me I didn’t call it two months ago.
Review of The Panic Channel’s One
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Love ’em or hate ’em, there’s no denying that Jane’s Addiction was one of the pivotal bands of the alt-rock revolution of the early ’90s. They were one of the first to pull metal and underground rock fans together, first with their 1988 major-label debut, Nothing’s Shocking, and then as the creators and headliners for the first Lollapalooza tour.
Continue reading It Feels So Good to Be Right: The Panic Channel Suck It
Please enjoy this thought provoking review of Bad Religion’s The Empire Strikes First CD, by Eric J. Iannelli by clicking this link: In Perspective: America Needs More Religion.